<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I skip all the mess completely by using Voip. Mine is by igonet.com. I'm waiting for magicjack.com to come up with Canadian phone numbers.<br><br>kind regards<br>Abidel<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:48:28 PM<br><b><sp
an style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TLUG]: Speakerphone for Ubuntu 8.10?<br></font><br>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen<br><<a
ymailto="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org" href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:<br>>> Looks like I might have to be on a work conference call tonight, using Skype.<br>>><br>>> I had Skype working when my system was using Fedora 8, but an upgrade<br>>> to F9 went badly so I moved to Ubuntu 8.10. I installed Skype recently<br>>> but couldn't get it to work with my USB headset. Now I'm looking at<br>>> have a colleague over for the conference call, so I'd like to have<br>>> some sort of speakerphone setup.<br>>><br>>> I've googled for this (skype ubuntu speakerphone -headset) and found<br>>> this page from 2.5 y
ears ago:<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.hotvoipnews.com/blog_46.shtml"
target="_blank">http://www.hotvoipnews.com/blog_46.shtml</a><br>>><br>>> The unit sure looks cool, but I'm not sure I can source one here in<br>>> Toronto in the next six hours .. unless someone on the list can a)<br>>> suggest a local store that might carry this unit or b) tell me that<br>>> using a bog-standard microphone plugged into my sound card should work<br>>> fine.<br>>><br>>> Comments?<br>><br>> Skype sucks. The protocol is disgusting from a network point of view.<br><br>Possibly. That's not my concern right now -- the conference call is on<br>Skype, so if I want to take part, a Skype-ing I will go. :)<br><br>> So far I highly encourage people to switch to something standards<br>> compliant, like sip and h.323.&nb
sp; I use ekiga, which uses those standards,<br>> and has windows and linux software available and works with lots of<br>> other programs (including I believe
microsoft netmeeting).<br><br>Ekiga (formerly known as GnomeMeeting) looks interesting, and I'll try<br>it out. Thanks for the suggestion.<br><br>-- <br>Alex Beamish<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>aka talexb<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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