Re: [SLE] Gaim Misbehaving Again

From: Ben Rosenberg (ben_at_whack.org)
Date: 02/04/04

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    * Anders Johansson (andjoh@rydsbo.net) [040204 09:20]:
    >First, on Wednesday 04 February 2004 16.10, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
    >> I am running Gaim 0.75 under SuSE 9 Pro.
    >>
    >> It suddenly stopped working (will not connect, no error message, just
    >> sits at the connecting window) yesterday.
    >>
    >> I notice that YaST shows a Security Patch for 0.67 but that version
    >> of Gaim was unstable in the experience of many -- esp. given the
    >> tinkering of Yahoo. Will that security patch work OK for 0.75?
    >>
    >> Any ideas what might be tripping up Gaim this time?
    >>
    >> Thanks! dmc
    >
    >and then on Wednesday 04 February 2004 18.14, Jim Sabatke wrote:
    >> You're not the only one. It was working for me, then stopped.
    >
    >I'm beginning to think Microsoft was right: as soon as linux desktop use hits
    >a high enough number we're going to have the same virus problem as they do

    I doubt that. And here is some food for thought as far as other OS's.
    I've been using my Powerbook more and more the last couple months and
    just sshing to my Linux box for various things. Well, I use Fire on OSX
    for Instant Message services. It's quite a bit like Gaim and it's even
    distributed under the GPL, but here's the kicker. The Yahoo issue came
    up on January 8th and it took the 20 days to fix the issue even though
    Kopete and Gaim had a fix in. I'm not saying that Yahoo! hasn't been
    tweaking their protocol to screw with people since then and that Gaim
    doesn't have issues here and there. What I am saying is that the
    Linux/*BSD communities have a much better record in my book for fixing
    problems ASAP. *shrug*

    Anyone who says Linux can not have worms and trojans is either stupid or
    just uneducated. A user can execute code that could do the same thing
    this MyDoom worm is doing and as the stupid and uncaring people come
    over from the Windows world we shall have more of this. They might not
    destroy their machines because this code wouldn't have root privs but
    they can do a shitload of damage in other ways. With Linux and OSX it's
    99% user stupidity that will cause this...but with Windows I think it's
    about 50/50...stupid people vs. crappy software.

    In any event. That's my 0.02.

    -Ben 

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