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Randomness ([personal profile] randomness) wrote2005-08-30 06:55 pm
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AIM Express has some serious handshaking issues.

At least, it does from the library cluster here.

Not particularly usable.
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[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2005-08-30 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You have an AIM account? Mine's my first name and last name as one word. Not that you can find me from that computer.

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-08-30 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I'm attempting to set up a buddy list, but it is not going well.

I'll IM you if I ever get this thing to work.

[identity profile] uberjay.livejournal.com 2005-08-30 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
My aim login is the same as my LJ username.

AIM express is pretty terrible—I guess you can't get away with installing a real client on the library cluster...

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-08-31 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yah, it won't let me install anything.

Which is good, because it means it's less likely someone's installed BackOrifice or something, but unhelpful in the current circumstance.

[identity profile] starheptagon.livejournal.com 2005-08-31 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not usable" as in "completely dead"? If so, it might be because AOL recently killed the TOC protocol servers in a political move, breaking several clients, including some that they had written themselves.

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-08-31 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No, "not usable" does not mean "completely dead", at least not in this case. If it did, it would be easier, because I would give up. :)

However, it works just poorly enough that I fought with it for a while entering in screennames.

[identity profile] holmes-iv.livejournal.com 2005-08-31 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You may be interested to know (or indeed, you may already know) that with appropriate setup, you can in fact use AIM from many phones via text-message. Not that I've been racking up the TXT charges this month playing around with stuff like this, or anything...

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-08-31 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yah, I looked at that. My provider isn't on the list of supported providers.

Just as well, really.

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-09-02 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Update. I seem to have gotten it to work despite my provider not being one of the supported ones.

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-09-03 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
So, do you know if there's a way to initiate IM conversations using AIM's SMS gateway? Thus far I can reply to but not initiate IMs.
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