CS students of VUB University of Brussels did this same thing some years ago for the shopping carts in the local Colruyt shop. AFAIK it was also released in the wild.
As an aMSN developper I can say this ain't a bug but sure is a feature. It gave us some headaches as since MSN Messenger 7.0, the official client also opens a SwitchBoard session to you if you come online to request your avatar picture if it's not updated on their side. As before, this was our sign a user started a conversation, we had a lot of windows popping up from 7.0 users. This is fixed now though. Now we open the chatwindow when the "user is typing..." notification comes:).
Slashdot Mirror
CS students of VUB University of Brussels did this same thing some years ago for the shopping carts in the local Colruyt shop. AFAIK it was also released in the wild.
As an aMSN developper I can say this ain't a bug but sure is a feature. It gave us some headaches as since MSN Messenger 7.0, the official client also opens a SwitchBoard session to you if you come online to request your avatar picture if it's not updated on their side. As before, this was our sign a user started a conversation, we had a lot of windows popping up from 7.0 users. This is fixed now though. Now we open the chatwindow when the "user is typing ..." notification comes :).
Yeah, 20Gb _is_ small :)