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[04:06] MSN Messenger Is Fugly
I installed MSN Messenger yesterday and was so disgusted with everything flashing and all of the built-in advertisments that I uninstalled it straight away. I was going to switch over to Trillian and then I remembered that GAIM now has a Windows port.
I installed the new Beta2 of version 2.0.0, fired it up and was rewarded with GAIM crashing out the second I tried to start it. However, being an open source project coming from the linux world, the programmers understand the incredible handiness of debug output and by running "gaim -d" you get verbose output of exactly what's going on, and going wrong.
In my case GAIM appeared to be inheriting aspell from the UltraEdit directory. I nullified the GAIM_ASPELL_DIR environment variable (as suggested here) and it now works like a charm, with NO advertisments, no flashing things, no *nudge* "functionallity" and no crappy emoticons.