Jon Tydda
Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk
Tue Nov 9 05:32:46 CST 2004
LOL, brilliant Mark :-) Actually Drew, you won't even have to marry her if you ask properly! Jon -----Original Message----- From: Mark Breen [mailto:mark.breen at gmail.com] Sent: 09 November 2004 11:30 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not. Hello Drew, I have an alternate suggestion. Giving how highly you speak of this person, why not marry her, let her move in with you and then she can use your PC to email you. The money you could both spend on comms could be spent on dinners out. Mark in Ireland On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:23:21 -0600, Drew Wutka <dbatech at wolfwares.com> wrote: > That's what I thought. She lives across the street. At least 300 yards. > > Drew > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:23 AM > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not. > > I was going to suggest that, but I wasn't sure of the range. 300 yards is > quite a distance, even for a directional antenna. > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] > Sent: 09 November 2004 00:51 > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not. > > Forget telephony. Get her a wireless NIC that will take an external > antenna. Build / buy a coffee can directional antenna. Connect it to her > wireless NIC, and thus her to your wireless router. She now has screaming > internet access. > > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1641185,00.asp > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 > http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html > > Or just google pringle antenna > > Other useful places. > > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1273593,00.asp > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,37024,00.asp > > This stuff actually works > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:18 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not. > > Okay, I have a problem, that I am relatively clueless on where to start. > I'll try to make this short and sweet. My best friend in the world lives > about 1000 feet from me. She has had a cell phone, and cell phone only for > a while. Her budget is very tight. She has a computer (actually a little > better then my home desktop), but no way to get on the internet. She > doesn't have cable, and until recently, no land phone. > > Her mother is getting her a land phone. Now she would like internet > connectivity. So would I, cause I would like to be able to just email her > sometimes! Problem, even really cheap dialup is $9.99 a month, and that's > money she can barely spend. > > I, on the other hand, have a SCREAMING DSL connection (3 mgb down, and 384kb > up). I also have Windows 2000 server, which has Routing and Remote Access, > so I can actually connect her to my network, and thus out to the internet, > through RAS. That, I can do. Problem, one, I have no modem. (I'm working > on that!) Two, I only have one phone line, and there is no reason for me to > have 2. The second line would be just for her, and would also be more > expensive then her just getting dialup. If I connect my home phone to my > server, however, it will answer on every call. Sort of annoying, because > then I lose my answering machine, and I wouldn't get messages. What I need > to do, is to have the modem pickup, only if the caller id (which I have) > matches HER home number. (If she wants to call me, she can call me with her > cell). > > Any ideas? I know I'll need to use Telephony, but that is the limit of what > I know on this subject. > > Drew > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally > privileged. 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