Got my BlueTooth working and now can save gazillions in RingTone charges!! I make my own from stuff I like, and bluetooth push puts them on my phone.. no per second AND per kilobyte charges.. It was actually cheaper to spend $4 ( USD) per month on one of their silly plans than to use their , ahem, web browser... now I can save that for some sweet toy for my computer or maybe for that red dress that keeps calling me... Anyway, I backed up everything I thought I might have the remotest interest in w/ the bluetoothd (?) and then used the bluetooth push program to put pics and mp3 sounds on the phone, can you say Purple Haze ? anyone??? ;-) So for all who worked on that bit especially, today you are my heros, one and all..Thank You most heartily. Wish I could get you a rise, but that kind of power I don't have.. Extra Good Karma points, tho a real bonus for the next time you are so busy on the box you forget the wife, hubby, kiddies , gf, bf, general significant other on a day you really should have remembered... well, it should come in handy anyhow, no? -- j
Who was your provider? Cingular? Just wondering :). Matt On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:30 -0400, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Got my BlueTooth working and now can save gazillions in RingTone charges!! I make my own from stuff I like, and bluetooth push puts them on my phone.. no per second AND per kilobyte charges..
It was actually cheaper to spend $4 ( USD) per month on one of their silly plans than to use their , ahem, web browser... now I can save that for some sweet toy for my computer or maybe for that red dress that keeps calling me...
Anyway, I backed up everything I thought I might have the remotest interest in w/ the bluetoothd (?) and then used the bluetooth push program to put pics and mp3 sounds on the phone, can you say Purple Haze ? anyone??? ;-)
So for all who worked on that bit especially, today you are my heros, one and all..Thank You most heartily. Wish I could get you a rise, but that kind of power I don't have.. Extra Good Karma points, tho a real bonus for the next time you are so busy on the box you forget the wife, hubby, kiddies , gf, bf, general significant other on a day you really should have remembered... well, it should come in handy anyhow, no?
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j
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 16:42, Matthew wrote:
Who was your provider? Cingular?
Just wondering :).
Matt <snip> Yup . Amazing stuff the wide world of wireless. Has it's drawbacks in other ways too. Do you really WANT to be "available" ALL the time? Not me, but it appears that is what we are all going to be in the not so distant future. Prolly some sort of implant at birth, in which case there really will be a "permanent" record, as all teachers and authority figures bleated on about while I was growing up... --
j
On 7/5/05, jfweber@bellsouth.net <jfweber@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Got my BlueTooth working and now can save gazillions in RingTone charges!! I make my own from stuff I like, and bluetooth push puts them on my phone.. no per second AND per kilobyte charges..
Yep. Having bluetooth working rocks. And an mp3 editor later ...my phone now tells me I have a call in a lovely voice. :) Glad you got it working. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."
At 04:30 PM 7/5/2005 -0400, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
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Got my BlueTooth working and now can save gazillions in RingTone charges!! I make my own from stuff I like, and bluetooth push puts them on my phone.. no per second AND per kilobyte charges..
It was actually cheaper to spend $4 ( USD) per month on one of their silly plans than to use their , ahem, web browser... now I can save that for some sweet toy for my computer or maybe for that red dress that keeps calling me...
Anyway, I backed up everything I thought I might have the remotest interest in w/ the bluetoothd (?) and then used the bluetooth push program to put pics and mp3 sounds on the phone, can you say Purple Haze ? anyone??? ;-)
So for all who worked on that bit especially, today you are my heros, one and all..Thank You most heartily. Wish I could get you a rise, but that kind of power I don't have.. Extra Good Karma points, tho a real bonus for the next time you are so busy on the box you forget the wife, hubby, kiddies , gf, bf, general significant other on a day you really should have remembered... well, it should come in handy anyhow, no?
I'm not sure whether this thread ulimately results in some kind of VOIP, since I have not been following the thread very astutely. A radio "Tech Brief" from WINS in New York today mentions the fact that many VOIP solutions do not permit 911 calls to be located to the premises where they originate. This could be a serious problem for someone who could not, for some reason, speak. --Gagged, overcome by smoke, stroke victim, whatever. The radio suggests that anyone considering a VOIP solution for telephone service verify with the supplier whether a location function is available and exists on the server. (The VOIP services advertised in this NY area do not require a computer. You just plug your local lines into some sort of audio router and the router into the Internet, and Bob's your uncle.) --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:13 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I'm not sure whether this thread ulimately results in some kind of VOIP, since I have not been following the thread very astutely. A radio "Tech Brief" from WINS in New York today mentions the fact that many VOIP solutions do not permit 911 calls to be located to the premises where they originate. This could be a serious problem for someone who could not, for some reason, speak. --Gagged, overcome by smoke, stroke victim, whatever. The radio suggests that anyone considering a VOIP solution for telephone service verify with the supplier whether a location function is available and exists on the server.
(The VOIP services advertised in this NY area do not require a computer. You just plug your local lines into some sort of audio router and the router into the Internet, and Bob's your uncle.)
VoIP does not have a concept of the "local loop" as in PSTN. The "local loop" translates to a physical address that emergency services can respond to. However, my VoIP provider does have 911 feature. I have a VoIP box - a regular phone plugs into it and it does the Voice <-> IP packets conversion. The VoIP provider must be maintaining a mapping of phone no. to my physical address and that is presented to 911 if I make a call from my VoIP box. The other issue with VoIP is that all your "network" equipment must be powered by UPS, whereas in a regular land line -48V comes from the Tel. Exchg. -- Arun Khan <knura@yahoo.com>
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:54:55 +0530 Arun Khan <knura@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:13 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I'm not sure whether this thread ulimately results in some kind of VOIP, since I have not been following the thread very astutely. A radio "Tech Brief" from WINS in New York today mentions the fact that many VOIP solutions do not permit 911 calls to be located to the premises where they originate. This could be a serious problem for someone who could not, for some reason, speak. Gagged, overcome by smoke, stroke victim, whatever. The radio suggests that anyone considering a VOIP solution for telephone service verify with the supplier
Hey Group; As a HAM radio operator we also have the same problem using our phone patches which are remote repeaters in the USA. That is because the remote 911 dialer calls from a site which is not related to a true street address of the calling station. I would suspect this same problem would happen to a IP phone unless the dailer has a set of databases with the previously know address and you are at a fixed location. 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb@hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb@arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMWMOA #: 4146 LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:54:55 +0530 <snip>
Hey Group; As a HAM radio operator we also have the same problem using our phone patches which are remote repeaters in the USA. That is because the remote 911 dialer calls from a site which is not related to a true street address of the calling station.
I would suspect this same problem would happen to a IP phone unless the dailer has a set of databases with the previously know address and you are at a fixed location. <Snip> Yeah, it's also the problem w/ most older cell ( mobiles to Europeans )
On July Wednesday 06 2005 10:56 am, Donn L Washburn wrote: phones It is in some way a part of the rationale for the chips in your cell phone that let them know where you are as soon as you answer, or make connection ... I'm kinda conflicted about that.. but, then I wouldn't buy "OnStar" either if I had to have a GM auto.. You are actually tracked by people keeping records who can be compelled to turn them over to ... lawyers, police ( maybe not always a bad thing ) , govt officials, etc. Guess if we continue this thread we should move it over to the OT list before the rest of the group begins bitching about us again... <VBG> -- j
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