Unable to login with skype (was Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:51:25PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > > > I had already tried one method of doing that - using the suggested > > > method which involved using sed - which was offered as an alternative > > > to using a hexeditor (w

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
So, I checked out the following; The only things you need in ~/home/user/.Skype are the subfolder named as the skype-username and the "config.xml". To make it easy for your dad, you can create these files on your computer and send him both (login into skype with your dad's passwort and usernam

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 21:22:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Maybe I can talk a Windows user into installing a client and try chatting > with > her :) My skype display says it has 60M+ users on line. In 10 years time that may change and there may be another killer communications applicatio

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
> That is no instruction I can give to my father. And you need a Skype 4.3 > binary then as well? > > I actually don´t care that much. I don´t use Skype regularily. But my father > does. And these kind of instructions are fundamentally incompatible with > him > :). Skype could be something to bri

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 19:13:43 schrieb Hans: > > Hmmm, I see. > > > > I just started the application with auto login and that did still work. > > > > But when I logoff from within the application I cannot login again. > > > > There is lots of binary data in ~/.Skype. > > Yes, but you

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 20:11:44 schrieb Brian: > On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 20:52:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: > > > http://tox.im > > > > > > Free software, decentralized, should do most of the things you expect > > > from IM.

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Sep 2014 at 20:52:35 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: > > > > http://tox.im > > > > Free software, decentralized, should do most of the things you expect > > from IM. Not in Debian main archive yet, though. > > Wow, this looks g

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 21:14:08 schrieb Reco: > Hi. Hi Reco, > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as > > a router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as > > a > > router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution >

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
> I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a > router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution > that is *fully* and *completely* under *my* control and *will work as is* > until *I* decide to change it. > > Maybe I just grown up with a di

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:59:56 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I wonder about a solution I can install on my server. It would just act as a > router and the connection would be between clients directly. A solution that > is *fully* and *completely* under *my* control and *will work as is*

Re: Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
> Hmmm, I see. > > I just started the application with auto login and that did still work. > > But when I logoff from within the application I cannot login again. > > There is lots of binary data in ~/.Skype. > Yes, but you can relogin using my workaround. If you are logged in again, and did

Getting rid of that Skype completely and forever with a video chat solution under *my* control, any suggestion? (was: Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 17:41:54 schrieb Hans: > > As in the other thread again, it still works here. With version patched > > 4.2. > > > > At least I can see online state of buddies after login in and it does log > > in. > > > > Ciao, > > Did you real disconnect or just close the applic

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
> > As in the other thread again, it still works here. With version patched 4.2. > > At least I can see online state of buddies after login in and it does log > in. > > Ciao, Did you real disconnect or just close the application? Try to diconnect and reconnect. Does it work? Best Hans --

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 22:42:52 schrieb Bret Busby: > On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2014 08:00:16 Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote: > >> >> It has just occurred to me - I

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2014 08:00:16 Bret Busby wrote: >> On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote: >> >> It has just occurred to me - I believe that the appropriuate term for >> >> the Microsucks action, is

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 09:38:28 schrieb J M Cerqueira Esteves: > Hi > > I had Skype 4.2.0.13 working after the editing suggested here, > but tested it again today and it is no longer able to sign in --- thus, > editing the version number may no longer be useful, at least for some. > [in f

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
Hi I had Skype 4.2.0.13 working after the editing suggested here, but tested it again today and it is no longer able to sign in --- thus, editing the version number may no longer be useful, at least for some. [in fact I closed my account months ago, just kept an old testing account for such tests

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > I had already tried one method of doing that - using the suggested > > method which involved using sed - which was offered as an alternative > > to using a hexeditor (which option scared me), and the option using > > sed, did not work, a

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 September 2014 08:00:16 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote: > >> It has just occurred to me - I believe that the appropriuate term for > >> the Microsucks action, is crippleware. Microsucks has crippled >

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Hans
> I had already tried one method of doing that - using the suggested > method which involved using sed - which was offered as an alternative > to using a hexeditor (which option scared me), and the option using > sed, did not work, and I had posted the errors that arose from tring > to use the se

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote: >> It has just occurred to me - I believe that the appropriuate term for >> the Microsucks action, is crippleware. Microsucks has crippled >> versions of Skype, that have version numbers earlier than 4.3. >

