Messenger Service sucks (get rid of it)

[vampireuk]

So why did you post in it?

 

[Eagle]

Well the thread got off topic, but its still not off topic from the forum its in so its just gonna have to stay open.

I use Trillian too, cept the IRC function on it sucks.

 

[The Khan Artist]

I use Trillian too, cept the IRC function on it sucks.

mIRC is still the best IRC program, and I think it's going to be that way for a while.

 

[nephalim]

Is Windows Messenger (NOT the service, I forget exactly what it's called...it's like MSN's version of AIM,) part of MSN? Cause I definetely have that installed and I installed a streamlined SP1 corp CD.

 

[Clements]

Windows Messenger is almost the same as MSN messenger.

I use MSN Messenger 6.0 currently, because that's what my friends that I chat to all use. No real point to getting others since they don't use those.

 

[AlphaWolf]

mIRC is still the best IRC program, and I think it's going to be that way for a while.

Maybe the best for windows...there are various IRC clients for linux are like mIRC only with every single feature that you could possibly want yet mIRC wont ever include.

Speak of IRC though, I think the majority of people who use instant messengers just haven't heard of IRC before or something. Instant messengers remind me of a realy annoying neighbor who likes to knock on your door every two minutes just to chat about a boring subject that you hardly give a shit about. IRC is instant messaging, only without the annoying neighbor part.

 

[The Khan Artist]

Maybe the best for windows...there are various IRC clients for linux are like mIRC only with every single feature that you could possibly want yet mIRC wont ever include.

I tried xchat and kvirc or something like that, and didn't quite like them. Mozilla's IRC proggy sucks. And I never was able to get into BitchX.

So I installed mIRC in Wine, and was happy.

 

[nephalim]

text-based irc for linux forever!

All those scripts were so much fun...but being able to have lots of channel and msg windows open is a necessary evil.

I used to be able to "talk" irc...communicate with the server without a client. I was one of the very first who started playing with IRC's standards, and I had a very small irc network and had my very own script which I made by hand which allowed you to play god. What it did was hook in a fake IRC server to the network (you obviously need permissions from the connecting server to do this,) and you were really the server. It allowed you to do ALL sorts of things that the EFNet IRC standard did not allow. Now there are all sorts of "hacked" server standards, hell every network is different. I was a pioneer, even if my efforts were futile! Damn, I wish I still had a copy of that script, I put alot of work into it and it was loads of fun.

 

[Tagrineth]

WinXP Pro. Corp. is the corporate edition that I ah... procured some time ago. It doesn't require activation =)

It didn't come with MSN or MSN Messenger or anything like that.

 

[nephalim]

WinXP Corp does indeed come with MSN Messenger! I had it automatically installed with both a regular corp and a sp1 corp install.

 

[Tagrineth]

And yet, I don't have anything related to MSN on my system, never have, and never will. Funky. :flowers:

 

[AlphaWolf]

WinXP Corp does indeed come with MSN Messenger! I had it automatically installed with both a regular corp and a sp1 corp install.

Are you sure you didn't install corp first and then upgrade it to SP1? I can confirm exactly what Tagrineth is saying. (You know what will probably happen though, is MS may add MSN back in a future revision/service pack, they always do crap like that. The later revisions of SP1 may have added it back already...)

 

[nephalim]

It was bundled, i'm positive. God knows what Micro$oft does, though.

 

[The Khan Artist]

MSN Messenger came with my install. Here's what I did:

Buy XP Pro (non-SP1) OEM edition from NewEgg
Download and patch it with corpfiles.zip
Make a corp key with the BlueLight keygen

I used it that way for a few months. It had MSN Messenger. About 2 weeks after SP1 came out, I downloaded the network installer, and patched my CD with the slipstreamy-thingy. I then reinstalled Windows on my PC from scratch with the new CD.

That installation is what I am running now. It most definately had MSN Messenger with it.

I prefer GAIM, anyways.