Re: Faking it with skype
On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2014 08:00:16 Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> 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.
>> >
>> > I don't use Skype so can't test, but why not try just changing the
>> > number
>> > as
>> >
>> > has been suggested, and as has apparently worked for some other people?
>> >
>> > Lisi
>>
>> 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)
>
> Ah! That answers my question. Perhaps the time has come to grasp the bull
> by
> the horns? The lesser evil? And it may turn out a good deal less fearsome
>
> than you expect.
>
> Lisi
>
Unfortunately, as indicated by subsequent posts in this and a later,
related, thread, Microshite's ongoing campaign of sabotage of
technology, has apparently overcome the particular fix.
Hopefully, sometime, someone will successfully destroy the
deathstar-like entity that is Microshite.
And, hopefully, the original Skype developers will create a new Skype
facility, free of Microshite.
--
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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