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote: > It has just occurred to me - I believe that the appropriuate term for > the Microsucks action, is crippleware. Microsucks has crippled > versions of Skype, that have version numbers earlier than 4.3. I don't use Skype so can't test, but wh

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 20/09/14 01:38, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/09/2014, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> Have you successfully run any version of Skype on that build previously? >>> >> >> In a message posted last month, was; > > > Which'd be why I didn't read it. >

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/14 01:38, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> >> Have you successfully run any version of Skype on that build previously? >> > > In a message posted last month, was; Which'd be why I didn't read it. > > " > -- Forwarded message -- > Fr

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Have you successfully run any version of Skype on that build previously? > In a message posted last month, was; " -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:42:38 +0800 Subject: Re: Skype access cancelled for Deb

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/09/14 19:34, Bret Busby wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Curt wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:35:18 >> From: Curt >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Faking it with skype >> Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:35:50 + (UTC) >>

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-19 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Curt wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:35:18 From: Curt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Faking it with skype Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:35:50 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 2014-09-17, Scott Ferguson wrote: As others have

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-18 Thread Curt
On 2014-09-17, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > As others have pointed out - you are attempting to run Skype 32-bit on a > 64-bit system. You 'can' do that - but you must enable multiarch support > first. Then you'll be able to change the version number. > I believe he's antipodal and running Lenny wi

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/09/14 04:31, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > I tried your helping, but I get this: > > "sed: no input files" > > What should I do? "It" has only been tested with Skype 2.3.x on Wheezy with backports (both 64 and 32-bit), or later. Please post the output of the following:- lsb_release -s

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/09/14 02:03, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 17/09/14 17:05, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson >>> wrote: On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Hans
Hi Bret, > Hello, Hans. > > Thank you for the offer (I think that you may have offered it before, > for my Debian 7.x installation, but I am not sure). Yes, I mentioned this offer before here. > However, whilst you have said that it is written for testing, but > should run on stable, would th

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:36 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Bret! > > Try to download my fixed package from here: > > http://www.ccpeine.de/downloads/skype-debian-4.2.0.11-2_i386.deb > > I am running testing, but should also run on stable (but not tested!) > > Good luck! > > Hans > > Hello, Hans. Thank yo

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Hans
Hi Bret! Try to download my fixed package from here: http://www.ccpeine.de/downloads/skype-debian-4.2.0.11-2_i386.deb I am running testing, but should also run on stable (but not tested!) Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/09/2014, B wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:03:53 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> >> (:4748): Gtk-WARNING **: >> >> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: wrong ELF class: >> >> ELFCLASS64 > > At 1st sight, I'd say that it needs a 32bits lib and found instead a > 64bits one. >

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Reco
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:12:43 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I am unfamiliar (I do not know which is which) with the Debian version > names relative to the version numbers, but I am using Debian 6 LTS, > and, etc/apt/sources.list , show it to be Debian squeeze-lts. Ok. Let me rephrase - you're one majo

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/09/2014, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:05:05PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> However, ... >> >> " >> :~# cp /usr/bin/skype{,.bak} >> root@bret-dd-workstation:~# Old=$(skype -v | head -n1 | cut -d " " >> -f2);sed -i "s/$Old/4.3.0.37/g" >> >> (:4748): Gtk-WARNING **: >> /usr/

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:03:53 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > >> (:4748): Gtk-WARNING **: > >> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: wrong ELF class: > >> ELFCLASS64 At 1st sight, I'd say that it needs a 32bits lib and found instead a 64bits one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/09/14 17:05, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down skype; the fix involving the use of a hex

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:05:05PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > However, ... > > " > :~# cp /usr/bin/skype{,.bak} > root@bret-dd-workstation:~# Old=$(skype -v | head -n1 | cut -d " " > -f2);sed -i "s/$Old/4.3.0.37/g" > > (:4748): Gtk-WARNING **: > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/14 17:05, Bret Busby wrote: > On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down >>> skype; the fix involving the use of a hex editor, to cause faking the >>> skype version nu

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/09/2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: >> Hello. >> >> With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down >> skype; the fix involving the use of a hex editor, to cause faking the >> skype version number, to pretend to be 4.3 (I think it is tha

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down > skype; the fix involving the use of a hex editor, to cause faking the > skype version number, to pretend to be 4.3 (I think it is that version > number that is needed), I am won