Jack Chastain wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > If she has to install a plug in, she may not be able to do it on a > > computer cafe system. > > > > To my knowledge, you need to install the GoogleTalk plugin to use Google > Video Chat - and I know I cannot install it on my work system, so I am > going to guess it won't work for her unless she can either get the plugin > installed, or it is already there. If she can get it or it is there though, > I agree - it usually works pretty well.
Yeah, I figured that since the computers there had Skype installed there might be at least a chance they'd have the G-Talk plugin installed. I'd at least give it a try if you both have g-mail accounts. > > JackC > > > > On 08/15/2012 06:03 PM, Michael Muller wrote: > > > >> Mark Wallace wrote: > >> > >>> I teleconference with my fiancee on Skype every Friday Night. She goes > >>> to a computer cafe in Hong Kong, I use Skype via Linux. > >>> > >>> There was a new version of Skype in the upgrades that won't work on my > >>> system. If she starts her webcam, then her picture breaks up and Skype > >>> crashes on my system. Ubuntu 12.04 with Skype 4. The old one worked > >>> fine. Skype then loses all of it's settings. > >>> > >>> Remember, she can't install anything on her computer cafe computer. What > >>> do I do? PIdgin doesn't work wiith a lot of messenger services. > >>> > >> Have you tried g-mail video chat? I've found that to work pretty well on > >> most of the Linux systems I've used it on. > >> > >> Mark Wallace > >>> ______________________________**_________________ > >>> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > >>> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/mhvlug<http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug> > >>> > >>> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > >>> Sep 5 - Towards an Open Cloud with OpenStack > >>> Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > >>> Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > >>> > >>> > >> ==============================**==============================** > >> ================= > >> michaelMuller = [email protected] | > >> http://www.mindhog.net/~**mmuller<http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller> > >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** > >> ----------------- > >> There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs > >> as > >> possible and discard the failures. - Freeman Dyson > >> ==============================**==============================** > >> ================= > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Mark Wallace > > 20 N Franklin Street > > Athens, NY 12015 > > USA > > Telephone: 1-845-541-7396 > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/mhvlug<http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug> > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > > Sep 5 - Towards an Open Cloud with OpenStack > > Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > > Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > > > > > > -- > Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. > > Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. > Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life. > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them. - Bruce Schneier ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Sep 5 - Towards an Open Cloud with OpenStack Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
