How old is my AIM screen name?
September 30, 2006 7:08 AM
How do I figure out how long my AIM screen name has been active?
Yes, if you check your own profile in the latest version of GAIM (I think this feature has been around for a while, but I'm not sure) you will see a "member since" date.
posted by qz at 8:35 AM on September 30, 2006
posted by qz at 8:35 AM on September 30, 2006
I can vouch that in GAIM 2.0 beta, qz's method works. (Have I really had the same screen name for over 7 years? wow...)
posted by chrisamiller at 3:49 PM on September 30, 2006
posted by chrisamiller at 3:49 PM on September 30, 2006
I never even knew they kept a record of that, thats nifty info
posted by spacesbetween at 8:20 PM on September 30, 2006
posted by spacesbetween at 8:20 PM on September 30, 2006
How can someone on an apple check? We can't run GAIM.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 1:53 AM on October 1, 2006
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 1:53 AM on October 1, 2006
Member Since: Sat Jul 19 15:29:05 1997
I now, officially, feel old.
posted by gregschoen at 2:19 AM on October 1, 2006
I now, officially, feel old.
posted by gregschoen at 2:19 AM on October 1, 2006
How can someone on an apple check? We can't run GAIM.
Why not?
posted by grouse at 7:55 AM on October 1, 2006
Why not?
posted by grouse at 7:55 AM on October 1, 2006
Grouse, because Gaim doesn't exist for OS X. (Did you even look at the downloads page?)
posted by delfuego at 1:36 PM on October 1, 2006
posted by delfuego at 1:36 PM on October 1, 2006
Yep.
The first return is a project to port GTK over to OSX with no downloadable for Gaim.
The second is for Wikipedia's Gaim page, which makes a claim that users can run it using Apple's X Server, but with no info to make that happen. (I assume I could download the many-hundered-of-Mb developer tools for OSX, then compile Gaim, then download Apple's 40+ megabyte X server, then figure out how to configure it to run, and then somehow run Gaim, but that's certainly not a downloadable install-and-run solution.)
The third is an ExtremeTech article about a guy who moved to OS X and needed an alternative to Gaim, probably because it doesn't realistically run on OS X.
The fourth is an OS X FAQ forum post about someone who couldn't get Gaim to compile under OS X.
The fifth is a Cypherpunks post that mentions that Gaim doesn't run on OS X.
I could go on... or I could say that this all points to Gaim not being a viable option -- in a reasonable user's notion of viable -- on OS X.
Sorry for the derail.
posted by delfuego at 4:59 PM on October 1, 2006
The first return is a project to port GTK over to OSX with no downloadable for Gaim.
The second is for Wikipedia's Gaim page, which makes a claim that users can run it using Apple's X Server, but with no info to make that happen. (I assume I could download the many-hundered-of-Mb developer tools for OSX, then compile Gaim, then download Apple's 40+ megabyte X server, then figure out how to configure it to run, and then somehow run Gaim, but that's certainly not a downloadable install-and-run solution.)
The third is an ExtremeTech article about a guy who moved to OS X and needed an alternative to Gaim, probably because it doesn't realistically run on OS X.
The fourth is an OS X FAQ forum post about someone who couldn't get Gaim to compile under OS X.
The fifth is a Cypherpunks post that mentions that Gaim doesn't run on OS X.
I could go on... or I could say that this all points to Gaim not being a viable option -- in a reasonable user's notion of viable -- on OS X.
Sorry for the derail.
posted by delfuego at 4:59 PM on October 1, 2006
Adium (for macs) is built on the same base as GAIM - it very well might have this functionality.
posted by chrisamiller at 10:56 PM on October 1, 2006
posted by chrisamiller at 10:56 PM on October 1, 2006
For the love of God, there is a binary Fink package for Gaim (mentioned in the second hit on my search). For all the talk of Mac OS X as being "the UNIX for the rest of us," if it is really difficult enough to be unviable to install a binary package and get it to run over X (the X server won't run without configuration?) then I am extremely disappointed.
posted by grouse at 12:27 AM on October 2, 2006
posted by grouse at 12:27 AM on October 2, 2006
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