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Author Topic: Do you SKYPE? Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-02-2006 12:49 PM                     Yes, just do a search.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-02-2006 10:04 PM                     Uhhhh  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-02-2006 10:23 PM                     I've peed in airplanes before.  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 11-04-2006 05:59 AM                     Just to make sure everyone knows : Skype Not sky-pee. It's actually a pretty cool and cheap way to communicate verbally (if one still does that) without paying crazy long distance bills (if one still does that).  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-04-2006 05:39 PM                        I sure wish we could go back to the days before all companies felt they had to have cutesy-poo names like "Google," "Skype," "Yahoo," "Sprint," "Film-Tech," etc.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-04-2006 06:04 PM                     What days were those?  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 11-04-2006 09:40 PM                     "Those were the days my friend...I thought they never end....we sing and dance forever and a day" - Mary Hopkins. Yah, we had good names that meant something like - Kodak - Krispy Kreme - Winnebago - Crisco..... I love my Vonage set-up....I cuss too much at my sorry computer to have any "phone" attached. Time to go home  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-04-2006 10:42 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley I sure wish we could go back to the days before all companies felt they had to have cutesy-poo names like "Google," "Skype," "Yahoo," "Sprint," "Film-Tech," etc. Yeah, like my site for a while "68.51.162.64", don't bother trying it. Due to connection issues it's been moved. Now it's 71.something.something.something, I don't know the new IP, I have a few domains attached to it now. Load"terminal",8,1 loading.. ready. run  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-05-2006 07:06 AM                        My web site is 127.0.0.1!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-05-2006 02:18 PM                     There really is no place like 127.0.0.1 Also, I skype, but your more likely to catch me using traditional IM. Olpin8er on Skype AIM and iChat [ 11-05-2006, 06:51 PM: Message edited by: Mike Olpin ]  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-05-2006 09:17 PM                        Yeah, I keep to AOL/AIM, and sometimes Yahoo messenger. I used to do the IRC bit when I was...eh-hem...aquireing things, but I stopped that a long time ago. And when I played UO, ICQ was the best. I think I have MSN messenger, but I don't use it. But more than you wanted to know, glad to be of service.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-08-2006 04:37 AM                        I don't like the sound of Skype: as the software code has never been opened for scrutiny, there's at least a risk that some spyware is built into it, or that the application could be a trojan for other malware to get in. The application also loads at boot and stays in the background for as long as Windows is up. I suppose I might use it on an old laptop or PC which was used for that purpose only and had no personal data on its hard disc whatsoever, but I certainly wouldn't install it on my main PC.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-10-2006 05:21 AM                        free phone calls - this is also cool: http://jajah.com/  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 11-17-2006 01:14 PM                     Actually, Skype is pretty cool... Phoning all around the world for free... whoohooo!  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-19-2006 11:59 PM                     I use it to talk to a friend in Japan. It works quite well, very good sound and reasonably low lag comparable to normal phones on long distance, locally you do notice the lag. Until the end of the year you can call "real" phones in USA and Canada for free (they normally charge to do that). I found that if you install it on a computer with direct high speed intenet, after a day or so with the computer left on it starts to hog resources and have a lot of open connections, basically becoming a hub. Behind a NAT router it doesn't seem to do that.  |  IP: Logged

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