Buying a USB stick is a day's pay for her. She makes about a dollar an
hour. If I sent her one, the customs inspectors of the People's
Republic of China might confiscate it because it has unapproved content
on it. She won't take money from me so I can't just wire her a hundred
bucks.
She isn't computer literate enough for that. The college that she
went to didn't own any computers. She got a bachelor's degree in cobalt
without ever sitting at a computer. The professor lectured on how to
write programs from a blackboard and then the students submitted their
programs on paper and he graded them with a red pen.
When I try to install Windows programs on a flash drive, it often puts
crucial code on the hard drive of the computer that I am using and then
won't run. You also can't run install programs in Windows at all from
a Windows computer with admiinistrative protections on it.
I went Linux partly to keep from having to deal with the non-sense that
Windows was. (ever get a scratch on your restore CD's?)
Somebody just sent me Skype 2 deb and I will see if that works. I want
to give her the laptop that I am using when I see her so I want to be
sure that it is flawless. Her favourite radio station uses an ASF
protocol and that drove me nuts before I got it to work in Movie Player.
On 08/16/2012 08:57 AM, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote:
Perhaps another option would be to build a USB stick with Chrome on it
with all the necessary plugins?
http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2011/11/16/chrome-browser-on-a-usb-flash-drive-with-accessibility/
You could also build a whole OS on a stick, but that would require
rebooting the cafe system, which they might not like.
Mike
On 08/16/2012 08:35 AM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
What version of Skype is installed?
Did you try installing the version from Skype's website?
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/
I just d/l and ran the "dynamic" 4.0.0.8 version on my Company ( locked
) RHEL 6.3 and it works fine.
Sometimes the repositories are a version behind.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Mark Wallace
<[email protected] <mailto:[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.
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
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