In short, uprooted and transplanted. Hopefully this new flowerbed of learning will not hinder ICQ access w/a firewall like the last one. But expect me absent while I take a few days to take root and assess my net access opporunities...
------------------ "...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..." -Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations
Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
The new version of ICQ is much more firewall friendly, dude.
Bah. ICQ 2000a is yet another AIM clone from what I hear. Give me 99b any day!
------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The only real problem I have w/ ICQ2000a is that it can't monitor for new e-mail. I have to check my e-mail manually from time to time, and it sucks...
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Wow. You actually have to check your e-mail manually? You poor soul. Personally, I couldn't cope with the stress, so I've hired a team of net-buddies. One checks my e-mail, another types in URL's, and another spends all day on Yahoo and AltaVista looking for porn. It saves me from doing any work at all.
------------------ "Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I always check my email manually :-P
------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The point being that I have to remember to check it every once in a while. It was a lot easier when I could just forget about it, and ICQ would let me know if anything showed up...
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
ICQ 2000a has a few niceities, but overall it's not much better than 99b. Still, I'd prefer to have it back after one of the dll's corrputed and forced me to use 99b again. That's what I get for running it on this computer I guess.
------------------ Where's the bathroom on this ship?
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
99a and 99b are the superior versions at the moment... They're the least bloated of the newer versions (the ones that can handle 450+ character messages), and can NOT be autoupdated to include the advertisements in the URL function like 2000 can. The mail check function IS fixed in 2000b, though.
I do have friends that insist that the 98x versions are better... even the old 1.x versions! (Mainly due to the later version bloat...)
------------------ "I know you believe you understand what you think this fortune says, but I'm not sure you realize that what you are reading is not what it means."
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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
I like 99b more except for a few functions on 2000a. 2000a's set up is better IMO but it has a few complicated parts... if they had a 99b and a half that'd be great.
------------------ Where's the bathroom on this ship?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
2000b has the mail checker? Hm... I wonder if it's worth risking losing my list/history to upgrade...
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
So...who else has traveled/is traveling/will travel to college this month?
Frank's at college now, so that's why he's pretty scare nowadays...
------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
I think the word is "scary." Last night I was up until 3 AM talking about blowing things up. I only remember part of the conversation, but apparently a sewer pipe full of gunpowder will be picked up by military early-warning radar if lit.
Remember, folks, if you want to meet interesting people, go to a tech college.
------------------ Frank's Home Page "I'd like to have a hard one, though..." - Fabrux
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Tsk. US students talk about bombs, guns, and "how I'll make them pay. Pay good!" whereas UK students talk about whether anyone has changed boxers this week, who's nicked the butter from the fridge, and whether it's worth spending the extra money for Red Bull and Vodka.
I'm off to Liverpool university to do, well, something. Probably. I'm moving in a couple of weeks, just after my 21st birthday. Aww.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Only some Americans blow things up to hurt people. The rest of us just blow things up for its own sake... :-)
------------------ "It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing." -Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
*boom, blast, bang*
------------------ Where's the bathroom on this ship?
