Oggi voglio parlarvi di Scx Tools un set di utility per Skype che, grazie a Scx-recorder ci permette di registrare le nostre chiamate VoIP. Scx-recorder è molto comodo e semplice da usare, ma può dare alcuni problemi nella compilazione. Fortunatamente ho trovato questo messaggio sul micro-forum del progetto, che spiega come risolvere lo strano errore a qtextstream (error qtextstream.h must be included before any header...).

Installazione

Scaricare il programma da qui ed estrarre l'archivio

Le dipendenze sono:  Skype, le librerie Qt4 e Alsa sound system.

Se non avete Skype installato, dovrete prima abilitare i repository medibuntu, dando:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

aggiungendo queste linee in fondo al file:

# Medibuntu
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

a importando le chiavi:

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Ora possiamo soddisfare le dipendenze con un:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-core libqt4-dev libqt4-gui  libasound2-dev skype

A qusto punto non ci resta che mettere in pratica, quanto riportato nel forum del progetto, la compilazione infatti fallirebbe lo stesso. Diamo:

sudo gedit /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qtextstream.h

sostituiamo questa parte:

#ifdef Status
#error qtextstream.h must be included before any header file that defines Status
#endif

con questa:

#ifdef Status
/** #error qtextstream.h must be included before any header file that defines Status **/
#undef Status
#endif

salviamo ed usciamo.

Ora, spostandoci col terminale nella cartella scx-recorder del programma, diamo:

./compile

Se la compilazione riesce, e non vi da alcun errore, dovreste trovarvi un eseguibile chiamato scx-recorder; lanciatelo (cliccandoci sopra). Al primo avvio scx-recorder vi chiederà di indicargli alcuni settaggi iniziali come la cartella in cui salvare le chiamate e il formato audio. Questi valori possono essere modificati in seguito, andando nella sezione Edit->Setting del menù del programma. Ora non vi resta che avviare Skype, il quale vi avviserà subito della presenza di un altro programma che cerca di connettersi, e vi chiederà se acconsentite; rispondete di si.

Così, non appena inizierete a telefonare, potrete avviare la registrazione cliccando semplicemente sul classico tasto rosso della registrazione e sullo stop quando avrete finito. L'interfaccia grafica di SCX Recorder è minimale, quindi non avrete alcuna difficoltà nell'iniziare ad usarlo. Si può anche decidere di far cominciare la registrazione in automatico, a me, quest'opzione, ha però dato alcuni problemi (crash). Insomma, a parte le difficoltà affrontate durante la compilazione, e la scarsissima documentazione con cui viene distribuito, Scx è un programma molto comodo ed interessante, unica soluzione di questo tipo per sistemi Gnu/Linux.

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Hank Williams and Om Malik have discussed the potential for Flash 10 to be used for P2P CDNs, and they're largely right on. The biggest problem I see with P2P CDNs is oddly latency, however. While P2P theoretically enables you to choose copies of content closer to you on the network, you still have to negotiate with a server somewhere to establish the connection (for traversing NATs), nullifying the P2P advantage unless you're talking about really big files. As Hank identifies, the sites serving large files are the CDN's best customers, so we are talking about a significant chunk of the CDN business up for grabs. That said, CDNs could easily start running Flash Media Servers themselves with integrated RTMFP. They've already addressed the server locality problem, and taking advantage of Flash deployments would simply be an optimization. Whether the CDNs will realize this shift has taken place before it's too late is another question.

To me, the really vulnerable players are the video sites themselves and anyone in the client-side VoIP space. Writing a VoIP app is now equivalent to writing your own Flash video player. All the hard stuff is already done. Same with serving videos. You no longer have to worry about setting up an infinitely scalable server cluster -- you just offload everything to Flash. No more heavy lifting and no more huge bandwidth bills. In the BitTorrent case, it's mostly a matter of usability. As with Skype, you no longer need a separate install. Depending on what's built in to the Flash Media Server, you also no longer need to worry about complicated changes on the server side, and downloads will happen right in the browser.

