On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:45, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011, 06:20:48 +0200, Rajko M. wrote:
On Monday, May 09, 2011 09:31:34 AM Manfred Hollstein wrote:
[...] Skype should be used as a from-time-to-time conversation vehicle, but as I'm paranoid, I'm not going to install the binary-only blob onto my real system. Instead I'm trying to build an appliance which boots off a USB stick and which will _not_ find (and potentially auto-mount) any existing partitions/filesystems on the real (hard) disk(s).
What about running skype in a virtual machine.
As I wrote (not in $SUBJECT, but in the message's body ;-), I want to store it on a USB stick so that I can carry it with me and boot from it on a random laptop without risking that any data on that system can be accessed.
It may not be worth the effort if this deal goes through... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576313932659388852.ht... Microsoft Near Deal to Acquire Skype Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org