On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 01:51 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 23, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 01:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
A faculty member (my last OS 9 holdout!) finally upgraded his beige
G3-266 to a spanking new G5 tower.
On a couple occasions he (or someone walking past his office) has
heard an odd noise coming from it, described as "the sound a phone
makes when it's off the hook too long".
The one time it happened when he was there it was not accompanied by
any alert or other notification in the Finder, though it's possible
he missed it (he's in the throes of switching from OS 9 to OS X)
He's not running iCal or any other scheduling program that would
have an alarm.
Did the user (not you Bruce!!) plug the ethernet port into the modem
jack on their desk phone?
Nope. It does have an internal modem, but it's not connected to
anything. It WAS set as the first internet device to try, but if it
was trying to connect and couldn't, there should have been an Internet
Connect alert on the desktop I would think. I'm pretty certain the
fast beep you get from an off-hook phone is done by the phone company,
so unless the modem is emulating that it shouldn't make that noise.
Yeah, the fast beep is from Ma Bell. ( as the CIO ( I've got to give
myself some title) of Gerstel Office Furniture, I deal with both
computing and telecom).
I was thinking about a wire run from the ethernet port on the Mac to a
modem port on the desk phone making the phone go "off hook" and the
sound actually coming from the phone when the user "knows" that the
phone is properly hung up.
This is assuming that the phone is near the computer.
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