The stunning engineering behind all of this should be adequately noted. The Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) underlies all of these changes. On closer inspection, RTMFP appears to be the latest iteration of Matthew Kaufman and Michael Thornburgh's Secure Media Flow Protocol (SMP) from Adobe's 2006 acquisition of Amicima. Adobe appears to have acquired Amicima specifically to integrate SMP into Flash, now in the improved form of RTMFP. This is a very fast media transfer protocol built on UDP with IPSec-like security and congestion control built in. The strength of the protocol was clear to me when Matthew first posted his "preannouncement" on the p2p hackers list. Very shrewd move on Adobe's part.

Are there any downsides? Well, RTMFP, is for now a closed if breathtakingly cool protocol, and it's tied to Flash Media Server. That means Adobe holds all the cards, and this isn't quite the open media platform to end all platforms. If they open up the protocol and open source implementations start emerging, however, the game's over.

Not that I have much sympathy, but this will also shift a huge amount of traffic to ISPs, as ISPs effectively take the place of CDNs without getting paid for it. While Flash could implement the emerging P4P standards to limit the bleeding at the ISPs and to further improve performance, this will otherwise eventually result in higher bandwidth bills for consumers over the long term. No matter -- I'd rather have us all pay a little more in exchange for dramatically increasing the numbers of people who can set up high bandwidth sites on the Internet. The free speech implications are too good to pass up.

Just to clear up some earlier confusion, Flash Beta 10 is not based on SIP or P2P-SIP in any way. Adobe's SIP work has so far only seen the light of day in Adobe Pacifica, but not in the Flash Player.

"This is a great way to show people how easy it is to use Skype wherever they happen to be," είπε η Malthe Sigurdsson, η creative director του Skype. "Our Nomad has to keep moving for a long time. The only downtime she will have is when she's on a flight or some form of transport that keeps her moving."

Η κοινότητα θα μπορεί να παρακολουθεί την εξέλιξη του ταξιδιού της Campbell μέσα από το blog της http://share.skype.com/sites/nomad/, στο Twitter, στο YouTube, στο Flickr, στο MySpace, στο Facebook. Μπορείτε και να επικοινωνήσετε με την Rebecca Campbell μέσω Skype για να τις παρέχετε tips για το ταξίδι της στις διάφορες χώρες (Skypename: 'theskypenomad').

To ταξίδι έχει και φιλανθρωπικούς σκοπούς. Διαβάστε περισσότερα στο Motivation quality of life: The Skype Nomad.

Οι δηλώσεις της Rebecca Campbell:

"I'm really excited about the trip but I'm sure it will be hard to keep moving". "The great thing is I have a whole online community to rely on who can guide me to make the right decisions on what I eat and how I keep moving in any of the 15 countries I'll be in. I am sure I'll need a holiday afterwards! Travelling can be a bit lonely but with Skype, I know I can stay in touch with my friends and family for free or very little and that's very reassuring."

Κάποιες φορές οι άνθρωποι του marketing έχουν ενδιαφέρουσες ιδέες. Αν και την καημένη την Rebecca τη βλέπω να περνάει τον περισσότερο χρόνο της στα social networks που την γράψανε για να δημοσιεύει νέα, photos και video ( αν βέβαια τα κάνει η ίδια...ε πιστεύω ότι θα υπάρχει μια ομάδα που θα στηρίζει το ταξίδι της ). Θα

... The Telepathy Project, presented by performance artists Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples in the front windows of the Forum Theatre over five days from May 20. Kent and Peoples, who will be sealed in isolated rooms, will attempt to communicate telepathically with each other and the passing Flinders Street audience, and write or draw what they "receive" on post-it notes stuck to the window. The two met at art school, and have been attempting to communicate telepathically ever since.

Well, I guess it could have been useful for examinations. Did they tell the invigilator, so they could have separate papers set?

