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October 16, 2005

Skype is mauling my bandwidth?

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I’m a newbie to Skype (profile: sarah.king) and while I’m not doing much with it right now I’m very impressed with the clarity and convenience. If I could have a wireless headset I’d be set.

BizDrivenLife had a link to ComputerWorld - Skype: hazardous to network health?

Your corporate desktops and notebooks are the peers that are consigned as Skype pleases to relay traffic and function as mini-servers in the Skype universe. A blog entry on the eBay acquisition envisioned Skype producing an auction conference system that could handle 500 callers at once. Let’s hope they don’t decide to route that through your network some day.

I thought that kind of shenanigans was limited to the music sharing industry. I certainly don’t have a problem with it, provided it’s explained upfront. After all I’m getting something for nothing and we all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch. There had to be a hook somewhere.

My SOHO PC (the one with Skype) also gets used by the kids when I’m onsite contracting so I frequently reboot before I leave so that they can login. I guess I’ll keep doing that and monitoring our bandwidth use.

Read about free Skype Out calls…

September 15, 2005

How eBay can help stop Phishing

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I just received a sternly worded email from “eBay” of which I am not a registered user. Out of curiousity I decided to view the source of the email and see which tricks this nasty Phisher had employed More »

December 28, 2004

Naughty Kids

Posted by Sarah King in Other Stuff

Naughty kids lose gifts to eBay.

Rockon folks. I can sit here and pass judgement on the parents for letting things get that far but:

1. I knew I was beaten at 2 kids and they have 3 boys.
2. Mine aren’t that old yet so really I’m just plain scared that mine might go the same way.

Infact my darling 7 year old girl today put one of those sticker tatoos in a circle around her belly button and then refused to go swimming at the beach because it might come off. She’s 7! Crikey, what will she be like as a teenager?