Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-11 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:12:41AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > Hum; but is it better? They claim to be able to offer the service > > to dialup clients as well - not just broadband users. > > Define "better". 2. Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safet

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-11 Thread larry price
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:15:56 -0800, Jeff_W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff_W wrote: > > > > > Hum; but is it better? They claim to be able to offer the service > > > to dialup clients as well - not just broadband users. Several of the free codecs for

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-11 Thread Jeff_W
Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff_W wrote: > > > Hum; but is it better? They claim to be able to offer the service > > to dialup clients as well - not just broadband users. > > Define "better". Is WMV better than MPEG? Is RealAudio or AAC > better than Ogg? Is Windows better than Net

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-11 Thread larry price
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:12:41 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff_W wrote: > Currently, there is an open standard for VoIP and a bunch of small > players. There's no natural monopoly as long as the bulk of users > stay with the open protocols. If a critical number of people adopt a

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-11 Thread Bob Miller
Jeff_W wrote: > Hum; but is it better? They claim to be able to offer the service > to dialup clients as well - not just broadband users. Define "better". Is WMV better than MPEG? Is RealAudio or AAC better than Ogg? Is Windows better than NetBSD? AOL better than Willamette.NET? eBooks bette

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-10 Thread larry price
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:31:54 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not even sure Skype is the same company that puts out Kazaa. I > don't believe that's the case, but could be wrong. Anyhow, great > product. google showed me this http://ipcentral.info/blog/2004/11/more-on-skype-kazaa.h

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-10 Thread perdurabo
Skype is very cool and works very well. I use it all the time on OS X, in leiu of my work and mobile phones. It doesn't have any spyware as far as I know (I have a pretty nazi firewall that lets me know when weird packets are a'flowin' I'm not even sure Skype is the same company that puts out Kaza

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-10 Thread Jeff_W
Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff_W wrote: > > > Skype-1.0 for Linux is out; anyone using it? It sounds very cool: > > > > http://www.skype.com/products/ > > Skype uses a proprietary, incompatible protocol. I suggest you look > at Free World Dialup (www.freeworlddialup.com), as it's

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-10 Thread Bob Miller
Jeff_W wrote: > Skype-1.0 for Linux is out; anyone using it? It sounds very cool: > > http://www.skype.com/products/ Skype uses a proprietary, incompatible protocol. I suggest you look at Free World Dialup (www.freeworlddialup.com), as it's completely free[Beer] and has a couple of Linux clien

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Cherba
A number of my coworkers are on Skype on a combination of Windows, Linux and OSX. It has worked pretty well so far, but I'm in the process of finding something open source and SIP based that I can replace it with. Any ideas? Gnomeeting is out for a number of reasons. -Mike On W

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-09 Thread John Sechrest
skype has been out for a while, several months. This is just the latest revision. We had a talk in corvallis last month about Asterisk. It is an interesting collection of tools. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jeff=5FW?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % Skype-1.0 for Linux is out; anyone using it? It sounds

Re: [Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-09 Thread larry price
This is the one from the same people who do a spyware infested filesharing network isn't it...? (Sharman networks, Kazaa) it's also proprietary and nonstandard technology. Umm, thanks, but I think I'll go for a little more trustworthy source. On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:34:39 -0800, Jeff_W <[EMAIL PR

[Eug-lug] Can you Skype me now?

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff_W
Skype-1.0 for Linux is out; anyone using it? It sounds very cool: http://www.skype.com/products/ -Jeff ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug