Finally had a chance to try it out with kleinejan. The interface is quite usable, but might need some more tweaking to make things really obvious. If you’re behind a firewall things will not work out of the box. Unlike Skype, Qnext does not automatically look for proxy servers to use. This means that you need to either punch some holes in your firewall, or find someone without a firewall to proxy for you. You need to forward TCP 5235, TCP 5236 and UDP 5237 to your NATed box to be visible. It would be nice if Qnext ran some proxy servers themselves. Once I made the ports forwards kleinejan became visible even as he was behind NAT. A VOIP session was one way only. Looks like both parties need to do port forwarding for this to work. However, Qnext clearly documents all these facts. And unlike Skype, where sharing your connection is mandatory, you need to explicitly enable yourself as a proxy. Tomorrow we’re trying Qnext with a proxy on the co-lo.
Widescreen desktop wallpapers 1
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If you’re looking for free high quality widescreen desktop wallpapers Mandolux is an excellent site! Mando has a new shot every week. Check out the archives. Good stuff.
Qnext, Truly Connected
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Came across this link tonight. Qnext seems to be another all-in-one communications platform. There’s a Linux version, so that’s always promising. Downloading it as I type. The tarball is a whopping 35MB so it better have the kitchen sink included! Will report about this soon.
Update: Yep the kitchen sink is included, a full copy of JRE 1.5.0. I created an account but couldn’t test anything yet. I’m especially interested in the VOIP capabilities. Testing later on..
