[dba-Tech] Interseting piece of software

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 12 11:44:00 CDT 2008


Here is an interesting piece of software that is new or new to me.

First the preamble: For a couple of years I have been using or trying to use
'Skype' as my long distance phone provider. The first year was a demo year,
so there were no costs and I ran the product up on all the workstations. The
next year I purchased it but just for my main business station. Now it works
intermittently... It appears that the paid version of 'Skype' tries to make
sure its license is not being abused by being run on multiple stations. The
navigation of my router and server system is too complex for its little
brain, at one point it produces a false negative and it stops running. No
amount of calls and emails to Skype support has resolved the issue as it
would probably take a redesign to fix their product.  

My son-in-law has sent me a link to what appears to be the next generation
of internet long distance provider software and I am curious if anyone else
is using, tried to use Gizmo?: http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php

Jim 




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