skypemate

[Thufir]

>From windows I'm using an odd program called USBPhoneForSkype which
uses Skype to dial out from a generic USB phone.  It's branded,
apparently, "USB phone" on the packaging even!  Reminds me of those
beer cans labeled "beer".

I'm probably going to buy the phone at
<http://pclee.idv.tw/peter/product_info.php?cPath=1_41&products_id=103&osCsid=f45628e3d6c648dd5364418e8abaf960>
purely because it does the exact same thing from linux.  Ironically,
the phone I'm going to buy can also work with x-lite for SIP calls,
but there's no linux driver to make x-lite work with the phone.  Of
course, x-lite runs on linux.

Weirdness.