troubleshooting Archive

Pidgin stopped working?

Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 | No Comments
I use the open-source Pidgin IM client, and came home to discover it had stopped connecting to my MSN Messenger account with the error "Unable to retrieve MSN address book." Turns out that Microsoft have blocked the version of the protocol Pidgin's MSN plugin uses ...
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Max Payne 2 & SMP

Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Steam - Valve's digital distribution mechanism - is having a sale at the moment with some reasonable bargains, including a decent deal on Max Payne and Max Payne 2. Having enjoyed the original and never having played the sequel, I snapped it up. There are ...
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