I think I’ve heard about Skype from more people than there are in China. I’ve finally decided to download and try it out.
Cross-platform - nice.
RPM package is available for Fedora Core 3, which worked just fine on Fedora Core 4 - nice.
I don’t have not even a single microphone - not nice.
Even if I had, talking would have been difficult most times (office people or kid shouting or sleeping at home) - not nice.
Possibility to call regular/mobile phones from the computer for an extremely low price - nice.
Chat is built-in - nice.
User identification is based on nicknames, not emails (which change) or ugly long numbers (which are impossible to remember) - nice. (My nickname is mamchenkov, by the way).
Without any contacts and without microphone, I can’t really check the functionality or the interface thoroughly.
Do any of you, guys, use Skype? How do I contact you?
16 responses so far ↓
1
Harley
// Feb 14, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Harley_LRN
2
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 14, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Thanks
Testing… Looks good. 
3
Constantinos Kouloumbris
// Feb 14, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Mine is justckr. Skype rocks.
4
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 14, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Constantinos,
Skype says that it couldn’t find neither justckr, nor ckr… Are you sure you typed it correctly?
5 Lev Shuvalov » Skype // Feb 15, 2006 at 11:45 am
[...] I have to install skype a long time ago for some project purpose, but I delay as much as I can. But I could resist any longer after Skype anyone? and Got Skyped My skype name is lev_shuvalov. [...]
6
Constantinos Kouloumbris
// Feb 15, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Thats strange, the skypename is justckr and I have others on my contacts to confirm it :P. I’ve added you, you should get a message saying if you want to add me.
7
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 15, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Yup, I found you. It was probably skype problem.
8
Sergey
// Feb 16, 2006 at 1:06 am
forget Skype! GTalk (and generally Jabber) forever! :))
9
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 16, 2006 at 2:55 am
Sergey,
1. I had only negative experiences with Jabber so far. Maybe that’s just me. Maybe that will change.
2. Jabber, AFAIK, does not support any voice messages even between two clients, not to mention conferencing with a mix of regular phones. (hint: not everyone can type as fast as they can talk)
3. Jabber has no cool gadgets, as does Skype. (try making my wife type in Russian, instead of talking on a phone-like appliance, and you’ll know what I mean)
4. I don’t think I’ll trust Google with my IM. While I do trust ICQ and other commercial companies with my IM data, Google is the only smart enough company to actually do something with the data I’m providing.
10 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov » More on Skype // Feb 16, 2006 at 4:18 am
[...] Now, just a couple of days ago I wrote that I decided to try Skype. I downloaded it and installed on my computer. There were few nice things about it that I noticed immediately, but there are so many more that need a second look! [...]
11
Lev Shuvalov
// Feb 16, 2006 at 11:00 am
Are you going to order
Go wireless with Olympia Cordless DUALphone ?
12
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 16, 2006 at 11:10 am
Lev,
not yet. It seems that it doesn’t work on Linux. If anyone will confirm otherwise, then this is a very probable choice.
13
Lev Shuvalov
// Feb 16, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Seems so, but you can fix that lacking
14
Leonid Mamchenkov
// Feb 17, 2006 at 12:38 am
Lev,
not necessarily…
15 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov // Feb 21, 2006 at 8:58 am
Again with an ‘S’ word
This is yet another post that mentions Skype. As you probably know by now after reading this and that posts, I am really enjoying Skype.
In order to expand the joy, I decided to follow my brother, and buy headphones with microphone to use voice featu…
16 Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov // Mar 27, 2006 at 11:31 am
Got Skyped
After reading a post on my brothers site I decided to check up Skype and I think I “got skyped”. I have it up and running. My nickname is “alex_mamchenkov”.
…
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