At 06:13 PM 11/15/2000 -0500, Mjo wrote:
i also had this feature once........i think that i told it to not wait for
a dial tone and just dial...........
yes....older ppl on the net.....about 65% of all my calls here at
usaexpress.net are older ppl on the Internet.....some of them think up the
oddest stuff.....but its nice to see the older generations getting involved
with computers. I had a customer who owns a nursing home and currently
we're working on getting him several PC's and a ISDN connection so that his
residents can surf and mail and such......its nice to see that...
~kurth
>Okay, so thanks to the list I am now using ppp as if nothing ever happened.
>I am also now ip masquerading for both Ryan and my parents (yes, I'm VERY
>temporarily living with them till I grad)...
>
> I got voice mail 2 years ago because everyone complained that they
> always got a
>busy signal when I was on the net (i.e. 16/7), so they could at least leave a
>message. This was fine. In Windows, the dialer never worked when I had
>messages- when the dialtone "blinked." This was great because not being able
>to get on the net was the only thing that made me think to check my messages.
>
>A few months after I had been using SuSE along with Windows, I did something
>funky that made it so that in one of the OSs, it ignored the blinking
>dialtone.
> I *think* it might have been an option in SuSE? It may have been in
> Windows,
>I dunno. But I could dial even when I had messages.
>
>Anyway, now that my parents need to be on the net through my machine, they
>need
>to be able to dial it when I'm not here. So I'd like the dialer to ignore the
>blinking dialtone when I have messages. I want them to be able to have
>access,
>but don't want them checking my phone messages all the time. My isp dumps me
>too often to rely on just dialing up before I leave.
>
>Anyone know how to get the dialer to do this? I know it's possible.
>
>On the lighter side... My parents are 67 and 65 and totally computer
>clueless.
> I've spent much of the last 4 days teaching them about Netscape, aim, email,
>and basic Windows :/. When I told my mother her net connection would go
>through
>my modem, she said "Is that LEGAL?!?!?" ROFL!
>
>My dad's first site was Home Depot to look up vinyl shutters. My mother went
>to Ty.com to find beanie babies and then to the Crocodile Hunter site from
>Animal Planet.
>
>Scary. Very scary.
>
>-Mjo
>
>
>
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