On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:09:20 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: > >> I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 > >> installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: > >> > >> (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo! > >> Messenger that is no longer supported. Please upgrade by downloading the > >> newest version by going to: http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php > > > > Honestly, dump yahoo and go with google talk. Convince your friends to do > > the same. > > > > Insane yahoo issues just go away when you do this. > > Well, I have problems with Kopete loosing my settings for google talk. > I don't know why, it just does. I just gave up since I don't know > anyone that uses it anyway. Well, I guess you do but still. :/
Down here at the tip of darkest Africa in good 'ol ZA almost no-one uses Yahoo. We escaped the popularity of that scourge, thank $DEITY for that. gtalk is popular, so is MSN. I used to have eternal issues with Yahoo and still have them with MSN, but gtalk is rock stable for me. Horses for courses I guess. > Then again, Kopete forces me to re-enter my Yahoo password every time I > restart Kopete too. It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots > to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the > password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for > the "remember password" option. Do you use kwallet, and is kopete authorized to open it? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
