Me, Myself and Technology » Pidgin http://www.kalpik.com/blog Kalpik Nigam Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:14:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Yahoo censoring status messages? http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/ http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:54:00 +0000 kalpik http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/ I discovered this when i tried to set my status message to “Benazir Bhutto killed..” it just didn’t reflect. Then i tried Pidgin’s default away message “I’m not here right now” didn’t work.. But surprisingly “I’m not here right away” works.. Harsh confirmed the behavior. Seems as if yahoo is blocking some words such as “now” and “Bhutto” in various combinations in a sentence (“now” and “Bhutto” do work as status messages). At first i though it was a problem with pidgin. But then Ankur confirmed that these words were not working with even the windows yahoo messenger client! I really don’t know what yahoo is trying to achieve but its really irritating :|

]]> http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-censoring-status-messages/feed/ 18 Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox repository for Ubuntu http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/18/latest-pidginrhythmbox-repository-for-ubuntu/ http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/18/latest-pidginrhythmbox-repository-for-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:22:15 +0000 kalpik http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/12/18/latest-pidginrhythmbox-repository-for-ubuntu/ Here is a repository i use on my gutsy install which always contains the latest builds of Pidgin and Rhythmbox. So no more hunting for debs or compiling sources :D

Steps to add the repository:

1. Open Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)

2. Type “gksu  gedit /etc/apt/sources.list”

3. Go to the end of the file and add the following onto a new line:

## Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox
deb http://www.telemail.fi/mlind/ubuntu gutsy main

4. Save the file and close Gedit.

5. Add the public key so that apt does not complain about any authentication errors (type into terminal):

wget http://www.telemail.fi/mlind/ubuntu/937215FF.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

6. Update your system (type in terminal)

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

7. Voila! You should now have the latest Pidgin and Rhythmbox!

]]> http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/12/18/latest-pidginrhythmbox-repository-for-ubuntu/feed/ 16 Pidgin v2.1.1 Released! http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/08/21/pidgin-v211-released/ http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/08/21/pidgin-v211-released/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:22:03 +0000 kalpik http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/08/21/pidgin-v211-released/ No changelog yet, ill update this thread as soon as i get debs. Though, since a month now, i have shifted to Ubuntu Gutsy. :)

Get it here.

]]> http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/08/21/pidgin-v211-released/feed/ 0 Install Pidgin 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Feisty (with all plugins) http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/05/12/install-pidgin-200-on-ubuntu-feisty-with-all-plugins/ http://www.kalpik.com/blog/2007/05/12/install-pidgin-200-on-ubuntu-feisty-with-all-plugins/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 17:21:34 +0000 kalpik http://www.kalpiknigam.com/blog/2007/05/12/install-pidgin-200-on-ubuntu-feisty-with-all-plugins/ You can easily get the vanilla Pidgin 2.0 .deb (installation file for Ubuntu Feisty).

The only thing i was missing badly were the plugins! I was really used to the libnotify and autoreply plugins. Anyway, so i’ve compiled a .deb here for the Purple Plugin Pack.

Plugins in the Plugin Pack

  1. Album
  2. Auto Accept
  3. Auto-rejoin
  4. Auto Reply
  5. awaynotify
  6. Bash.org
  7. Buddy Icon Tools
  8. Buddy List Options
  9. Buddy Note
  10. buddytime
  11. chronic
  12. convcolors
  13. Dice
  14. DiffTopic
  15. Magic 8 Ball
  16. Flip
  17. gRIM
  18. Group Message
  19. Hide Conversation
  20. IRC Helper
  21. Irssi Features
  22. Last Seen
  23. List Handler
  24. Marker Line
  25. My Status Box
  26. napster
  27. New Line
  28. Nick Said
  29. Offline Message
  30. Old Logger
  31. Plonkers
  32. Schedule
  33. Separate and Tab
  34. Show Offline
  35. Sim Fix
  36. Slash Exec
  37. SSL Info
  38. Stocker
  39. Switch Spell
  40. Talk Filters
  41. XMMS Remote
  42. XChat-Chats

Edit: Thanks to Karthik, we have 64 bit debs for the plugin pack too!

Edit2: Some people are shamelessly copying this article and posting it on their blogs/sites. They were even hot linking to my .deb files. So now i am using box.net to distribute the deb files. Please do let me know if anyone faces issues with that :)

Edit3: Rapidshare link for 32 bit and 64 bit plugin pack added.

Edit4: Pidgin updated to v2.0.2.

Edit5: Plugin Pack updated to v2.0.0 for i386 architecture.

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