80% of the show is them laughing at their own jokes
It's the Car Talk edition of UppityNegroPundit.com, and we're not here to talk about cars, car repair, nor the latest release of AOL Instant Messenger for Linux, which features:
File Transfer Typing Meter in IM window Displays idle time Supports all windows sounds Drag & Drop support for File Transfer
Couldn't get Gaim to connect last night, so I tried the genuine article instead. The Debian version worked not at all, but the tarball ran fine. Except for crashing once. And I'm still not a very good conversationalist (apologies to them what became aware of this while trying to chat last night), but I suppose you can't blame the software for that.
The release page has a date of November 26th, so this is not only old news, it's very possibly been covered to death elsewhere. I'm still catching up on things, I'm afraid, mostly because I was very hesitant about trying anything on Heather's Mac last week. I've not really used one of the things since I left U of I, after all.
Speaking of which, anyone had any experience using MSN's DSL with a Mac? I managed to get the computer and modem/router talking to one another, but the status page insisted the DSL was up but the PPP was down. Since the unhelpful tech support personnel and pages insisted that OS X was a no-go, I'm guessing there's some little piece of access software they neglected to either include with the Windows cd and instructions that came along with the modem, or to mention on their site.
I could, of course, be entirely wrong about this, and just shouldn't have been messing with operating systems I don't understand.
Which would be all of them.
Closer to home, reverted to the Big Blue Bar MT style because I always liked it better, and removed a few IP bans that seem to have served their purpose.
Considered adding the show/hide inline comments code that Dru (among others) put in a while back, but figured this could seriously increase download times for the people who aren't reading the comments.
Their loss.
Very few of them are us laughing at our own jokes.
Update: Am also doing Terrible Things to the links in the sidebar. They're Terrible because World Wide Web Offline Explorer does not play well with Movable Type apparently.