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Skype

January 21st, 2006 | Category: normal

I picked up a Logitech USB Headset 350 today from Best Buy with some Christmas money and now I have a very sweet teleconferencing/gaming voice solution. And to go along with this I installed Skype, what is probably the premiere Voice over IP telephone program (it’s also free to use). I’m looking for people to chat with, so if you’re Skype-enabled (or have a microphone and want to download it), try giving me a ring. My Skype name is “Pugtor“.

The headset also has volume control buttons in-line with it which I’ve been trying to make function here in Linux. There’s an existing project to do this for an older headset model by Philipp Kolmann, but it doesn’t work on the 350. I’ve spent a little time trying to get it to work, but things aren’t going so hot on that regard.

5 Comments so far

  1. Crunch January 21st, 2006 6:58 pm

    I’m in on this too. I’m Crunch_Munch

  2. Tae January 22nd, 2006 3:35 pm

    I want in on this too. So all I need is a headset/mircophone? What kind? And speaking of stuff, what kind of video card do I need again? :)

  3. Pug January 22nd, 2006 5:45 pm

    You’d just need a headset and microphone, yeah. Pretty much anything will do. I got a fairly high-end one (since it’s USB), but that was for a good reason. You don’t need a USB one… any standardish headset/microphone combination would work. Then you plug them into the front sockets on your computer, the green and red ports and it’ll work.

    For the video card - what games did you want to play? That’ll give me an idea of what to have you order.

  4. Tae January 22nd, 2006 6:39 pm

    Just KOTOR for the time being. Maybe something else eventually. But yeah, I wanna play KOTOR! (You are such a bad influence on me ;) )

  5. Carmen January 22nd, 2006 7:07 pm

    I’m CarmenRanger, and will be on once I figure out what to do about having “No proxies found”. =P

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