NO MUTHAS - one more time

2001-05-03 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International
Hi, This is the last reminder of the HOSSTRADERS Ham fest tomorrow (no, NOT next week Rob!) at the Hopkinton Fairgrounds, in Hopkinton, NH. >Access from population centers is easy, and the roads are very good. From >the south, come up I-93, take I-89 at Bow, just south of Concord, and go 14 >m

Re: Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Joseph E. Mainusch
If your family and friends are far flung and mostly all online, it's a great thing. Unfortunately, different sects of my family/friends have each discovered, and only use one different IM standard (can't we all just get along?). For the longest time this meant running AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ in

Re: Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:02:56 EDT "Kevin D. Clark" said: >> Why goto Wendy's instead of Burger King? > >Being a vegetarian (mostly), I tend to avoid both. I just like to eat real food, so I tend to avoid both as well :) -- Seeya, Paul It may look like I'm just sit

Re: Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Jeffry Smith
I don't use IRC, AIM, Jabber, or any of that too much, but I can see one good use for it (out of probably many, but this is one I have experience with): education. I took an on-line course a while back, seminar type. Once a week, the entire group (all across the US) got together on an IM-ty

Re: Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > From: "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What do people use instant messaging for anyways? > > And now instant messaging is all the rage. So, I take it that with > > instant messaging a whole group of people can > > interrupt^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsend you a messag

RE: Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
I went without using any IM for about a year and a half while we were without a serious internet connection, but now that I'm set up again I'm getting back into IM. To address Dave's point first (because it sets me up to address Kevin), the only reason I see for people to use AOL is if the conten

Instant Messaging (was: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux )

2001-05-03 Thread Dave hardy
My little story: When my wife and I were still dating, she lived up here in Vermont and I was living down in Massachusetts, about 250 miles apart. So during the week we used AOL's IM to communicate and saved ourselves a bundle in phone calls, plus we used email. That was five years ago and n

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Thomas Charron
Yes. This is primarily becouse they are only using a small subset of the aim.exe to provide the checksum capabilities, and all current AIM clients can handle this 'feature'. In the future, however, they do have the capabilities to check virtually any file that is distributed with AIM and req

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Thomas Charron
From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > > I just got AOL 6.0 in the mail the other day with 1000 free houts. > If I remem

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Paul Lussier wrote: > >"AIM for Linux is not blocked. We have blocked Gaim and Jabber (against my > >wishes) but never our own client. > Greg, et al., > In short, it clearly states that they block Jabber, but not there own > client, and not gaim. However, they *did* block gaim for a short >

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
As with everything else to come out of AOL, this is wrong. Basically, everything that he said is incorrect. As I said, I have AOL running on Linux using Codeweavers wine pre-release 3. So there goes that sentence. However, I must admit that your contact needs to learn double-talk better: " Even us

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Lussier
I just wish that Jabber would get there a little quicker. Or at least have a few more Jabber servers. Hey, there's an idea. How about we have a GNHLUG-sponsored Jabber server? Would someone who has a fast (M1/DSL) connection be willing to set one of those up? Maybe we could then contribut

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Benjamin Scott wrote: > I've also heard rumors of a native AOL client for Linux. There was one. It worked for about a week before AOL managed to block it out. They blocked it because if they allowed Linux users to have access to their network, that would somehow make them less secure. Go figur

Re: AOL and AIM on Linux

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:38:33 EDT "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >My wife uses AOL 5.0. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> What version of AOL did you use? [...snip...][ >> I used Samba to move my windows 95 installed AOL 5.0 over Hey, I just got AOL 6.0 in the mail the other day w

Re: DirectX for Linux? (was: Windows on Linux)

2001-05-03 Thread Michael O'Donnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I only keep my personal Win box around for certain games A guy I work with does the same thing. He calls it his Wintendo... ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following te