OT- Skype phone question

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 21 15:38:47 UTC 2009


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 00:45 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>   
>> Since her mother is an elderly lady who has never used a computer, I'm
>> thinking
>> that the solution would be for her to get an Internet connection and
>> one of
>> those Skype phones that plug directly into a modem with no computer
>> required.
>>     
>
> Don't be too sure. My wife's aunt is 84, has no understanding of
> technology, but uses Skype on her laptop every day, including video :-)
> It would be simple to set up a cheap netbook (most of which already come
> with Skype and a built-in webcam), so she just has to press the right
> buttons.
>
> poc
>
>   
I'm using Skype on a Asus 1000, Fedora 10.




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