Mind, I'm more favorable towards something like the Band In A Bubble Project by Regurgitator. Will they consider getting someone to properly tally up WHEN someone thinks something and it is actually produced? Otherwise, just writing lots and lots of random words pinned up, like 'penguin!', 'motor boat!', 'poo!' and 'Eliza Dushku in the Dollhouse Trailer on Youtube!' is bound to get a hit with someone at some point...

"Every night for the past three years we've put aside half an hour, in our separate houses, and tried to communicate telepathically with each other. Then we go online and compare," says Kent.

"A lot of the time we're drawing a long bow, but there have been a few occasions where it did uncannily work. At the end of one session I felt compelled to go and drink a litre of milk straight from the fridge, which I never do. It was kind of disgusting. I usually sit there with a glass of red wine. But when I went online he'd been sending me 'milk'."

Nice guy. All I get is my partner on Skype sending 'Nude! Nude, nude, nude, nude, nude!' Yes, it works - no, I'm not doing street-theater with it.

You can check their show out as a part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival and is on at the Forum Theatre from May 20 to 24, 4.30-8.30pm.

...And if a certain skeptic in Victoria with the initials 'SR' goes to the show and thinks 'NUDE!' at them and it works, I do NOT want photos emailed to me, got it? Ick.

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wanna talk on fone?
can u talk on fone?
do u have a fone?
is it plugged in?

can u dial?
can u connect?
can u try again?
how about now?

is there a dial tone?
is the echo gone?
is the echo gone?
where ya from?

long with fone?
just get fone?
stuff with fone?
is skype u only one?

The biggest question is whether I made the mistake of buying such a phone, if it can be called a phone. I remember insisting my parents to buy a phone which does not require the computer and can just plug up to my router, but what do they know about such a difference, they just know that its a phone and it is compatible with Skype. So, there goes 200-300 bucks down the drain for a particularly useless device. Oh, how the world is so cruel.

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Esta versión también permite chatear, ver los usuarios que están en línea, recibir llamadas Skype y realizar llamadas Skype to Skype y llamadas de Skype Out.

Aunque sabemos que es una versión beta al parecer no esta permitiendo realizar llamadas, al menos eso de momento, tened también en cuenta que estas llamadas se tarificarán como una llamada de datos con lo que si no disponéis de una tarifa plana de conexiones no seria aconsejable utilizar este programa.

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La vérité, c'est qu'en ce moment il y a des offres pour recevoir une PS3 ou une Wii gratuitement en achetant un téléphone mobile avec un abonnement. Et après réfléxion :

1. déjà même si la PS3 est le moyen d'avoir un lecteur Blu-Ray de qualité à un prix abordable, je préfèrerais avoir une Wii (qui est offerte en plus avec la Wii fit)
2. j'ai comparé mon portable avec un plus récent [et là j'ai halluciné sur la qualité du l'écran du Sony Ericsson W880i par rapport à mon Nokia 6610... j'vous ai mis une photo des modèles !]. J'ai surtout réalisé qu'effectivement mon portable était peut-être un peu dépassé, et qu'il allait sûrement bientôt me lâcher, juste quand j'aurais besoin d'appeler quelqu'un en urgence. 

Alors j'ai regardé les modèles sur l'ordinateur qui était allumé et sur lequel Alistair regardait toutes les différentes promos. Et j'ai cliqué sur Nokia. [oui je suis fan de Nokia, presque depuis mon 1er téléphone... le 3310 en bleu ciel ;) Et même si Sony Ericsson c'est très bien, je reste sur mon idée d'acheter un Nokia.] Et là, j'aperçois ça :

le Nokia 3500 pink ! J'adore... Très girly ;) On prend alors la décision d'aller prochainement en magasin pour se renseigner.

Et en rentrant à la maison [oui, tout ça c'était chez mes beaux-parents, et tout en anglais bien sûr, mais j'vous ai traduit !] je suis allée sur Internet. (encore...) Et je suis tombée sur ça :

le Nokia 3500... dans 4 couleurs différentes... dont le bleu turquoise ! J'aimerais bien voir ce qu'il donne en vrai. Malheureusement, après quelques recherches plus poussées, il est apparemment indisponible ici au Royaume-Uni. 

