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MSN: Adium and Pidgin unable to login

Looks like Microsoft has been making some changes in their MSN servers and protocols.

Since that change, both Adium and Pidgin clients can’t login. I don’t want to turn this personal, but I think it’s not an ethical decision from the Microsoft Engineers.

Millions of Unix users will not be able to use this service, and I am sure that the responsables for this update knew it…

Right now there is not much information about this subject.

Looks like it is still possible to login with:

• Microsoft clients, of course
• Adium 1.3.1
• aMSN 0.97.2 ( the one I am using right now)

I’ll try to find other alternatives for Linux.. It’s a very important service for me and I hate aMSN

Please let me know if you find more solutions.

UPDATE: looks like this problem was solved by Microsoft. Not this time…false alarm! :)

Tags: English, Internet, Linux, Mac, Windows

Recent bookmarks @ 09-11-08

I have been using del.icio.us for a long time and it has become pretty useful for me. For those you don’t know this service:

What is Delicious?

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

On this post category I will publish my new discovered sites and services with a small description of them.

I have installed this WordPress plugin today to list my recent bookmarks, as you can see in the right column.

These are the bookmarks I’d like to share today:

1. del.icio.us for Wordpress « WordPress Plugins – the wordpress plugin I am using at this blog
2. E-Mail Icon Generator – a simple website where you can generate a mail icon like the one I use in my about page.

3. Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatars – a service that lets you store avatar images that follow you from weblog to weblog appearing when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.

4. Imdb: tino’s vote list – Tino is a big friend of mine who loves cinema. And this is his public vote list. You can also see my vote list on my profile.

5. OpenLDAP – Project homepage of OpenLDAP an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

And that’s all for now. I’ll try to post frequently and keep this category as interesting as possible.

You can check my full del.icio.us page here.

Tags: del.icio.us, English, Internet