* 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 -- Linux User #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."