Skype Installation

[W. Watson]

A friend has skype on his Apple, and he wants to see if I can join him with
XP. I installed it, and cannot even to the test call to the UK. When he
found me with a search it showed not connected. When I pull down the menu
with such choices, the connected was greyed out. To me that suggests I am
connected. Am I being stopped by the XP firewall, or maybe something in
SBC's DSL gateway?

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

'I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that
prepares a chamber for the winged thing it has never seen but
is to be, may have... destinies that he does not understand."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

[W. Watson]

A friend has skype on his Apple, and he wants to see if I can join him
with XP. I installed it, and cannot even to the test call to the UK.
When he found me with a search it showed not connected. When I pull down
the menu with such choices, the connected was greyed out. To me that
suggests I am connected. Am I being stopped by the XP firewall, or maybe
something in SBC's DSL gateway?

Rebooting the system got this underway. I can communicate with an Apple
user; however neither of seem to be able to hear one another.



Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"Humans aren't the first species to alter the atmosphere; that
distinction belongs to early bacteria, which some two million
years ago, invented photosynthesis.
-- Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Kolbert