Old-School Linux
An associate and I have been using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), with the Off The Record (OTR) plug-in, to securely collaborate on Project X. Although OTR worked, there were times that it didn’t work very well… longer messages got errors instead of being transmitted properly, and some days it didn’t seem to want to work at all.
Yesterday, my associate discovered that there was a new version of it available, which claimed to solve these problems. I agreed that we should update it, and we each began to do so. It took him just a couple minutes — he’s using Windows, and there was a Windows installer already built for him. I’m still using Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” 7.04, and since newer versions of OTR weren’t available in the repositories I know of, the only way I could see to get it was via source code, something I haven’t often had to do. The older version was really causing trouble, so I gritted my teeth and picked up the source code. Continue reading ‘Old-School Linux’ »