Va vraiment falloir qu'on aille se renseigner en magasin... Sinon, vous préfèrez en pink ou en blue ?

Et puis vous, c'est quoi votre modèle de portable ?
Et si vous en achèteriez un nouveau demain, ce serait quoi ?

What this actually seems to be, though, is the re-hashing of a 'sponsored' article in Commsbusiness (no permalink available), which seems to be not much more than scaremongering by Newport Networks, who coincidentally sell a range of secure Session Border Controller devices for VoIP.

Now, the BBC article does quote Skype and a researcher from Jupiter playing down the issue - I guess there's no smoke without fire, but is this a solution looking for a problem?

Update: Newport Networks have posted some more background to this article in their blog.  Thanks to Dave Gladwin of Newport for pointing me to this.

Ontem, a Mari-Jô - do Nomadismo Celular - indicou em seu blog um ótimo artigo "Nomads at Last", publicado no The Economist (leia aqui), e que fala de N aspectos da mobilidade, do "nomadismo moderno" e que a comunicação Wireless/sem fio está mudando a maneira como as pessoas trabalham, vivem, amam e se relacionam aos lugares.

E hoje a bola da vez é do Skype, com o projeto "The Skype Nomad". Uma moçoila australiana está viajando - non stop - por vários países munida de uma parafernalha high tech, com o objetivo de se comunicar - sobretudo via Skype - em qualquer lugar, em qualquer situação (andando de trem, ônibus, avião, balão, trenó ou como preferir). Isso tudo pra mostrar que agora o Skype também é móvel.

A viagem da "mucinha" (vulgo Rebecca) deve durar pouco mais de um mês e poderemos acompanhar seus passos no blog do projeto e conversar com ela via Skype pelo nome: "theskypenomad". Fora Twitter (twitter.com/skype_nomad), Youtube, Facebook, Flikr etc etc. Ela realmente está 100% plugada. :)

So einfach Videogespräche über Skype auch zu führen sind – es kann manchmal ganz nützlich sein, ein paar Ratschläge dabei zu beachten, damit der erste Videocall nicht der letzte wird. Erstmals gibt Skype hier die 10 wichtigsten Regeln für Videogespräche bekannt:

• Egal, was andere sagen – das Aussehen entscheidet doch! Vor jedem Videocall sollte man kontrollieren, ob die Frisur sitzt und die Kleidung in Ordnung ist.
• Überprüfen Sie Ihre Wirkung aus der Nähe. Spinatreste zwischen den Zähnen oder verwischtes Make-up sollten unbedingt vermieden werden.
• Denken Sie an Ihre Körpersprache. Ihr Gesprächspartner kann Sie sehen – also kein genervtes Augenrollen bei Diskussionen oder ein gelangweilter Gesichtsausdruck bei längeren Gesprächen.
• Keine Kaugummis oder Kekse zwischendurch. Es gibt wirklich schönere Dinge, als essende Menschen in Nahaufnahme zu betrachten.
• Vergessen Sie nicht das Headset, sonst kann man Sie nicht hören. Es gibt aber auch Webcams mit integrierten Mikrophonen.
• Schauen Sie sich noch mal kurz über die Schulter. Unpassende Gegenstände im Hintergrund wie Wäschekörbe, ungemachte Betten oder Stapel von Unterlagen und Papieren können bei Videogesprächen das Konzentrationsvermögen des Gegenübers stark herausfordern oder für Gesprächsstoff unter den Kollegen sorgen.
• Vermeiden Sie Hintergrundgeräusche. Verkehrslärm, Kollegengespräche oder ein laufender Fernseher im Hintergrund sind sehr störend. Suchen Sie sich lieber ein ruhiges Plätzen bzw. sorgen Sie für Ruhe, ehe Sie ein Videogespräch führen.
• Rücken Sie sich ins rechte Licht! Auch wenn neueste Webcams sich an die Raumhelligkeit anpassen können, ist es nach wie vor ratsam, für ausreichend Beleuchtung zu sorgen.
• Nehmen Sie ihre Wirkung ernst. Schon nach dem ersten Videogespräch werden Sie merken, dass man sich dem Gesprächspartner sehr viel näher fühlt als bei Telefonaten. Berücksichtigen Sie das bei geschäftlichen Videogesprächen.
• Schauen Sie auch mal in die Kamera. Natürlicherweise betrachtet man bei Videocalls den Gesprächspartner und blickt dabei in den Monitor. Damit das Gegenüber aber auch mal mehr sieht als Ihren Scheitel, sollten Sie ab und zu auch mal in die Kamera schauen.

