Adium For Windows

Little_Tiger · Post by **Little_Tiger** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:43 pm

The_Tick wrote:
Little_Tiger wrote:
The_Tick wrote:Can miranda do aim, msn, jabber, and yahoo?
and more ...
It's completely based on plugins!....so if there a jabber plugin it will work a sametime..it will work....

and yes..the 5 mayors clients are "built in"...
ICQ,AIM,YAHOO,MSN,IRC..and of course Jabber..

thanks
-=LT=-
hmm.. two issues I guess:

1) not seeing tabs right off the bat here..

2) How can I connect to multiple accounts on the same protocol?

the tabs are just like adium at the bottom

..preference you should find it..

and second
Just copy paste the (let's say you want icq with double) ...just copy paste
icq.dll ...and make an icq2.dll...(just by copy paste)..and there you go..the second account

..

thanks
-=LT=-

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:02 pm

Little_Tiger wrote: the tabs are just like adium at the bottom ..preference you should find it..

a little help, not finding it

LeMignonBiscuit · Post by **LeMignonBiscuit** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:28 pm

Ethion wrote: Mac OS 8.1 Beta

Well, a "secret" version of Mac OS 8 was done for x86.
But they never released it to the public.

Never heard about that one, but I do know that back when Mac OS X was being developed, and before that even, you could run it on x86.

The last "version" of Mac OS X to do so, if I recall correctly, was Rhapsody Developer Release 2. Before that NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP were available for x86.

So in theory Mac OS X could work on a PC... but it would take quite a bit of work and time. But it will never happen.

(Someone feel free to correct or add to this, this is just what I can remember off the top of my head.)

Little_Tiger · Post by **Little_Tiger** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:45 pm

The_Tick wrote:
Little_Tiger wrote: the tabs are just like adium at the bottom ..preference you should find it..
a little help, not finding it

are you using "tabsrmm.dll"?..
if not..here is the link

http://tabsrmm.sf.net/alpha/tabsrmm-test.zip

thanks
-=LT=-
(Im on mac, I Don't use miranda anymor

..so I don't know the things on top of my head..and my pc is in the oter room, too lazy to go and check..it's 3 doors down

:D)

wunderwood · Post by **wunderwood** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:34 am

Adium for Windows? NEVER!!

Adiumy loves his Mac way too much for that:

sdh · Post by **sdh** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:38 am

VIVA LA WINBLOWS RESISTANSÉ !

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:53 am

It's actually not too bad guys. Miranda itself probably isn't my style and I'll be moving back to gaim tomorrow, but it was fun to play around with it.

btw, you guys need to drop the windows hate..

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:15 am

The_Tick wrote:btw, you guys need to drop the windows hate..

Windows is fine, but Mac OS X is BRILLIANT

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:38 am

The_Tick wrote:btw, you guys need to drop the windows hate..

Sorry Tick, but I'm starting to get really tired of dealing with all of the calls at work from Windows users that have problems that would never happen on a competent system, whether it be OS X, Linux, or otherwise.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:39 am

TheSilverFox06 wrote:
The_Tick wrote:btw, you guys need to drop the windows hate..
Sorry Tick, but I'm starting to get really tired of dealing with all of the calls at work from Windows users that have problems that would never happen on a competent system, whether it be OS X, Linux, or otherwise.

Well, look at it from a switchers perspective. If you are already so interested in another platform that you may want to get a new machine when you can justify it, what do you do in the meantime? Personally I used themes and looked at different areas to see what the whole "mac" community was about. I was tiring of the linux rtfm crowd, didn't see that with mac. I didn't see people who were just mean. I saw a nice group of folks.

Now if you go tell people to "just get a mac", don't you realize they've already figured out that if they want to run "adium on windows", need to create a forum thread to ask about it, etc, that they probably need to get a mac/wait a long time/it'll never happen.

So instead of saying (with the exception of one or two people here) that "hey, you can't, but you can do this in the meantime and it's sorta the same", you go "just get a mac".

Another point I'd like to make is the fact that a lot of mac people tend to complain about windows games not coming to mac. But then they praise the one or two companies who do out of a group of 10000. In the meantime, I haven't seen many pc'ers go "just get a dell". So lay off on this crap, or don't post in threads asking for windows stuff.

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:43 am

Let's all get along.

We <3 Macs. We <3 People Who <3 Macs. We Also <3 People Who <3 Adium Even If They Do Not <3 Macs Yet.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:45 am

evands wrote:Let's all get along.

We <3 Macs. We <3 People Who <3 Macs. We Also <3 People Who <3 Adium Even If They Do Not <3 Macs Yet.

I don't <3 some mac users yet. But I'm trying! That Adam guy, yeesh!

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:52 am

The_Tick wrote:
evands wrote:Let's all get along.

We <3 Macs. We <3 People Who <3 Macs. We Also <3 People Who <3 Adium Even If They Do Not <3 Macs Yet.

I don't <3 some mac users yet. But I'm trying! That Adam guy, yeesh!

If you can get past the odd smell, he's not that bad, really. Well, the odd smell and the axe murdering tendencies.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:55 am

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
evands wrote:Let's all get along.

