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I tried to install AIM last night.
That was a bad idea.
Back before my hard drive committed suicide, I had iTunes on this laptop, which is a used model from 2004/ish. It had problems. It would freeze randomly with a "boop!" sound while I was moving the mouse/typing, and then the screen would freeze and I'd have to wait it out or reset. This happened distressingly often. So did BSOD.
After I got a new hard drive and re-installed everything except iTunes, this stopped happening. Now and again the computer would tell me that Firefox is not responding, and sometimes it would be slow, but it worked a lot better overall.
When I installed AIM, the first thing that happened was that all of my Firefox windows and all of their tabs closed, and for some reason History doesn't have a record of them. It's a good thing I'd saved the fic I was working on, otherwise I would have been a lot more than just irritated. I tried to make an account, and after registering I tried to log in, only to find that the username/password combo wasn't working. And then the computer froze with a "boop!", and I uninstalled the whole thing.
So I think chat and all its attendant glories aren't for me. Apparently you can get to it through Meebo, but you need to have an IM account in the first place.
That was a bad idea.
Back before my hard drive committed suicide, I had iTunes on this laptop, which is a used model from 2004/ish. It had problems. It would freeze randomly with a "boop!" sound while I was moving the mouse/typing, and then the screen would freeze and I'd have to wait it out or reset. This happened distressingly often. So did BSOD.
After I got a new hard drive and re-installed everything except iTunes, this stopped happening. Now and again the computer would tell me that Firefox is not responding, and sometimes it would be slow, but it worked a lot better overall.
When I installed AIM, the first thing that happened was that all of my Firefox windows and all of their tabs closed, and for some reason History doesn't have a record of them. It's a good thing I'd saved the fic I was working on, otherwise I would have been a lot more than just irritated. I tried to make an account, and after registering I tried to log in, only to find that the username/password combo wasn't working. And then the computer froze with a "boop!", and I uninstalled the whole thing.
So I think chat and all its attendant glories aren't for me. Apparently you can get to it through Meebo, but you need to have an IM account in the first place.
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