Showing posts with label Skype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skype. Show all posts

Friday, 22 June 2018

Pidgin Part 3 - Or how I learned to ha... dislike Lync

The company is migrating to MS Teams in the near future. This is actually great and seems to work with Linux quite well, even if there isn't an official client for Linux. If Microsoft were to actually make a full Teams client for Linux, that would be the first official application I'd be running on my Linux laptop.

That said, we haven't actually fully moved to Teams, and are actually still using Lync (while moving to Skype-for-Business i.e. Lync 2016) in the nearer future. I'm still on the old Lync server and now, for some reason, my Pidgin-Sipe client has stopped working.

I cannot seem to connect to the server and I haven't found out why yet.

Currently, when running Pidgin with the --debug flag I get the following.

(14:03:26) sipe: sipe_http_request_response_unauthorized: init context target 'HTTP/server.domain.com' token '<NULL>'
(14:03:26) sipe: sipe_http_request_response_unauthorized: authentication failed, throwing away context

Obviously, I'm not giving out the server name.

It's a different error than having an incorrect password, so I'm not sure what the problem is. (Yet.)

If anyone happens on this blog and has more input or an idea, please add it in the comments.

Friday, 8 January 2010

New Year, New Gadgets, New Tech

Happy New Year!

Yes I am 8 days late, but it's better late than never. Plus you take a holiday and boom, you forget about things.

CES is on in Las Vegas. This is one trade show I would love to go to. I love reading about all the new things are coming this year, however there's one thing that I am not really interested in. 3D TV.

Sony is going to start selling TVs that support this and the great thing is that they're making their PS3 compatible (I assume it's only a firmware upgrade.) All these other manufacturers are coming up with other things like Skype on the TV. This might not be too bad but it involves buying a hi-def camera for that TV too.

Tablets. What can I say. Apple is said to release their tablet pretty soon and I'm sure that they want their stocks to go up, so releasing during CES wouldn't be in their best interest. Nor is it their usual MO. Still, the tablets at CES aren't generating as much excitement as expected. What will consumers actually think when they're at the shop? Dell's tablet looks really nice though. Lets see what Apple comes up with.

Exciting things? So far I like the Light Touch interactive projector and Plastic Logic's lightweight e-reader. Since CES isn't done yet I'm hoping there's more to get excited about.

-P