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I just discovered Skype about a week ago. I wonder if those USB Skype box thingies will also work with Linux or Mac OS X, they're worth it (unlike the USB Skype phones with a short cord that looks like from a dollar store). Not really hard, just slightly inconvenient, but great savings and features. So I have an extra digit to dial on all numbers (1 then the number) for the VoIP box, and the Skype box has some buttons too. It's great overall, however it's a bit more complicated, especially given that my "POTS" line is actually coming from a VoIP box. It lets one dial out skype contacts easily too (my 53yo mom can make skype calls with it without having the slightest idea of how it all works). ![]() ![]() Gentoo users- 1.0 was in ~arch this morning!Īlthough I don't use it on Linux or Mac OS X, Skype works pretty well, voice quality is good, and the NAT traversal is nice - not so much with me, but it saves me from guiding technology-challenged family members and friends through opening ports in their firewall/router, having them read the screen out loud for you can't guess what options are on the screen (quite a pain).īut the nicest thing I did is buy a Skype box (the kind that plugs in your RJ11 and phone "passing thru" the POTS, and the USB port plugs to your PC, allowing you to use a real phone on skype - including having the phone ring (don't have to leave your 5.1 channel set of speakers on in case the "phone" would ring, no need turn monitor on and fumble with all that to take the call). The fact that you can do conferencing + IMs and voice chat is encrypte is a big plus. I also had some conferencing issues on my mac. In the 1.0 Mac version, someone who I was talking to suddenly cut out. Also, I had a weird thing happen where the skype screen is only half-drawn. In Linux, I've had problems getting conferencing working properly, when using a USB headset (/dev/dsp1), rings are not heard on the /dev/dsp as set in the preferences. I would think it's my machine only, but testing Skype requires (okay there is that echo account for testing, but you know what I mean) others, and others ahve been having problems too. I have noticed some problems though with both the 1.0.0.1 release of Linux and OS X's 1.0.0.0. ![]() I mean, they encrypt communication by deafult. Both work pretty well, and I get the feeling that Skype is pretty clueful as far as spyware goes. Not that I've found, and I've been using the betas for both Linux and OS X up to the release today. Record interviews skype mac os x for mac#PS, I just googled spyware for mac and found discussions on spyware, adds for PC spyware, and a mac company I'd never heard before with a broken website that promise a list of mac spyware "coming soon" and a forum that hasn't been updated by anyone in the company for over 6 months. Record interviews skype mac os x code#I would much rather you have said "yes you are naive, here are a list of Spyware apps for Linux and Mac." Instead you basically said "Yes it's possible to get spyware on your Mac or Linux box if someone bothered to code it and someone went around their ass to get to their elbow." What kind of logic is that? There is no rock hard evidence that either platform has any kind of penetration into spyware common on the PC. Record interviews skype mac os x install#In other words, you are saying it's very hard to install spyware on a Linux or Mac and therefore no one actually codes spyware for the Mac because they neither get enough people to be worth while nor is it as easy as say on a windows box and therefore no effective spyware programs exist. ![]()
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