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[Frank V]

Posted by Joao (here)
Hello,
I have recently installed Ubunto 14.04 in my HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC and I would like to install a program able to video call, call, and send written messages to Skype contacts ( most of them are family and old friends who don't want to switch for more private methods of conversation ) but I wouldn't like to actually have Skype on my PC ... Is that possible to do?
On the beginning of this thread some more secure messaging programs are mentioned like Cryptocat , Jitsi , Linphone and others but are they able to also communicate with Skype contacts ? And if yes how?
Thank you all once again and sorry for my Spam of questions in this thread,
Joao

I personally have no experience with Skype or its alternatives, but from what I've been able to make up from a quick search, it would appear that in order to be compatible with your Skype contacts, you yourself actually do need to have Skype on your computer - it can be installed by way of Synaptic, by adding the non-free repository to your package manager - because Skype uses a proprietary protocol. So while there are alternatives - which do use open standard protocols - they are not actually compatible with Skype itself, or so it seems.

Of course, I could be wrong, and in that case, I hope someone will correct me in this matter.

[araucaria]

Posted by Aragorn (here)

Posted by countertheanimator (here)
One thing i found somewhat ridiculous is when you said carbon dioxides bring global warming is a hoax. It clearly is not scam, but this is not the topic for it.

Um, no. Carbon dioxides only make up for 0.04% of the atmosphere, which is negligible compared to the respective percentages of the other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. Methane is far more dangerous in that regard, and even water vapor can act as a greenhouse gas.

In addition to that, in typical political spin tradition, statistics are being used like a drunken man uses a lamp post, i.e. for support, rather than illumination. Human arrogance by default dismisses any influences the sun may have on the climate - while it has already been proven that a powerful coronal mass ejection does seriously influence the climate - as well as the poisonous non-greenhouse emissions from the industry, or experiments done with HAARP and chemtrails.

Off topic, but I agree. Even if you take CO2 as a temperature indicator, a thermometer if you will, the best fit is 800 years down the line, not contemporary. Check out this site: http://wattsupwiththat.com/