Alex a écrit : My wife costed me roughtly 500 EUR a month in international calls using EPT. My wife costed me about 150 EUR a month in international calls using CrossComm. I'm still maried, and she still has capacity to use a phone, so I had to find a solution to reduce the recurent costs, or buy a phone company, or suppress phones at home. I tryed Skype (my engagement for free software would lead me to use GnomeMeeting, but the price of calls to fixed phone with it is twice the price of Skype). I invested in headsets. I even tryed to find a dual-way wireless headset. Not yet available at acceptable price. The result is: 50% of the time, the communication is acceptable, using SkypeOut (so to legacy phones). My bill got reduced to 70 EUR, because my wife switches to the phone when Skype is not delivering the espected service. So you can conclude that Skype is a good service, knowing that it is still (and will remain) no more than a BEST EFFORT service. For 2EURc/min, it's 5 times cheaper than CrossComm, so you have value for your money. I informed my wife about the period in a day where the Internet is less loaded, and she follows now my advice, and I think it increases the efficiency rate of Skype service. I have no info about Skype security. Believe me, the stategic value of informations exchanged between my wife and her mother is close to 0. I don't really care about this, but when they talk about me. If you have concerns about Skype at security level, check the web about experiences. I didn't heard about any issue there until now. You can also consider running Skype in a sub-system (User Space Kernel) or under a very limited account (nobody). But I think they don't want to play this game. I think there is much more risk at using eMule or Internet Exploder. Yours, -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net If you have problem with my digital signature, please install the appropriate au thority certificate by browsing https://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt.

have you checked the recently released skype ? i had problems with arts too, so i made a script which calls "artsshell terminate" and then skype. that way skype uses OSS and everything's fine. currently i'm using kde3.4-b2, and have arts completly disabled, so no more problems for me. -- regards, Georges Toth

thanks for all your help. I did find a aper about skype (with some security aspects) : http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR-repository/reports/reports-2004/cuc… does nice except for some eavesdropping vulnerabilities which is not so nice ;) -- Pascal Steichen pascal.steichen(a)lilux.lu Lilux ASBL http://www.lilux.lu