Trillian is an EXCELLENT alternative to msn/icq/yahoo/i have never used AIM
It is sleek It standardises all the messaging services It doesn't have ads (at least Pro doesn't [I use pro]) It supports all decent messaging aspects of ICQ / MSN / YAHOO It doesn't need 3 (or more) different programs It is fully customisable. You can rename those EVER SO ANNOYING people so they do not have names 3 lines long full of emoticons and text made pictures. I can't stand MSN if I use it because of this.
You can consolidate programs further, such as winamp, and weather / stock news.
I can't stress enough how much I prefer Trillian to the other messaging programs.
Trillian Pro 2 doesn't give you the messages about being outdated, so I'm guessing that I won't be seeing any changes. It supports the MSN6 special pictures and other features.
Trillian Lite is free, and the pro version has good features that are well worth the money you pay for it, and certainly make it more functional than Yahoo/MSN/ICQ.
I can't stress my support for Trillian any more, and if Yahoo want to do this, then I will just stop using their service.
In Australia, where a huge proportion of our population live in major cities, and "within 100 miles / 160 kilometres" of a major city / regional centre, and the broadband situation is appaling.
There are a few decent providers out there, (a very few) the majority do nothing but deliberately trick people into long contracts at hopelessly slow plans)
In australia, $70 a month would be lucky to buy you 256/64 ADSL on a 3Gb plan, $90 a month for 512/128 with 5Gb, $150 a month for 1.5 / 256 with 8 / 9 Gb...
I have not seen any advirtisements for residential ADSL with speeds higher than these, and I don't imagine if they existed they would be 'affordable'.
Sure, there are cheap providers. if you don't mind being stuck in a pipe with too many people getting timeouts and incomprehensibly slow speeds.
Then there's the cable. With so many people now sharing the cable, at peak times, the speed just drops. And drops. The Australian Personal Computer magazine reviewed broadband and the Cable service "at peak times, you would be better off with dial up".
Not to mention it costs $90 a month for 3Gb.
I wish you 'poor americans' would stop crying. I pity those in the same situation as me, over there, but the fact is, when I thought 33.6 was pretty cool, relatives in the US had cable for hardly much more cost.
Dialup Isn't a bad thing. If you don't need broadband, you shouldn't have to pay for it, but I would sooner see a range of cheaper, slowed DSL like products adopted as opposed to the majority of dialup, because it is a far better technology.
Wireless internet is interesting, and being trialled, but the security problems are a concern.
Please, US, please, stop crying about "The state of broadband". I give it to you that you don't have a high %age of broadband uptake with the population, but that also comes with a high %age of people who don't want it, or don't need it.
My ISP (Australia Wide, NOT owned by a Telco), has recently implemented port blocking into all their accounts.
Along with this 'feature' they also enable us to enable or disable port blocking, at our convenience, in about 4 clicks and a login. If you ask me, any ISP worth buying service from, who is considering making port blocking mainstream, because it IS important, and it is something that is going to stop the vast majority of users from getting viruses/hacks that commonly exploit invulnerabilities in the more widely used OS's, will implement a similar service.
I am charged nothing, for leaving my ports open, and I run firewall software on my PCs with custom rules relating to ports because of web/ftp/ssh servers etc. It was quick and easy to toggle between blocked and unblocked, and anyone on this service can do it.
I honestly don't see why this is such a hard thing to adopt, and I would like to thank my ISP for being as reliable and friendly as they are, I know I am lucky in this situation.
I think ISPs SHOULD be the Little Man's firewall. The inexperienced user needs protection and 90% of the time will not have a clue how much work the ISP has done for them, but perhaps might comment to their friends that "No, I didn't get the Blaster Virus" when everyone else did.
Slashdot Mirror
Employees detected sending or soliciting spam like activity will be fired-
Out of a cannon, into the sun.
I wish.
not only on /. I see an ad for HP in the banner, next to the article in Yahoo there is an ad for Dell Storage Solutions
But hey, if they were to bring out the Commodore 64 eXtreme edition (See Pentium Extreme), this would promise us a 'better internet experience'!
