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Re-Skyped
Finally I am back on Skype. I had some problems with version 1.4.0.74 on Dapper last time but version 1.4.0.99 on a fresh Feisty install is working out really well. So if anybody cares, my Skype address is charlvn. I just don't have a headset with me right now so for the next week or two I probably won't be able to do the VoIP thing. But at least I can use text messaging over Skype again. While I'm in Botswana I should be on Skype a lot now but when I'm back in South Africa and making use of local-only ADSL I will no longer stay logged on to it all the time. Therefore you'll have to make an appointment with me as usual. At least I don't have to worry about beetrooting to Windows every time though. I wonder if the new version will actually run on Dapper too...
Oh yeah and the new version looks really great. Is starting to look much more like the Windows client. The first versions of Skype on Linux I used to use a year and a half ago were uber ugly. Finally Skype seems to be waking up and realising their Linux market out there. Next step would hopefully be to open up their protocol. Yeah like that's going to happen. They are stuffing up their own product though cause it means guys like me can't write custom applications for them. When do they release their own API libraries??? I mean they are limiting their own functionality. Eventually the competition (like Google Talk) is going to make a serious dent in their market share because they are open and freely extensible. Or at least so I hope!! It's all XMPP (and therefore XML-based) anyway so is pretty damn cool and easy to build on! :P
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