Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20:10 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org articulated: What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? Gary, if you want to get your fill of FUD on this issue, I would strongly recommended that you visit the Slashdot site. It has been filled with bull-shit on this

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? /usr/ports/net/asterisk exists. Not used it, but compiling to try some time. It's been around years, eg

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Hey Guys, What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? I am sure MS will find a way to use it to

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:18:52AM -0400, Jerry wrote: Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:18:52 -0400 From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: Skyip? question To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based softphone). BTW, it does video too, though I've never tried that since I

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 23:24:11 Polytropon wrote: And keep in mind the data in the background: WHO communi- cates? WHERE does he communicate from, with WHOM, WHEN? Tech- nology allows answering questions even about WHAT has been spoken. Relations between individuals and there interests can

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, May 13, 2011 a las 12:19:38AM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: multimedia/webcamd works fine in 8-stable and HEAD (I'm using HEAD); a list of supported webcams in FreeBSD and what you need or what should work rises up here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Ah, great,

Skyip? question

2011-05-11 Thread Gary Kline
Hey Guys, What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-11 Thread Jon Radel
On 5/11/11 8:20 PM, Gary Kline wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Not all that trivial, really, but, frankly, rather beside the point. The value of communications networks is more than the technology,

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-11 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 May 2011 21:23:14 -0400, Jon Radel j...@radel.com wrote: On 5/11/11 8:20 PM, Gary Kline wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Not all that trivial, really, but, frankly, rather beside the