This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Im a new lamer, testing
Article: 7865 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: nugget@dorite.use.com (David McNett) Subject: Re: Im a new lamer, testing Message-ID: D93CCM.ED9@dorite.use.com Keywords: test ignore Organization: IQuest Network Services Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:26:45 GMT Approved: nugget@slacker.com (http://www.iquest.net/~nugget) Lines: 27 Status: RO
adric@thelair.zynet.com (Pete Menning) writes: >Obhack. fixing a broken simm socket by rubberbanding the simm to the one >next to it, and using a peice of eraser to space it.. I can really appreciate this one. I'll have to file it back for future reference... ObHack: Our telco provider at my office couldn't seem to get the function working where my office telephone would page me on my pager when I would receive a voicemail message. Their system wouldn't selay properly, so instead of being paged with my office number, I would get a two-second "hangup" call on my pager's voicemail. (Following me so far?) The solution? I plugged an old Prometheus Promodem 1200 into an unused serial port on my linux box and wrote a program to monitor for a run. I got distinctive ringing service from Bell and plugged a DRS box into the promethius, to attach it to ring #2 on my voice line. Now, when the office phone calls, it calls my secondary number, the program detects the ring and starts a task to ring my pager with an Alphanumeric page that says "You have voice mail at the office." Better service than they could provide because now I get a *real* alpha page... -David McNett nugget@slacker.com http://www.iquest.net/~nugget
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