It feels rather strange reviewing a software program that does absolutely nothing. If you start Dud it will immediately terminate its process using 60 Kilobytes of computer memory in the short meantime. The question that is probably in your mind right now is about the usefulness of a program like Dud. Why would someone want to run a software program that terminates a second after execution? The answer is…
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Dud Is A Program That Does Nothing
I have just created a new Twitter account for my Software company. Since it's such a buzz and I am getting to like it more and more every day, I checked out to see if @simpatic is available and since it was, I have registered it. Then I tried to see if searching for my personal Twitter user (@vladges) will work (because in the my first few Twitter days I could not find myself...) so I searched for 'vladges' on Twitter's Find People page.
So guess what? Twitter said: "Did you mean ladies ?"
WOW! I must say that feels good (I guess) to know that my username on Twitter is considered a misspell of ladies!
Wait, what are you implying? That I am some sort of misspelled lady? Hey, stop laughing, I'm talking to you!!!
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PS: Yes, I did find myself on Twitter this time. I think tweeting about a few times was worth it :) Get lost! :)
Since I installed my brand new Fedora 10 distribution a while ago I was unable to use Skype for more than just a chat engine. I had no sound and no recording device, so I was unable to call my friends. And since I am using Pidgin as a Yahoo Messenger replacement on Linux, which I am not really familiar (or fond on the other hand), I was getting a little frustrated of the silence and loneliness surrounding me.
Today I decided to fix this matter so I started searching for what to do to enable Skype sound. I found many threads, but none of which really fixed the issue. In the end, I started the plain old fashioned way of testing the configurations one by one to see which will work. And eventually, I did find the right one. I make a succesfull Skype test call to echo123 and also called one of my friends, Paul (thankx), to confirm that my "out-of-the-barrel" sounding is gone forever!
Please note that because of the many things I tried before getting this to work, I might miss something from this process. If this will not fix the Skype sound for you too, then what you can try is to remove the "Alsa to PulseAudio backend" (alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10) rpm (I did it using the System->Administration->Add/Remove Software GUI tool, search for "alsa").
Ok, so I set my audio settings to look like the image below (System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound):
Then, in Skype Options (right click the tray icon, choose "Options", then in the left select "Sound devices") you should have something like below:
Again, this is not a general tutorial, guide or FAQ about how to enable Skype sound/mic, this is what worked for me and might also work for you. If you have problems, leave your comment and maybe we can sort it out for you too.