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From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: OT: VOIP clients for Windows and Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919000721.GA16031@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F04E7B.8090204@clearwire.net>

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Greg


On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:17:31PM +0100, Gaijin wrote:
>      Hello,
> 	
>      I was wondering if there was still any old-fashioned, direct,
> computer to computer VOIP clients out there that  *don't* go through
> some 3rd-party service like Skype, that will run on both Windows and
> Linux, or at least Windows, so a friend can do some remote
> troubleshooting of my WinXP box.  I was hoping to just email or phone
> this friend our IP numbers, input it into a simple VOIP client, and be
> able to speak to each other while he troubleshoots my system.  I only
> have a cell phone, and the battery is only good for about an hour per
> day, leaving me up the creek if I ever need to dial 911.  All the client
> needs to do is create a voice connection between two computers, without
> any frils, IP to IP.  We both can't afford 20-odd phone systems, just to
> stay in touch, and everything out there now seems to require that
> everything pass through some middle-man or service that now has to be
> paid for.  I'm wondering whatever happened to software like
> see-you-see-mee, or whatever that video-chat program was called, that
> was being used on IRC, or the old I-Phone software...wherever they went.
>   I'm looking for the cheapest, free voice communications software that
> there is for Windows, and if possible, that will also work on Linux.
> Any clues would be appreciated.  TIA,
> 
>          Michael
> 
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gaijin
 ` Nick Stockton
   ` Janina Sajka
     ` Dawes, Stephen
       ` Janina Sajka
     ` Nick Stockton
       ` Janina Sajka
   ` Doug Smith
 ` Gregory Nowak [this message]

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