Posts by Tony The B

Man coughs to sex with donkey and horse

Loose in the paddock?

"The defendant does not have a stable address ......"

Firefox exploit sends Mozilla into 'high-priority fire drill' mode

Umm

The answer is in the article - it's NoScript. You wouldn't connect without a firewall, so why use FireFox without NoScript? It's probably an essential add-on!

ADSL - the VoIP killer

answer to Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 15th December 2008 11:42 GMT

We run XP, a mix of Home and Pro. The difference seems to be the hardware aside from that. When an old PC was changed for a new one using the same cables, sotware and handset the reduction in usefulness was immediately apparent. We use VoipStunt by the way. It is not perfect by any means, there is variable quality even on my PC, but 90 odd % of the time it is absolutely fine.

VOIP or PC?

We used Voip over a half Meg line shared between 5 PCs. My 2 year old Acer works fine, yet 2 newer ones have abysmal quality calls. We are using the same version of VOIP software, and before upgrading PCs one of the other older machines worked fine too.

The phrase 'logical conclusion' and I.T. sometimes have nothing in common. If experimentation with other, maybe older PCs, yields better results then it may be worth the effort. FREE calls, who can better that? We pay for calls to mobiles but at no greater cost than other providers charge.