I'm fixing a woman's computer. She still uses dial-up.

Interesting fact: it takes an hour to download Firefox on a dial-up connection.

I didn't know AOL was still around. Who doesn't know how intrusive it is?
Hmm.

AbbeySomeone: I didn't know AOL was still around. Who doesn't know how intrusive it is?
Hmm.

I am still using my 700,000 free hours I racked up in the 90s.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: Interesting fact: it takes an hour to download Firefox on a dial-up connection.

I hope you're charging by the hour.

One things that's still not clear to me is whether this only affects people using the official AOL IM client, or also third-party clients like Pidgin and Adium. Since the logged message storage is server-side, it could potentially work either way.

lots use AIM just not the client.. i.e. iChat users. I installed the latest aim to my phone though and it enabled the whole logging thing, and apparently even when I IM people from my mac they apparently get a humourous warning saying:

almandot is using a new version of AIM that stores conversation history so they can see their chats wherever they're signed into AIM (desktop, mobile, aim.com). If you don't want your messages stored, you can ask almandot to take the conversation "off the record" or use the new AIM so you can do so yourself. Visit preview.aim.com/.faq for more information.

did I mention this was all apparently yet? apparently not.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: I'm fixing a woman's computer. She still uses dial-up.

Interesting fact: it takes an hour to download Firefox on a dial-up connection.

Why would you do that? Don't they have flash drives where you're from?

brigid_fitch: I'm a recruiter and when I see an AOL email address on a resume, it's a pretty reliable indication that the candidate won't be worth shiat. So far, it's correct 9 out of 10 times. I'm not wasting my time on an 11th candidate, so that figure will stand.

/Had a resume just last week "chula69xx[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]LOA[* image 7x13]com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69? Into the circular file.

Had a client sign a contract, and when we went to submit with court, her contact email was something like c­r­azy­b­ia­t­ch­69­loa­com

Good stuff...go pull some of the old "To Catch A Predator" videos, most of those guys have some form of "Long" "stud" "69" combination, along with an @Aol address tag.

brigid_fitch: I'm a recruiter and when I see an AOL email address on a resume, it's a pretty reliable indication that the candidate won't be worth shiat. So far, it's correct 9 out of 10 times. I'm not wasting my time on an 11th candidate, so that figure will stand.

/Had a resume just last week "chula69xx[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]LOA[* image 7x13]com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69?
Into the circular file.


/hot like the special file cabinet

brigid_fitch: Had a resume just last week "chula69xx[nospam-﹫-backwards]LOA*com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69? Into the circular file.

That was my buddy :C Charles Underwood from L.A. He was born in 1969 :/

Upgrade to ICQ.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: I'm fixing a woman's computer. She still uses dial-up.

Interesting fact: it takes an hour to download Firefox on a dial-up connection.

Heh. My aunt did that with her laptop (except it didn't have a modem built-in, so it didn't have internet at all). We ended up going up to the local B&N, and sitting there for about 2 hours just downloading a couple GB of programs, updates, etc.

//Also, why does Windows 7 refuse to install her printer drivers off the bloody driver cd? It keeps trying to do that thing where it hits up the internet for the latest version, but since she has no internet, it sits there and says "Driver Not Found". THE DRIVER'S ON THE CD, YOU [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] BELGIUM [redacted] [redacted].

What's the horror with prefetching URLs? So long as it's just caching them for the user to make things-quicker feeling, and not keeping it forever? Sounds like people freaking out over something they don't entirely understand.

bigmattress: brigid_fitch: I'm a recruiter and when I see an AOL email address on a resume, it's a pretty reliable indication that the candidate won't be worth shiat. So far, it's correct 9 out of 10 times. I'm not wasting my time on an 11th candidate, so that figure will stand.

/Had a resume just last week "chula69xx[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]LOA[* image 7x13]com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69?
Into the circular file.

[www.showbiz411.com image 450x307]
/hot like the special file cabinet

Avoid hiring unlucky people by immediately tossing half the CVs into the bin.

VictoryCabal: unyon: Really? There are very few rural locations here (Alberta) that don't have access to/use NAN wifi service, and we have hills and mountains and shiat.

Yeah, but that's Canada. Here in the States, we've decided that we can't have nice things because that's just like Hitler.

I'm pretty sure that is the only time I will use the smart or the funny button. Well said.

My brother, my parents and I pulled our old AIM accounts out of the attic to do a three-way video iChat after Christmas. For some reason, our gchat accounts weren't doing the trick.

i still use aim... its just an older client. ill probably keep using it till i have some real reason to switch.

"We still recommend that AIM users do not switch to the new version as it introduces important privacy-unfriendly features," a statement by the EFF explains.

Luckily it's not difficult to convince an AOL user not to upgrade to something new.

brigid_fitch: I'm a recruiter and when I see an AOL email address on a resume, it's a pretty reliable indication that the candidate won't be worth shiat. So far, it's correct 9 out of 10 times. I'm not wasting my time on an 11th candidate, so that figure will stand.

