I have recently been playing with a Vista laptop. Yes, I know.
Anyway, Skype doesn't work on it in my sister's flat. It does work in my flat. It's taken me days to figure out why: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934430 "Network connectivity may fail when you try to use Windows Vista behind a firewall device" Well it's a good thing that nobody uses firewalls or routers then, eh? The fix is to run the following as root^Wadministrator: netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal Now Microsoft is blaming my router's TCP implementation. That's strange, because Linux copes fine with it. And Mac OS X. And Windows XP. And the Wii. See, my thinking is that the TCP stack should be ultra flexible in order to make things work. It shouldn't break. It should work. It shouldn't automatically tune itself for speed and have a failure mode of broken. Tune yourself if you want but failure mode should be working but slow. IT SHOULDN'T BREAK. Grrr hate, Leon
