Just had a great idea...
Sergeant Tibbs
my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
It's free to anyone who also has it,
I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
and have broadband
and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
...
a Skype conference call at some set time?
Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to get
the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members, (myself
included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a Skype call?
Sergeant Tibbs
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Yowie
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>I use it because it rocks, and
> my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
> It's free to anyone who also has it,
>
>
> I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
>
> and have broadband
>
> and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
>
> ...
>
>
>
> a Skype conference call at some set time?
>
> Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to get
> the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members, (myself
> included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a Skype call?
I'm in. We have Skype here, although rarely use it.
Having organised large IM 'meets', experience tells me that the best time to
get everyone on-line tends to be mid afternoon / early evening for USAnians,
late evening for UK people, and early morning for us Aussies (and even
earlier morning for Kiwis) on a Saturday night / Sunday morning.
Yowie
Joseph Littleshoes
Interesting idea, i just looked at the skype site and if i understand it
correctly people can talk, verbally speak THROUGH their computers to
other skype users?
I just found out i can actually talk to my computer and get it to do
things, so far only its chess program and im not sure if i want to train
it to do any more, me 'elderly relative' looked askance at me the other
day when she caught me talking to my computer in chess code. Thought i
had finally gone 'round the bend' out to the back forty, over the edge
etc. etc.
Which reminds me of the Jerry Brown (Mayor of Oakland, former Governor
of California) Joke about his Official Gubernatorial Portrait at the
Capitol building in Sacramento.
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JL
De Roberts
DAVID ROBERTS
"Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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Some friends and I have a standing IM chat every Wed. night. We tend to come
and go based on our schedules but it is a lot of fun. I have had Skype but
didn't use it cause no one else I know had a microphone. : )
De
Sergeant Tibbs
a microphone headset (from $10-$50) and have encrypted voice
conversations with anyone else using Skype. Mine's a Logitech headset,
branded with the Guild Wars logo, that I got for allowing ArenaNet to
have kinky sex with my wallet when I bought the Collector's Edition
boxset. It sounds fantastic and it's so comfortable I forget about it.
Anyway, once you get Skype and a username, any voice conferencing with
any other Skype user is totally free, and it also lets you SkypeOut--or,
call any regular or cell phone) for extremely cheap rates. Think about
just under 2 cents per minute to any of the G8 countries.
Plus, it autoadjusts, so you don't have to fiddle around with volume
levels or your soundcard settings (much) for people to hear you exactly
as if it were a regular phone.
Sergeant Tibbs
> I use it because it rocks, and
> my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
> It's free to anyone who also has it,
>
>
> I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
>
> and have broadband
>
> and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
>
> ...
>
>
>
> a Skype conference call at some set time?
>
> Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to get
> the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members, (myself
> included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a Skype call?
>
>
> Sergeant Tibbs
>
...
my Skype profile is nuclear_waffle for anyone interested. Perhaps one
signals their interest by posting their Skype profile, or through emailing?
Email to fezzi...@gmail.comspam (take out the spam). Or just Skype
me. I'll be on for the next few nights specifically for that purpose.
(through Saturday, and then through next week) My profile is up all the
time so if you try when I'm not there I'll probably see a confirmation
note or something when I get back.
Sergeant Tibbs
They're really cheap now, but quality is going to cost you just over $30
US. However even the cheapies work well.
Sergeant Tibbs
> Sergeant Tibbs wrote:
>> I use it because it rocks, and
>> my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
>> It's free to anyone who also has it,
>>
>>
>> I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
>>
>> and have broadband
>>
>> and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> a Skype conference call at some set time?
>>
>> Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to
>> get the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members,
>> (myself included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a
>> Skype call?
>>
>>
>> Sergeant Tibbs
>>
>
> ...
>
> my Skype profile is nuclear_waffle for anyone interested. Perhaps one
> signals their interest by posting their Skype profile, or through emailing?
>
> Email to fezzi...@gmail.comspam (take out the spam). Or just Skype
> me. I'll be on for the next few nights specifically for that purpose.
> (through Saturday, and then through next week) My profile is up all the
> time so if you try when I'm not there I'll probably see a confirmation
> note or something when I get back.
>
> Sergeant Tibbs
>
Actually I'm looking at it and finding out a few things...
Conference calls cost separately for each person (ie, you would pay the
cost of calling as many people as were connected, or three people =
three calls simultaneously)
Conference calls only support five people. Maybe an IM voice session
would work better as those without mikes could type.
Sergeant Tibbs
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-A.
