Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Yahoo Messenger Problems
Ok, so AvantBlog seems to work (although it doesn't seem to handle umlauts well - I've gone back and corrected them using the Blogger website and my knowledge that ampersand-"ouml"-semicolon will do the trick). But it seems it only makes sense to use it when you don't have wireless access - if you do, why not use Blogger's web posting system?
Anyway, about Yahoo Messenger. As far as I am aware, it is the only IM system with which Windows users can see my iSight. But now I can't use it anymore. I was using it fine last night to talk to my friend Khash, but had to log out for some reason. When I tried to log back in again, it stopped me, saying that I had been logged out because it detected me logged in on some other machine (I'm not). this problem, which several others have reported on the web, is very robust: I tried other usernames, and even re-installed Yahoo Messenger, but the problem persists. Any help appreciated. By the way, just before these problems started, Yahoo Messenger told me it couldn't start my webcam because the webcam servers were too busy. A coincidence?
Update 6/5/04:
I fixed it. After trying over and over, I finally decided to try logging in under "invisible mode". That worked. But now I can only log in under invisible mode.
From the University of Skövde
Ok, so AvantBlog seems to work (although it doesn't seem to handle umlauts well - I've gone back and corrected them using the Blogger website and my knowledge that ampersand-"ouml"-semicolon will do the trick). But it seems it only makes sense to use it when you don't have wireless access - if you do, why not use Blogger's web posting system?
Anyway, about Yahoo Messenger. As far as I am aware, it is the only IM system with which Windows users can see my iSight. But now I can't use it anymore. I was using it fine last night to talk to my friend Khash, but had to log out for some reason. When I tried to log back in again, it stopped me, saying that I had been logged out because it detected me logged in on some other machine (I'm not). this problem, which several others have reported on the web, is very robust: I tried other usernames, and even re-installed Yahoo Messenger, but the problem persists. Any help appreciated. By the way, just before these problems started, Yahoo Messenger told me it couldn't start my webcam because the webcam servers were too busy. A coincidence?
Update 6/5/04:
I fixed it. After trying over and over, I finally decided to try logging in under "invisible mode". That worked. But now I can only log in under invisible mode.
From the University of Skövde
