Play music through Skype

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/05/11 11:20, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> Methinks that you ought to be aware of this:
>>
>> The post-acquisition outage.
>>
>> Skype issued a manual workaround on Thursday to resolve a glitch that
>> prevented mostly Windows users from logging in.
>>
>> The VoIP company, which Microsoft has agreed to pay US$8.5 billion for, gave
>> instructions on how to resolve the log-in problem by deleting a “shared.xml”
>> file.
>>
>> “This predominantly affects people using Skype for Windows,” its advisory
>> stated
>> <http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_skype_an.html>.
>> Similar instructions were given to Mac OS X and Linux users.
>>
> It also affected Linux.
>
> A couple of days ago my Skype (on 10.10/64) began to crash repeatedly
> until I found the workaround an deleted the “shared.xml” offender.
>
> By the way, lately, more than once, I got my OS completely crashed
> while in a Skype call. Except for the blue screen, it looked like I
> was running Windows.
>
> L.

Perhaps the clue lies in the fact that Skype is now owned by M$, hmmmm? :-D

BC

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