Trillian is an EXCELLENT alternative to msn/icq/yahoo/i have never used AIM
It is sleek
It standardises all the messaging services
It doesn't have ads (at least Pro doesn't [I use pro])
It supports all decent messaging aspects of ICQ / MSN / YAHOO
It doesn't need 3 (or more) different programs
It is fully customisable.
You can rename those EVER SO ANNOYING people so they do not have names 3 lines long full of emoticons and text made pictures. I can't stand MSN if I use it because of this.
You can consolidate programs further, such as winamp, and weather / stock news.
I can't stress enough how much I prefer Trillian to the other messaging programs.
Trillian Pro 2 doesn't give you the messages about being outdated, so I'm guessing that I won't be seeing any changes.
It supports the MSN6 special pictures and other features.
Trillian Lite is free, and the pro version has good features that are well worth the money you pay for it, and certainly make it more functional than Yahoo/MSN/ICQ.
I can't stress my support for Trillian any more, and if Yahoo want to do this, then I will just stop using their service.
Cheers.
It would probably help if you read the article.
It is not exactly a large scale reactor churning out stray atomic particles.
I for one commend him on his effort, and challenge all the people who bag him to do any better or the same.
Keep up the good work, mate!
In Australia, where a huge proportion of our population live in major cities, and "within 100 miles / 160 kilometres" of a major city / regional centre, and the broadband situation is appaling.
.
There are a few decent providers out there, (a very few) the majority do nothing but deliberately trick people into long contracts at hopelessly slow plans)
In australia, $70 a month would be lucky to buy you 256/64 ADSL on a 3Gb plan, $90 a month for 512/128 with 5Gb, $150 a month for 1.5 / 256 with 8 / 9 Gb...
I have not seen any advirtisements for residential ADSL with speeds higher than these, and I don't imagine if they existed they would be 'affordable'.
Sure, there are cheap providers. if you don't mind being stuck in a pipe with too many people getting timeouts and incomprehensibly slow speeds.
Then there's the cable.
With so many people now sharing the cable, at peak times, the speed just drops. And drops. The Australian Personal Computer magazine reviewed broadband and the Cable service "at peak times, you would be better off with dial up".
Not to mention it costs $90 a month for 3Gb
I wish you 'poor americans' would stop crying.
I pity those in the same situation as me, over there, but the fact is, when I thought 33.6 was pretty cool, relatives in the US had cable for hardly much more cost.
Dialup Isn't a bad thing. If you don't need broadband, you shouldn't have to pay for it, but I would sooner see a range of cheaper, slowed DSL like products adopted as opposed to the majority of dialup, because it is a far better technology.
Wireless internet is interesting, and being trialled, but the security problems are a concern.
Please, US, please, stop crying about "The state of broadband". I give it to you that you don't have a high %age of broadband uptake with the population, but that also comes with a high %age of people who don't want it, or don't need it.
My ISP (Australia Wide, NOT owned by a Telco), has recently implemented port blocking into all their accounts.
Along with this 'feature' they also enable us to enable or disable port blocking, at our convenience, in about 4 clicks and a login. If you ask me, any ISP worth buying service from, who is considering making port blocking mainstream, because it IS important, and it is something that is going to stop the vast majority of users from getting viruses/hacks that commonly exploit invulnerabilities in the more widely used OS's, will implement a similar service.
I am charged nothing, for leaving my ports open, and I run firewall software on my PCs with custom rules relating to ports because of web/ftp/ssh servers etc. It was quick and easy to toggle between blocked and unblocked, and anyone on this service can do it.
I honestly don't see why this is such a hard thing to adopt, and I would like to thank my ISP for being as reliable and friendly as they are, I know I am lucky in this situation.
I think ISPs SHOULD be the Little Man's firewall. The inexperienced user needs protection and 90% of the time will not have a clue how much work the ISP has done for them, but perhaps might comment to their friends that "No, I didn't get the Blaster Virus" when everyone else did.