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Jan. 30th, 2010 03:54 pmI 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.
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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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