On 19/08/2014, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/08/2014, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
>> op 10-08-14 20:55, Tom Roche schreef:
>>>
>>> Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new
>>> version, I'd like to learn more about available, working substitutes
>>> for Skype for D7/wheezy, possibly current testing/jessie, and maybe
>>> even more robust bits of sid. (For brevity, I'll refer to that
>>> collectively as "D7++".) Particularly I'm interested in the following
>>> usecase: someone receives request from OP to do an interview by
>>> Skype, the service with which the OP is most familiar. Are there,
>>> e.g.,
>>>
>>> 1. Skype-compatible clients for D7++ which could be used to connect
>>> directly to an OP running Skype?
>>
>> There are no Skype compatible clients.
>>
>>> 2. Alternate services (e.g., Google Hangout) with ease-of-use
>>> sufficiently approximate to Skype that the D7++ user could reasonably
>>> propose to an OP of {usual, not very strong} IT-literacy?
>>
>> For about a month I've tested an online service called Bistri:
>> https://bistri.com/
>> It worked fine with Chromium, but not with Iceweasel then (maybe it
>> works now with a newer version).
>>
>
> That web site is all https, even for looking for information about the
> application, and, the home page itself.
>
> I have just done a system update (Debian 6 LTS), which included a
> number of libraries, including SSL libraries (I mention this here,
> because I do not know whether that is the cause of the problem).
>
> When I went to look at that web site, I repeatedly got "The
> certificate at (<multiple paths within the web site>, even though I
> was trying to get to only the home page of the web site, in the first
> instance - I could not even get to the home page) has expired - do you
> want to ignore this error", I clicked on the "Yes" option. I did that
> about ten or twenty times, and then my web browser crashed.
>
> So, they can put that web site, where it hurts.
>
> When web sites make even their home pages, malware, they have no place
> in the World Wide Web.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> written by Douglas Adams,
> published by Pan Books, 1992
>
> ....................................................
>
"
SSL Errors:
for: https://bistri.com/
The certificate has expired
Do you want to ignore these errors?
"
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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