On 11/6/06, John Meier wrote: > I have a brother-in-law that is serving the the military forces over seas. > I have a sister-in-law and a niece that are here in the states. They have > not seen each other in a long time. I'd like to set them up with a web cam > interface where they can talk/see each other. He has a laptop with him > (windows based I assume) > and she has a home PC - also windows based. The y can call each other and > talk, but I'd like to set them up with a way to at least see each other. > I'd go with cheapo webcams and use skype (or pretty much any IM client). Not exactly open source or linux-related, but it should be fairly straightforward. Your biggest headache (if there is one) will probably be firewall/NAT issues on either end. sm