*Sigh* I’m gone for two weeks and no one can update the main page?! Just kidding. I know school is back in session and for a lot of us that’s meant being slowly buried up to our ears with things to do again. I personally have also had the pleasure of being sick as a dog the past few days which has only added more to my to do list and left me with even less time to help with the project. That being said and I’m sure I speak for many here when I say that I am by no means giving up, but I will be readjusting how much time I put into Neo. As of today, I will only post to the front page once a week between Monday and Friday (unless circumstances allow for more). This will give me enough time to focus on my life and and produce a worthwhile article week after week. It will also give others a chance to post as I hope that we can eventually have a different person write for the front page for every day of the week (excluding weekends, unless we decide to work then). Thanks for your understanding.

Another thing I should probably touch on is the whole conferencing issue I brought up two weeks ago and have since left to you guys to debate. So far Skype has been named the most in the comments and there is documented proof that it can support up to five people in the same call at once. Furthermore, it is supported on nearly all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), fairly easy to install and use, and I’m pretty sure it can be run off of a flash drive for those of you having trouble installing it to your machines internal drive. As for Ventrilo, it sounds like an amazing platform, however, one needs to either host or rent a server; I personally cannot host a server on my school’s network and I really don’t want to have to pay for a server that not many people are going to use at first. Finally, several folks have mentioned using “messengers” for conferencing. The two problems with these is that different people use different messaging clients, not all of which play nice with each other, and I don’t know whether or not these clients support conference calls, aka VOIP calls between more than two people. As always, your feedback on the issue is welcome.

-Omni

Filed under: General, Skype, Toonami, VOIP