/Had a resume just last week "ch­u­la69­xxL­OA­com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69? Into the circular file.

At a previous job I forwarded all the resumes that came in over the interwebs. I always likes the ones that read something like 4­20s­m­okeitup­2­47l­o­a­co­m.

Nope, no one will get that reference you brilliantly sneaky basterd.

Jack31081: My brother, my parents and I pulled our old AIM accounts out of the attic to do a three-way

Stopped reading at this point.

I'm guessing my generation, the people who were in middle school when AIM was "cool" still use it. Why, what's the new thing? Skype, I guess? Or just texting on your phone?

AIM is still used a lot for mobile messaging, subby.

And there's always been at least local caching, it's actually one of the reasons I used to prefer that client to most of the other offerings. For all the "nyeh, privacy, nyeh" complaints, the usefulness of being able to ctrl+f on your old conversations to look up that address you were given or whatever is one of the primary things that makes texting better than just using the damned phone.

Speaking of which, if privacy is a major concern why don't you use the damned phone? It doesn't log shiat, apart from a record that the call occurred.

I use aim on trillian and pidgin. Im not paying $20 for a texting plan on top of my data plan.

EvilJordan: Jack31081: My brother, my parents and I pulled our old AIM accounts out of the attic to do a three-way

Stopped reading at this point.

Fair enough.

I work for a company that supplies dial-up service and crappy software, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

moothemagiccow: I use aim on trillian and pidgin. Im not paying $20 for a texting plan on top of my data plan.

How is unlimited text not already part of any plan containing data?

kenryoku_one: bigmattress: brigid_fitch: I'm a recruiter and when I see an AOL email address on a resume, it's a pretty reliable indication that the candidate won't be worth shiat. So far, it's correct 9 out of 10 times. I'm not wasting my time on an 11th candidate, so that figure will stand.

/Had a resume just last week "chula69xx[[nospam-﹫-backwards] image 7x13]LOA[* image 7x13]com" Really? AOL's bad enough but you're job-hunting so you're going w/the email address that's Spanish slang for sexy & 69?
Into the circular file.

[www.showbiz411.com image 450x307]
/hot like the special file cabinet

Avoid hiring unlucky people by immediately tossing half the CVs into the bin.

WOW That had me laughing alone at my computer for a good few minutes.

/yay for flu med

what`s AOL? (apart from a supplier of coffee cup coasters)

Shadow Blasko: looks over at trillian interface.

No.

At least it tells me when I am signed on at more than one location.

which is really farking annoying if you want to be signed in at home, at work, and on your phone. those retarded messages spamming me were why i finally discontinued my ability to chat with the stragglers still on AIM.

Jim_Callahan: moothemagiccow: I use aim on trillian and pidgin. Im not paying $20 for a texting plan on top of my data plan.

How is unlimited text not already part of any plan containing data?

Mine isn't unlimited (or even included with data). Verizon.

burndtdan: why i finally discontinued my ability to chat with the stragglers still on AIM.

But who is going to talk to the pornbots?

Imperialism: I'm guessing my generation, the people who were in middle school when AIM was "cool" still use it. Why, what's the new thing? Skype, I guess? Or just texting on your phone?

Google Talk and, since there's still two people on my list I can't get to switch, MSN, or whatever it's called this week, through Adium on the Mac, and IM+ on the phone. Multi-protocol messengers ftw.

The kids, i.e. if you're less than half my age, you're a farking kid, all use teh facebooks these days.

My 77yo uncle is constantly ranting because

1) he still uses dial up and can't understand why he is unable to download hi-res photos from email
2) he can no longer file free electronic tax returns because no one, not even the government, supports Windows 95 or IE5

He is a retired engineer and flight instructor but uses the first pc he ever bought (circa 1997) and thinks the internet is bad because it doesn't work and he shouldn't have to upgrade.

I can't explain that.

Jim_Callahan: moothemagiccow: I use aim on trillian and pidgin. Im not paying $20 for a texting plan on top of my data plan.

How is unlimited text not already part of any plan containing data?

verizon

I'm sorry, did you mean logically? Because text is data? Because all cell phone companies are assholes.

netringer: Hot Carl To Go: AbbeySomeone: I didn't know AOL was still around. Who doesn't know how intrusive it is?
Hmm.

I am still using my 700,000 free hours I racked up in the 90s.

Fail. You had to use up all of the free hours during your initial 30 day trial membership.

Fail. I'm pretty sure he was kidding.

I still have a Yahoo Messenger account. Its primary purpose for existing these days is to let me know whether or not my Internet connection is working.

Gosling: I still have a Yahoo Messenger account. Its primary purpose for existing these days is to let me know whether or not my Internet connection is working.

Uhm... ping 8.8.8.8 from your command line?