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Hi Matt, |
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Matt Harrison wrote on 03/08/09 17:19: |
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> I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. |
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> It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. |
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> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately |
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> I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. |
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> I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to |
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> connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it |
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> seems they have been retired from portage. |
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> Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC |
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> into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. |
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Installing Pidgin 2.5.8 fixed the hanging session initiation problems |
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caused by recent Yahoo network changes. |
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Cheers, Dave |
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