Ravi’s Gadgets

I use about 10 different chat ids on various domains. 3 of Yahoo, 3 of MSN, 2 of Gmail 2 AOL and 4 IRC chats.

At any given time during any weekday, you will find atleast 200 people online on my messenger. Unable to manage them with Induvidual messengers, I put them all on Pidgin, and am using it for over a year now.  I can chat with everyone on pidgin with just 1 window. Pidgin was formerly called Gaim, and for some reason, I like gaim more than Pidgin.

Well, these days, with the post migration issues at the peek, with my phones put to test, my PC is receiving chats too. So many chats that my PC with 2 GB RAM is suffocating. I reply to most of the chats, at times I ask someone else to do it.

But I have a feeling that I have put both ubuntu and pidgin to a test, and have concluded that both are extremely stable. Windows cannot handle this many chats in parallel, while everyone is typing in lines and lines of messages.

And pidgin didnt hang either. I was able to switch smoothly around tabs and chat with the next client, close windows easily etc etc. The tabs were endless, and I wondered, what what would have happened if I had closed no tabs today. I could have taken a screen shot and sent it to guinnes record and found out what they have to say.

I cant imagine what would have happened if I was using Windows. It was bound to hang, and I would have spent most of the time of the day rebooting the PC rather than providing solution to the clients.

For your info, the PC that I was sitting on all day today is quite old, has a single core 1.6 Ghz 32 bit processor with a 40 GB drive and 2 GB of RAM. You need Ram ofcourse. You cant expect this performance with a 128 MB Ram installed on your machine.