Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Bret Busby wrote:

> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:31:23
> From: Bret Busby <bret busby net>
> Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
>
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Genghis Khan wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST)
> > el_gallo_azul <el_gallo_azul yahoo com> wrote:
> >
> > > I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used
> > > Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test.
> > >
> > > 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga
> > > 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help.
> >
> > Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask?
> > As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues
> > which make Ekiga to freeze.
>
> Hello.
>
> I do not know whether this message will get through.
>
> I have previously been unable to post to the list, and messages sent to 
> people asking for assistance with the mailing list, have been unacknowledged.
>
> I have both Ekiga and Skype installed.
>
> The version of Ekiga that is in the Debian 6 (current stable version of 
> Debian Linux) repository, is Ekiga 3.2.7-2.
>
> I have noticed with test calls (that is all that I have been able to make, so 
> far, with both Skype and Ekiga - haven't yet "connected up" with anyone, 
> family or otherwise, who have made contact with me via Skype or Ekiga), that 
> the Ekiga video of me, is highly pixellated, and is of low resolution, 
> compared with Skype.
>
> The version of Skype that I have installed, is 2.2.0.35-1, which I believe 
> (but may be wrong) was in the Debian package repository when I installed 
> Debian 6 on this computer. I assume that the existence of Skype in the Debian 
> package repository, is from before when Microsoft took over Skype.
>
> I am aware that both Ekiga and Skype are in versions 4.x, not, but installing 
> Skype from the cuirrent version, on Debian amd64, appears to now be too 
> complicated.
>
> And, there is a weiord thing on the Skype web site - it shows that Skype is 
> available for Debian, only for Debian 7 multiarch (?) which has not yet been 
> released, and, it takes a bit of digging around on the Skype web site, to 
> find the references to installing Skype on Debian 6.
>
> Anyway, the latest version of Ekiga that shows in the Debian package 
> repository, for Debian 6, is the Ekiga v 3.2.7-2, that I mentioned above as 
> being installed on this computer, which is running Debian 6.0.x amd64, on an 
> Intel I3 CPU.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>  written by Douglas Adams,
>  published by Pan Books, 1992
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Yes!

It got through...

:)

I have just tried, using my version of Ekiga, to call the poster of the 
original message in the thread, to find what would happen.

I got "User is not available".

Oh, well...

I tried.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams,
  published by Pan Books, 1992
....................................................