RE: [Sheflug] Re: messengers

["George Rammos" <GeorgeRammos [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a Xirling USB camera, bought for £12 from Ideal Computing in Edinburgh
a couple of years back.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk [mailto:shef-lug-
> admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Beaumont
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:21 PM
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: messengers
> 
> George Rammos wrote:
> > Kopete by far is the best Messenger I have ever used. And yes, it will
> do
> > smileys. It is fantastic to have all my friends (I call them friends!)
> from
> > ICQ (good old days), MSN (bad new days) and Yahoo, in one nice and clean
> > interface.
> >
> > Gnomeeting, as installed by Suse 9.1 worked like a charm with my £12 USB
> no
> > name Camera. I managed (not that I had to try hard) to have a
> conversation
> > between gnomeeting and MS Netmeeting and I was well impressed.
> >
> > I think, slowly Linux is going to get a bigger and bigger partition in
> my
> > Hard Drive!
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk [mailto:shef-lug-
> >>admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Ibbotson
> >>Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:01 PM
> >>To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> >>Subject: [Sheflug] Re: messengers
> >>
> >>Doug
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm wanting to install linux on my mum's pc.  Suse or mandrake are
> >>>ideal for her.  She only uses her pc for the odd games, e-mail,
> >>>browsing, webcam and messengers.
> >>>So before I go and install....which she is happy for me to do, I
> >>>need to find out that she can still do what she does now.
> >>>I don't use messengers myself,  but are the messengers on offer as
> >>>good as aol, msn and yahoo?  Can they still send smiley's etc?
> >>
> >>Kopete
> >>
> >>http://kopete.kde.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>>Can
> >>>anyone recommend a program for the webcam?  To enable chat etc
> >>
> >>Gnomemeeting but check out the hardware and make sure it works :)
> >>
> >>http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
> >>
> >>Was thinking about having a go at this myself but can't find someone
> >>to try it out on.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Richard
> >>
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> 
> Sorry to go off topic slightly but would mind telling me what that USB
> web cam was? I've been looking for a cheap Linux compatible web cam for
> a while.
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