[ale] And now for something completely different :-)

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Sat Apr 17 11:57:42 EDT 2010


On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 11:47 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I've gotten an agreement from Donald Knuth to do a phone interview
> with me in late May.
> 
> I'll be running it as the  crown jewel in a set of interviews on
> literate programming.
> 
> I want it to be nearly perfect, both in terms of the content of the
> interview, and in the seamlessness of the process from Dr. Knuth's
> (and my other subject's) point of view,  I'd like to be able to have a
> phone interview with him whereby he just has to either phone or be
> phoned at no expense and technical hassle  to him.  I'd like the
> complexity to be minimal, but any setup time or complexity needs to be
> swallowed at my end.
> 
> I have an Ekiga account set up, but I don't really know how to use it.
>  If any of you folks can help me get this set up by late May, I'll
> credit you appropriately. 

I have never gotten Ekiga to work, but if you do, I'd consider using
diamondcard.us for your phone call to Knuth.  I've been using it as part
of my home phone system for a few years now, and have been very happy
with it.

	--- Mike

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