Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:49:42PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Problem I've had with GAIM on WinXP Pro (pardoning the OT issues) is > that the installer fails with what appears to be a Win32/16 problem in > the command interpreter. I found some MSFT KB articles referencing > solutions in NT

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > > company

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-01 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:05:40PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Wednesday 2004-06-30 03:40 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of > > us (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at > > gabfest.net (thanks a lot, jamin!), f

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 2004-06-30 03:40 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of us > (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at gabfest.net > (thanks a lot, jamin!), for a proof-of-concept; we'll hopefully > migrate to our own server soon.

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > company uses yahoo IM to do half of our work, and i don't think > > they're open to switching. > > O

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:40:11AM +0700, deb_milist wrote: [...] | then he set jabber server up for internal network purpose. | we'd got a bunch ( again ) of complaints from those users that must | migrate to | jabber with various silly arguments : | "there's no cute emoticons FWIW emoticons are

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread deb_milist
Nori Heikkinen wrote: see my original post: > i tried upgrading to the latest debian release of the yahoo > messenger off their website, but that doesn't work for me, > either. ( gee ) read the manual . :-)  ;-) OT : several months ago, in my office, there's a bu

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:38:22PM +0200, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz insinuated: > El Jueves, 24 de Junio de 2004 19:48, Nori Heikkinen escribió: > > hey all, > > > > noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it > > impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. > > [

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:04:10PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:21:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, Derrick > 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > | Set up a Jabber server > > > > This is the easy part. > > > > | and start

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > >> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what ha

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 24 de Junio de 2004 19:48, Nori Heikkinen escribió: > hey all, > > noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it > impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. [1] -- > switching to scs.yahoo.com from scs.msg.yahoo.com -- doesn't work for > me, as po

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yeah? this wouldn't put undue load on you? Not really, no, as long as we're not talking about your entire company or anything like that (mostly for reliability issues, house full of roommates). > it woul

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:21:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > | Set up a Jabber server > > This is the easy part. > > | and start migrating your friends to it. > > This can be nearly impossible to do. >

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | | > has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? | | I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you rely on | the whims of a proprietary

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:19:54AM +0700, deb_milist insinuated: > Erik Steffl wrote: > > >Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > >>noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it > >>impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. > >>[1] -- > > > > > > > >>has anyone else b

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:58:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated: > Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > >> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what h

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: >> noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it >> impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. >> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > >usually the yahoo web messen

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >> has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you rely on > the whims of a proprietary vendor. Set up a Jabbe

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
Erik Steffl wrote: Nori Heikkinen wrote: noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. [1] -- has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? usually the yahoo web messenger works, good as an eme

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:28:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:37, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > company uses yahoo IM to do half of our work, and i don't think > they're open to switching. Ouch! That's not a great situation. > i'll propose it to my boss, but people

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:37:59PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you > rely on the whims of a proprietary

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:37, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? > > I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you rely on > the whims of a proprietary vendor. Set

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. [1] -- ... has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? usually the yahoo web messenger works, good as an emergency until the oth

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you rely on the whims of a proprietary vendor. Set up a Jabber server and start migrating your friends to it. --