On Tuesday 19 August 2014 07:17:25 Bret Busby wrote:
> 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.
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> SSL Errors:
>
> for: https://bistri.com/
> The certificate has expired
> Do you want to ignore these errors?I just clicked on your own hyperlink above and got straight through. I usually get warnings of expired certificates. Whatever your problem is, it appears not to be with the site. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201408190731.49236.lisi.re...@gmail.com