> Sergeant Tibbs wrote:
>
>> I use it because it rocks, and
>> my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
>> It's free to anyone who also has it,
>>
>>
>> I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
>>
>> and have broadband
>>
>> and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> a Skype conference call at some set time?
>>
>> Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to
>> get the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members,
>> (myself included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a
>> Skype call?
>>
>>
>> Sergeant Tibbs
>>
>
> ...
>
> my Skype profile is nuclear_waffle for anyone interested. Perhaps one
> signals their interest by posting their Skype profile, or through emailing?
>
> Email to fezzi...@gmail.comspam (take out the spam). Or just Skype
> me. I'll be on for the next few nights specifically for that purpose.
> (through Saturday, and then through next week) My profile is up all the
> time so if you try when I'm not there I'll probably see a confirmation
> note or something when I get back.
>
> Sergeant Tibbs
>
I just have to ask: is the gmail account name because of The Princess Bride?
Blessed Be,
-A.
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> I use it because it rocks, and
> my friends use it to call home (way back home in Manchester)
> It's free to anyone who also has it,
>
>
> I recommend for those ARWM members who live in very disparate locations
>
> and have broadband
>
> and can parse time zone conversion better than I can
>
> ...
>
>
>
> a Skype conference call at some set time?
>
> Imagine in lieu of meets, many of which can't drive, boat, or fly to get
> the thousands of miles it takes to find other arwm members, (myself
> included) we simply figure out a global time to join in on a Skype call?
>
>
> Sergeant Tibbs
>
Well, I don't own a microphone (yet), but I am interested. I might pick
one up this weekend.
Sergeant Tibbs
It was, until I read the credits and noticed the correct spelling was
Fezzik. I liked my version better, so I don't try to say I pulled it
from TPB since the spelling's off.
'Thenie
>
> Well, I don't own a microphone (yet), but I am interested. I might pick
> one up this weekend.
>
> Blessed Be,
I have one, just hadn't gotten around to figuring out how to use it yet...
Any clues for the clueless on signing up and connecting and using Skype?
-'Thenie
feeling more the old fogey all the time
De Roberts
"Sergeant Tibbs" <gsapr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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I was just going to suggest that. Now if we can find an IM everyone uses.
: ) I prefer aim. My buddy name is deroberts123.
De
Joseph Littleshoes
There's also IRC chat rooms that can be set up specifically for ARWM. I
can be IM'ed via AOL IM as 'vonstifel'
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JL
-A.
Heck, why not. On AIM, I'm 'TheGreatCodeGod'. Loooooooooooong story
behind the name - and, no, I wasn't the one who picked it: I was dubbed
that back when I was 16. I don't have that kind of hubris when it comes
to names for myself.
Sergeant Tibbs
Sure, follow this process.
Go here: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading.html
and press the Download button.
Follow the directions on that page.
Once Skype is installed on your computer it will ask you to setup an
account (if I remember). Simply follow the instructions there to get
your shiny new account set up.
Attach your microphone. If it's not a headset version you have to make
sure it's fairly distant from your speakers so you don't get feedback or
echo.
In Skype, go to Tools/Options. Under Sound Devices you'll see two
important things-- the first is a check box that says "Let Skype adjust
my sound device settings." Make sure that's checked. Second, at the
bottom, you'll see "Make a test call to Skype answering machine." Click
on that and it will call a recording with a thick Luxembourg accent to
make sure you can both hear and speak properly through Skype. If all
sounds well, then you're set, and others will hear you normally.
If the answering service is too quiet: Go into your Audio devices
settings in Windows and turn up your speakers a bit, and try again.
If your recorded voice is too quiet: Go into your Audio settings in
Windows and turn up your microphone a bit. Make sure it's muted, also.
(It'll work properly Muted)
Any questions?
Joseph Littleshoes
>> Which reminds me of the Jerry Brown (Mayor of Oakland, former Governor
>> of California) Joke about his Official Gubernatorial Portrait at the
>> Capitol building in Sacramento.
>> ---
>> JL
Seems Jerry, when Governor of California, had an impressionistic, modern
art portrait of himself painted as his "Official Portrait" by the same
artist who did the old 1970's cover art for the Erick Clapton album with
the song "Layla" on it.
Later he went to the capitol and found his portrait that he had had hung
up was taken down (powers that be didn't like it, thought it
'inappropriate'), and supposedly, he went running around the Capitol
building yelling "I'm off the wall! I'm off the wall!"
To which the only response he could get was "we know Jerry, we know"
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JL