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Geek Culture / MSN glitch or bug?

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Crazy Acorn
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 02:38
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I didn't know if it is my PC that is causing the problem but when I go to MSN and go to another web page the screen locks up for a while. I wanted to know if this happened to any of you lately?

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 05:54 Edited at: 25th Dec 2010 05:54
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its not a bug, its a feature.



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Crazy Acorn
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 07:40
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errm ok??

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Indicium
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Posted: 27th Dec 2010 18:40
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Windows Live is a complete memory and cpu hog on my laptop, I refuse to run it anymore or I get frequent lock ups.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Dec 2010 23:06
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Yea Windows Live is a joke. When I tried to download MSN for my laptop and it brings up this massive Live Essentials download. And by default, MSN messenger turned into a giant webpage-looking application. Fortunately you can change it back but MS has definitely headed in the wrong direction.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Dec 2010 23:39
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Yeah, I agree. The only thing going for it is that all my friends still use it. It would take quite the app to make me and everyone else switch.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 09:42
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Personally, I miss ICQ. Then everyone used AIM for awhile, and now most of my friends use Yahoo, which is quite the memory hog. The only people I talk to with MSN are in another country.

I actually think AIM is the better network at the moment, unless I'm on Mac where I can use Adium then I don't care who's on what.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 09:59
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I use Gaim/aim facebook chat to talk to my american friends. but in russia everyone uses ICQ, its really big here they even nicknamed it "As'ka" which is a cat name lol. but the thing is it spreads a lot of spam. by the end of the month i have an annoying list of 500 people who sent me messages with attachments. these attachments used to hijack cellphone numbers since most people use icq on their phones

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 10:51
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AOL bought ICQ years ago, and I believe it uses the same network as AIM now. It used to be the only thing I used back in the mid-90s.

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Oolite
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 13:32
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What's wrong with Trillian? Relatively lightweight and supports multiple services.
I agree msn is bloated, the newest update is all kinds of awful and I haven't talked to one person who actually likes it. It also runs around 90-120mb for me which is unacceptable for a chat client.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 13:35
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It's just poorly designed (and poorly programmed) software. I switched to Miranda IM some time ago and then stopped using it altogether. If I need to chat to someone I just use Facebook now, although that's not exactly bug-free either.

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Oolite
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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 00:45
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Quote: "If I need to chat to someone I just use Facebook now, although that's not exactly bug-free either."

This I can agree with, awful to use and often crashes for me.

I personally haven't used trillian in a while as I just deal with the older msn client for now, I don't really have half as much problems with it as some people do.

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Crazy Acorn
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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 06:13
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lol looks like its not just my computer

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Jeku
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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 07:51
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Meebo is great because it's a web interface and it supports all the popular protocols like MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.


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