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A word to the wise though, if you want to be a part of this, its best to get in on it early.  Toksee is destined to be the next billion dollar website (yep, just like Myspace ) and has a much larger following in such a short amount of time. 

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Nagu ikka, toimub vestlus Skype vahendusel paralleelselt konverentsikõne ja tsäti läbi. Söömaklubi on uustulnukatele avatud, mitte mingil juhul suletud seltskond. Palun julgelt ühinemissoovidest teada anda!

Ja näe, seda kirjutades juba üks ettepanek teema kohta laekuski. Tubli, Karuemakene! Mahub kõrvale teisigi et oleks mida otsustada. Või jääme selle juurde?

Let's take a look at lessons learned from Skype. eBay purchased Skype a few years ago for an admitted outrageous sum of money, betting on the fact that voice is, in fact, the killer app. Skype was so inviting because the peer-to-peer technology behind it (implemented by the same guy who invented Kazaa), essentially made peer-to-peer voice, free. Exploiting the un-used bandwidth of the participating members, Skype is essentially the give-a-penny-take-a-penny of telecom. You can deliver voice chatting at little or no cost to the network operator.

Somewhere along the way of developing Skype, text chat sprung up alongside the voice chat. Undoubtedly it was seen as "essentially free" and probably helped the early testers tap out messages of "halp!" when their voice connection went down. So why not implement chat indeed?

If you were to re-create Skype from the ground up (and many are trying), you'd make the same choice again to include text chat. What developer in their right mind could leave out text chat? Regardless of how well the voice connection worked, reviewers would most definitely grumble if they couldn't send back and forth their smilies or short notes.

What this really points to is the fact that voice is not the killer app.*

If you look at my desk, and the amount of time I interact with all the items on it, my PC wins without contest. A far distant second to my PC is the ancient sound wave reproduction device sitting to the left, my telephone. My most-used applications are my email client, my web browser, and then a host of office productivity applications. I only use the phone begrudgingly to attend meetings and receive calls from the lobby about guests that have arrived. If my phone died, I wouldn't rush facilities to replace it.

You could point out that my job is more oriented towards computer work, if I were a salesman my priorities would be a little different. The telephone would likely be my primary tool because my job would be to communicate and persuade via a synchronous, nuanced, high-context communication channel.

Another objection might point to a multitude of other professions where computer use is negligible or non-existent. Bricklayers, glass-cutters, day-care operators, waitresses, bus drivers and dry cleaners probably could survive quite happily with no computer at all. I on the other hand never need to use a shovel, flashlight, cash register or hockey stick in in the normal course of my work.

And in these exceptions, we see the pattern emerging:

* depending on the needs of the situation, each application has a collection of "best" tools.

As we teeter on the edge of complete cellular saturation, and gaze in astonishment when mobile searches skyrocket for iPhone users, now is the time to ask ourselves,

"is voice really what I want from my phone? don't I really just want everything in my pocket?"

Just because voice was the initial application of cellular technology does not mean we necessarily should perpetuate the practice of transmitting the sonic vibrations of air passing between two vibrating pieces of meat. Voice is an archaic technology sprung from the biological constraints of our evolution.

