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AnneX
February 8th, 2001, 13:05
Today I started up ICQ like I do everyday.. and what do I see when I recieve my first message of the day. A banner towards the bottom of the window... not advertising anything as of yet except ICQ itself. Sending a message... same little banner down there. :(

So, who else has this? I've asked many on my list if they have it too and so far not one person does. ICQ targeting me? hehe.. well, I don't like it, but if its there to keep the service free then thats okay.

Strange thing is most of the people I asked have the same version I do.. ICQ 2000a maybe its per build that is getting these banners? My info says ICQ version 2000a Beta v.4.29 Build #3140.. you guys have this banner like me? :confused:

ok.. I am adding a little screenshot of this so you guys who don't have it (lucky you!) know what it looks like to me.. http://www.upside-down.net/icq_sendmessage.gif

[Edited by AnneX on 02-08-2001 at 02:15 PM]
Mandrake
February 8th, 2001, 13:31
They need that to stay free... They're owned by AOL... AOL has plenty of money... Trust me!
BLACKOUT
February 8th, 2001, 17:26
I have ICQ 2000b beta v4.55 build # 3264
and the only thing I have banners on are like, the send file, and send chat things, not the message windows
--BLK
keith
February 8th, 2001, 18:07
i use 99b [icq 2000 sucks, too much like aol]. no ads for me.
chrisabrooks
February 8th, 2001, 18:11
No ads for me anywhere on 2000b!
Nick
February 8th, 2001, 19:44
Originally posted by keith
i use 99b ...

That reminds me... Chicken, when are you gonna upload that for us!?
Gonzo
February 8th, 2001, 21:03
I have ICQ 2000b
and I did notice a thing at the top where it says ICQ 2000b its says ICQ SMS! and when you click on it, it will open up. its a thing for a cell phone and ICQ to work together.
keith
February 8th, 2001, 21:46
Originally posted by Nick
That reminds me... Chicken, when are you gonna upload that for us!?

here it is: http://media.weezerfans.com/utilities/icq99b.exe

5,221,123 bytes
KNK
February 8th, 2001, 22:35
Originally posted by Gonzo
I have ICQ 2000b
and I did notice a thing at the top where it says ICQ 2000b its says ICQ SMS! and when you click on it, it will open up. its a thing for a cell phone and ICQ to work together.

I noticed that too... one day it wasn't there and the next day it popped up ... weird!
LastActionHero
February 9th, 2001, 01:01
me too i got that icq sms button on the top by default and it doesn't go. i have icq 2000b.
Actually ICQ hve upgraded their SMS support, so i think they are promoting it.
Chicken
February 9th, 2001, 09:02
Originally posted by keith
here it is: http://media.weezerfans.com/utilities/icq99b.exe

5,221,123 bytes

I wonder what the heck I have??? I sometimes change the file names, so I might have done this with this one (who knows?), but I have:

icq99b_nomfc.exe which is 4.41 MB

Hmmmmm.

I also have icq98b.exe which is only 1.63 MB

I figure that icq2001 should weigh in around 27MB at that rate :)

[Edited by Chicken on 02-09-2001 at 10:05 AM]
Nick
February 9th, 2001, 18:19
Originally posted by Chicken
I also have icq98b.exe which is only 1.63 MB


: on knees begging Chicken to upload it :
LeX
February 10th, 2001, 03:46
No ads here... I'm using 2000b. It's a real RAM hogger. :(
jobesoft
February 10th, 2001, 14:35
Im using 2000a and i havent got any ads...
Nick
February 10th, 2001, 17:47
Thanks keith, and NO THANKS TO THAT LOUSY CHICKEN (;))! Now my ICQ is on all the time :D.
Chicken
February 11th, 2001, 13:40
Sorry, I check this forum every other time. If you still want it shoot me an email and warn me, that you posted here and are waiting.
Coolin
February 13th, 2001, 14:01
So Chicken, can you upload ICQ 98 somewhere so we may all download it? I want a lean and mean ICQ client, not ICQ 2000. My cousin, who recently got a new computer, would like to to have ICQ 98 (which was on his old computer) back also.
Mandrake
February 13th, 2001, 22:16
I too might consider using ICQ again if I had a decent version. I tried the 2000b and it was horrible... Not only a 5MB download, but it slowed my system to a crawl.
Coolin
February 14th, 2001, 11:49
ICQ 99 took up 10megs of RAM, I'm scared to learn what ICQ 2000 would take up. What I think is that ICQ should just scrap their current code and create ICQ from the ground up, I bet the install file would be about 2 megs.
LeX
February 15th, 2001, 07:46
Originally posted by Coolin
ICQ 99 took up 10megs of RAM, I'm scared to learn what ICQ 2000 would take up.
One word.... LOTS!
Chicken
February 16th, 2001, 18:08
Originally posted by Coolin
So Chicken, can you upload ICQ 98 somewhere so we may all download it?

http://www.woobster.com/icq98.exe

-for a limited time...
Coolin
February 16th, 2001, 22:47
Yes! Thank you very much Chicken! My cousin and I are extremely grateful!
LeX
February 17th, 2001, 11:16
98's better than 99?
Nick
February 17th, 2001, 13:11
Originally posted by LeX
98's better than 99?