We <3 Macs. We <3 People Who <3 Macs. We Also <3 People Who <3 Adium Even If They Do Not <3 Macs Yet.

I don't <3 some mac users yet. But I'm trying! That Adam guy, yeesh!
If you can get past the odd smell, he's not that bad, really. Well, the odd smell and the axe murdering tendencies.

No problem with the axe thing. The smell did bother me. But did you see his face?! OMG!

wunderwood · Post by **wunderwood** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:59 am

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
evands wrote:Let's all get along.

We <3 Macs. We <3 People Who <3 Macs. We Also <3 People Who <3 Adium Even If They Do Not <3 Macs Yet.

I don't <3 some mac users yet. But I'm trying! That Adam guy, yeesh!
If you can get past the odd smell, he's not that bad, really. Well, the odd smell and the axe murdering tendencies.

Moral of the story. Windows users are most people. Linux users are nice people. And Mac users are smelly, windows hating, axe murderers.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:00 am

wunderwood wrote:
evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
I don't <3 some mac users yet. But I'm trying! That Adam guy, yeesh!
If you can get past the odd smell, he's not that bad, really. Well, the odd smell and the axe murdering tendencies.
Moral of the story. Windows users are most people. Linux users are nice people. And Mac users are smelly, windows hating, axe murderers.

That face! OMG!

Little_Tiger · Post by **Little_Tiger** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:56 pm

this was fun to read!!..
And Tick,
Why Gaim, if you are using Mac OSx? Just curious

...
Miranda isn't a "great" progam if you are looking for "beauty" in a program. If so go with trillian.
Miranda Has alot more to offer than trillian.

....I used to help trillian a lot!..not anymore, because of the ppl their (the real trillian ppl..meaning dev/mod/admin)....
so that is why miranda

and about the fight,

Can someone really come and tell me, why the window haters..
(leave the monopoly of BG out, leave the update alot out...and anything that isn't touching the OS self)....
because I was a windows user...I even tried longhorn, and it has alot of good potentials..
I've work with redhat and suse (linux)..and they are great OS's..but for a first time user it's a hell of a job....I've tried LINSPIRE.....
and now I'm on Mac OSx...but I will never say I hate windows....

why then I came to Mac OSx....because it simple more "beautiful" OS..
I love grahics designing..and I love the way mac render 3d..ect....and the mac design self is awesome

....

thanks
-=LT=-

The Tick any more question...IM if you want

...I will answer..

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:48 pm

My personal explanation of why I dislike Windows (and Microsoft in general, excluding all monopoly/"evil empire" stuff, as you requested):

With Windows I feel like the OS wants to run the computer for me. It sees me as someone who is privileged to be able to have Windows run their life for them. Microsoft loves to read my mind, except that it can't. The biggest problems I have are with MS Word (with Win2000 Pro in this case). I've searched through the prefs in detail and almost always cannot find the pref to turn off how it does all kinds of crap even when you don't want it to. Like if you're making a list, and you number 1., then hit enter or whatever, it indents the damn thing and screws it all up. And although it could be nice how it automatically fixes my errors, like capitalizing, sometimes I don't want it, and I can't find how to turn that off either. I'm sure Apple products do a little of that too, I probably just don't realize it as much since I'm subconsciously more inclined to notice bad things about products I already don't like (Windows).

Ignoring all the security stuff (since it can be argued that Macs would have viruses etc. if they were more popular), I also don't like the way Windows works with software you have installed. In order to uninstall something, you have to open the Add/Remove programs control panel. Often software comes with its own uninstaller. In the case of adware (which I've often tried to remove using Add/Remove), each adware program can basically do whatever it wants when you try to uninstall it. I've had programs make me fill out a survey on why I dislike their software, before I can actually uninstall them. Any OS that allows this to happen is completely ridiculous in my opinion.

Thoughts?

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:57 pm

I agree with everything except the security issue. It IS a lot harder to make a virus capable of doing things that Windows viruses do, and to get them running on Mac OS X, even if you wanted to. The system as a whole is a ton more secure, and really the only way to get a virus of that sort to work on OS X is to have a user with administrative privileges run it and enter their password. Getting a virus that can mess with the inner workings to install itself on OS X is next to impossible. That's one of the reasons, along with others that you already listed, that I don't like Windows.

wunderwood · Post by **wunderwood** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:32 pm

I don't "hate" windows, but I would never use it if I don't have to. I agree with everything that had been said, especially about windows thinking it's smarter than you. But for me, Windows just crashes and had problems way too much. Truth be told I used to used windows only until about 4 years ago. I still use it every few weeks. You have to use 3rd party stuff to do a lot of things, and it all seems to conflict. I had a huge problem with a wireless card in a dell laptop that didn't agree with xp. Also the file structure for windows is a mess. I have no idea where anything is. It's not that windows is bad, it's just that OS X is better in so many ways. And a lot of people say that not as many programs are out for mac, but iLife has something for everyone, and their is nothing even close to it for windows. For most users, everything they could need is available on the mac, and often easer to use. Their are more reasons but those are the highlights.