I mentioned in a presentation that the current mobile experience "was crap", and someone challenged me, asking if I thought the iPhone was crap. They asserted it was not crap, because it had displaced 15 to 20 minutes of browsing in the morning they would have normally needed to boot their computer for.

Initially I wanted to persist with my statement that mobile was indeed crap, but the decision was no longer mine to make. He had already decided that for those 15 to twenty minutes, his iPhone was the best tool for the job.

From a product and strategy management perspective, this reinforces the notion that we must always ask why and drive further to the roots. If you're in the cellular business and you focus narrowly on voice, you'll get smacked in the head when your competitor blows you away because they have been thinking about communication in all its many forms.

BTW, if you want to see this strategy playing out perfectly, check out the DASH GPS/Mobile search/Traffic Device. Global positioning of YOU is not the killer app, it's really more about whats NEAR you. They figured out if you Google stuff at home and at work, why wouldn't you Google it in your car?

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Con Skype podrás llamar gratis desde tu PC a otras personas que usan Skype y disfruta de llamadas económicas a teléfonos fijos y móviles de todo el mundo. Además, la calidad de sonido es excelente. Úsalo todo el día; es como si estuvieras en la misma sala que la persona que está al otro lado del teléfono.

Skype es lo más parecido a realizar una llamada que existe, hasta suenan los típicos sonidos telefónicos. Realizas la llamada (con un simple clic), puedes descolgar cuando te llaman, colgar, incluso comunica si ya se está hablando con otra persona.

Skype posee lista de amigos, logs de llamadas, un buscador rápido y completo con el que encontrarás fácilmente personas con las que hablar en el idioma que desees, diferentes estados (disponible, invisible, ocupado, etc.), ¡hasta tiene llamadas perdidas!

Skype es muy fácil de usar, bastará con hacer doble clic sobre la persona a la que quieras llamar y listo. También permite enviar mensajes de texto.

A nivel técnico reseñar que Skype, de los creadores de KaZaA, no presenta ningún tipo de problemas por tipo de conexión, router o firewalls, además, no incluye ningún tipo de publicidad ni spyware (comprobado con Ad-aware y Spybot Search & Destroy).

Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP (VoIP) phone accounts are selling online for more than stolen credit cards, Newport Networks has found.

The information allows someone to use the telephone service for free.

Net telephony fraud is still in its infancy, with eavesdropping on calls being the most common security flaw.

Capturing accounts

But the move into stealing usernames and passwords which are routinely sent across the network when a call is made, is a worrying new trend thinks Dave Gladwin, vice president of products at Newport Networks.

"It is still at an embryonic stage but as voice adoption increases it becomes more of a problem and needs addressing," said Mr Gladwin.

The details are not sent as plain text but are encoded in such a way as to be "easily captured and unobscured", said Mr Gladwin.

Credit card details have been traded fairly openly online for some time and can be bought for around $12 (£6) each. VoIP account details fetch a slightly higher price, at $17 (£9), according to Mr Gladwin.

The problem is less of a issue for businesses which routinely offer voice-over IP services for their employees because users are tied into a secure corporate network.

But for consumers, relying on public or unsecured home wi-fi networks, there is more of an issue.

"90% of carriers don't offer a secure VoIP service," said Mr Gladwin.

He estimated it would cost around £2/£3 per subscriber for service providers to instigate the additional level of security needed.

"Most of the software out there has the capability of running in secure mode if the service providers would accept it," he said.

VoIP provider Skype said its service, unlike some of its rivals, offered end to end encryption.

"It doesn't matter whether I'm on an open wireless connection, there is no way someone could get hold of my username or password," said Jonathan Christensen, general manager of audio and video at Skype.

He accepts there are security issues facing the industry, especially for providers that use "less robust security mechanisms" but he questions how big a draw a free VoIP account would be for net criminals.

This is a view shared by Jupiter analyst Ian Fogg.

"I have not seen security issues with VoIP as a big issue. This is partly because such services aren't that mainstream and therefore have not been targeted by criminals in the way that e-mail and online banking services have," he said.