[geeks] I feel dirty

Gregory Leblanc geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 19 23:31:47 CST 2001


On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:31, Martijn Pronk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So finally I turned to the dark side... I've used msn messenger...
> So I guess I lost some geek points. 
> A little explaination why I turned to the dark side.
> My girlfriend lives about 160 miles away from me, and every day calling
> starts getting annoying, so she started annoying me with why I'm not
> using msn. I tell her "doesn't work on Solaris, FreeBSD or HP-UX, so
> I can't and won't use it". She says, that I have windows on my laptop
> so you can use it. Problem is, I boot windows only once every two weeks...
> While being in windows I thought I could always try it, so I did... 
> And I actually liked it... Shit... now I have to spend too much time in 
> windows.

So, why don't you just download gabber, or another jabber client
(jabber.org/jabber.com)?  I run gabber on my SS20 and my x86 machine,
mostly to talk to people on MSN (and the few people I've converted to
jabber).  (gleblanc at jabber.com, BTW)
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.



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