skype seems to be living up to it's hype. i love this app, my favorite since cuseeme.. skype has plans to add video in the future btw.
we are using it here to keep in touch with each other and coordinate.
I am using skype to call from malaysia (dsl) to california (dialup) and i am STUNNED at the quality and low latency in skype. This is the 1st voip app I have used that does not require headsets to cancel nanoying echo when talking to people on dialup connects.
broadband to broadband is better than using the phone when it comes to delay, dialup is about the same or better. i am used to 1/2 second delay on calls from asia to usa.
the product is beta, they have mentioned plans for mac, pocketpc & linux further down the road.
true disruptive technology folks. i have both my parents, brother and sister using it to keep in contact. i have spoke to them more in the last month than in the last year, because of skype.
there are other solutions out there, picophone, speakfreely, etc. the problem is latency. if you have an echo then people don't want to use it. headsets are a pain in the ass, switching out plugs from speakers to headphones.. people just don't do it. the difference here is that it works (through firewalls & nat also) well enough that anyone can use it easily and the quality is good enough to speak natural.
can't say enough good things about it. i am hoping they come out with symbian version for phones like nokia 3650. imagine making calls through your nokia phone using your pc's connection via bluetooth.
user/pass=guest/guest if someone is already logged in make a new user, email
address not required but it asks, so that if you forget your pass it can email
it to you..
Malaysia
is really taking a hit. Japan seems to be pulling out of Malaysia and investing
more in China. I spent about 3 months going all
over Malaysia this past year. Very interesting place. Everyone
speaks English, good education, strong support of tech by the government. Penang
is having a really hard go of it though since it is tied to manufacturing and
tourism, 2 areas that are not doing so well right now.
Things they lack, free press,
free speech, free beer... Hardly any Linux developers there! Seems to be a few
years behind the US, no PHP people, few Perl developers. They are still on the
MSCE wagon train and taking VB classes.
I am impressed with Putrajaya
though, 10 gigabit fiber to the home and wireless access points all over town
! Too bad there is no place to eat there though.. Too
far from KL also, hard to get people to work in the MSC.
I am moving there in a few months & getting married to a girl I met on
CU-SeeMe:) Wish me luck.
I find it ironic that the current
chairman and former CEO of Adobe was quoted as saying that one of the
worst parts of being
kidnapped is the forced separation from ones family. Isn't that
what he has ( in part ) done to Sklyarov ?
Timeline Inc., Torrance, CA, Tel: 310-784-5488, FAX: 310-784-7590 is now selling
"surplus" PROXIM RF Modems for $99.00 each. "Installation schematics
and application details" are also available from Timeline.
How about 20 scantily clad girls living on the space station ? Hookup webcams
and sell the feeds to affiliates.
Just to top it off do a Survivor spin and have them vote each other off.
Try Radioshack's
Sloped-top floor rack. 28 spaces (12 slope, 16 bottom) Front and rear rails,
casters (two locking). Can't beat the price, it looks cool and has wheels..
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skype seems to be living up to it's hype. i love this app, my favorite since cuseeme.. skype has plans to add video in the future btw. we are using it here to keep in touch with each other and coordinate.
I am using skype to call from malaysia (dsl) to california (dialup) and i am STUNNED at the quality and low latency in skype. This is the 1st voip app I have used that does not require headsets to cancel nanoying echo when talking to people on dialup connects.
broadband to broadband is better than using the phone when it comes to delay, dialup is about the same or better. i am used to 1/2 second delay on calls from asia to usa.
the product is beta, they have mentioned plans for mac, pocketpc & linux further down the road.
true disruptive technology folks. i have both my parents, brother and sister using it to keep in contact. i have spoke to them more in the last month than in the last year, because of skype.
there are other solutions out there, picophone, speakfreely, etc. the problem is latency. if you have an echo then people don't want to use it. headsets are a pain in the ass, switching out plugs from speakers to headphones.. people just don't do it. the difference here is that it works (through firewalls & nat also) well enough that anyone can use it easily and the quality is good enough to speak natural.
can't say enough good things about it. i am hoping they come out with symbian version for phones like nokia 3650. imagine making calls through your nokia phone using your pc's connection via bluetooth.
or pocket pc skype at hotspots, very cool indeed.
For Dean supporters living overseas, Expats4Dean blog
an article here suggests they use this
The robotic camera they are using on the laptop robot is a smilecam from sintec from Korea. We are using the same camera in a php camera server app you can demo here
user/pass=guest/guest if someone is already logged in make a new user, email address not required but it asks, so that if you forget your pass it can email it to you..
is this for real ? anyone else heard of DMT/ALTA ?
Things they lack, free press , free speech, free beer... Hardly any Linux developers there! Seems to be a few years behind the US, no PHP people, few Perl developers. They are still on the MSCE wagon train and taking VB classes.
I am impressed with Putrajaya though, 10 gigabit fiber to the home and wireless access points all over town ! Too bad there is no place to eat there though.. Too far from KL also, hard to get people to work in the MSC .
I am moving there in a few months & getting married to a girl I met on CU-SeeMe :) Wish me luck.
IEEE 802.11a is standard compliant up to 54 Mbps, now who is the troll ?
This is great for getting pr0n , so I hear ;)
check out my Linux / PHP / Apache Powered Robotic Streaming WebcamI wonder if this is our innate reaction to the hissing sound of a snake ?
a better article devoted to the kidnapping in which the word family is mentioned 32 times
I find it ironic that the current chairman and former CEO of Adobe was quoted as saying that one of the worst parts of being kidnapped is the forced separation from ones family. Isn't that what he has ( in part ) done to Sklyarov ?
Timeline Inc., Torrance, CA, Tel: 310-784-5488, FAX: 310-784-7590 is now selling "surplus" PROXIM RF Modems for $99.00 each. "Installation schematics and application details" are also available from Timeline.
linux robotic webcam - no plugs - no java
I would like to see how this works with video encoding.. MPEG4 ...
here is one that you can actually afford. this thing rocks !! take a look - i am salivating now
I might actually watch that, would you?
i heard that iomojo is adding telephony support, quicknet cards and others. this should be an nice opensource option for people wanting to get free voip with video capabilities.
look at my fishtank cam , powered by linux, php, mysql & apache
this is the correct link to your fishtank