Yup :D.
Coolin
February 17th, 2001, 13:43
Older = Bloated.
That's why Windows 95 is 10 times better than Windows Me!
Mandrake
February 17th, 2001, 17:47
Not quite, my fine feathered friend.... Windows Millenium does not crash every half-hour like Windows 95 did. :)
Rodie
February 17th, 2001, 18:29
Come on, we all know that MS-DOS 1.0 is the best operating system ever, with Mac System Software 1.0 being close behind!
Coolin
February 17th, 2001, 22:57
Mandrake, since when was I feathered? ;)

Also, for me, Windows 95 does not crash often (once a week) compared to Windoze Me's 30 minute timed crash.
Mandrake
February 18th, 2001, 00:01
It's better than being tarred and feathered... :)

I had Win95 on my old system and I usually had to dial into the Net about two or three times a net due to 95 deciding it needed to reboot, on its own.

My new system came with WinME and it's been great... It's never completely locked up, even if an individual program may crash... And that doesn't even happen very often.
LeX
February 18th, 2001, 00:33
Windows 95 is one of the worst operating systems next to the 98 series. The MacOS hasn't been reliable since the PowerPCs came out.

Anybody having troubles with ICQ98a? I can't seem to register my own UIN... it was like that since a long time ago, back when 98 was the newest version. I think there was the same problem with 99. I didn't have this problem with 2000 though.... weird. :(
Nick
February 18th, 2001, 07:32
Originally posted by LeX
Anybody having troubles with ICQ98a? I can't seem to register my own UIN...

Just register in ICQ2000 or ICQ99 and login with 98. I had the same problem, but it's fixed pretty easiliy.
LeX
February 18th, 2001, 07:46
No, what I meant was, I can't use my existing UIN on 98.
Coolin
February 18th, 2001, 21:08
Is it because you already have ICQ2000 open? You can't have 2 ppl in the same account at the same time.
}:8) Supermoo
February 18th, 2001, 23:56
Unless you find a little program for those of us with split-personalities! ;)
LeX
February 23rd, 2001, 08:29
No, I don't have 2000 open.. I didn't run anything except ICQ98a. It says that it's registering, but after like 5 long tries it tells me it failed and told me to retry. I did that a couple o' times, then I got pissed and shut the program. :mad:
}:8) Supermoo
February 25th, 2001, 14:02
Originally posted by LeX
The MacOS hasn't been reliable since the PowerPCs came out.

See the future.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Coolin
February 25th, 2001, 20:14
I see that their core kernal is called Darwin. Did you know that people who win a Darwin award are people who die a funny death? Let's see how MacOSX fares ;)

They also claim to have an "uncrashable" core, Microsoft said the same thing about Windows 2000. And sure, it's better than Windows 9x, but what isn't? Windows 2000 is also easily crashed.
DemonKnight
March 5th, 2001, 17:50
MacOS X's kernel is based on a unix kernal it dont get more stable than that. and as for ICQ, I got one word, imici search softseek.com for it. (It rolls MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and its own server into one small 500K download.)
Rodie
March 10th, 2001, 21:15
Originally posted by Coolin
I see that their core kernal is called Darwin. Did you know that people who win a Darwin award are people who die a funny death? Let's see how MacOSX fares ;)


Most likely they are naming it after Charles Darwin, the same scientist (evolution, natural selection, etc.) the Darwin Awards are named in honor of.
Rodie
March 10th, 2001, 21:19
Originally posted by DemonKnight
MacOS X's kernel is based on a unix kernal it dont get more stable than that. and as for ICQ, I got one word, imici search softseek.com for it. (It rolls MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and its own server into one small 500K download.)

It's funny, when I had an iMac all I did was ----- about how stripped-down the Mac port of ICQ was. Now that I have a PC, all I do is ----- about how bloated the Windows version heh.

But I'm glad to hear a third-party is making an ICQ clone. Mac wouldn't even have napster if nobody had made Macster, which now is the official Mac Napster client.
Cheap Bastard
March 11th, 2001, 02:19
Originally posted by Rodie
Come on, we all know that MS-DOS 1.0 is the best operating system ever, with Mac System Software 1.0 being close behind!

I'd have to disagree... The best OS would have to be the one they put on those punchcards...
Cheap Bastard
March 11th, 2001, 02:21
Originally posted by DemonKnight
MacOS X's kernel is based on a unix kernal it dont get more stable than that ...

... Did you know the Windows Kernel (any windows kernel) is a unix kernel?