Daniel Lorch wrote: > > hi, > > I've got quite a bit a uncommon question. I would like to attach a cellphone to > my server @ TIX, interfacing it with gnokii [1] so I can do funky stuff such as > an SMS-to-E-Mail gateway and other stuff our world really needs. I could get a > nokia cellphone with damaged display, which would be perfect for such a project. > The cellphone would be connected with a special serial cable, not with infrared. > > Before I start ordering all the equipment I need, I was wondering what TIX's > policy would be on placing cellphones in their datacentre. I promise to mute > it before I leave it there :) I could just put it into the pizza-box, leaving > it unnoticed, but I thought it would be polite to ask first.
We don't have a policy that forbids using the mobile within the datecenter. It wouldn't be enforceable anyway. We have never seen any negative effect on any equipement from using a mobile in the datacenter. And basically everyone doing any work here is most of the time on the phone... ;) What we certainly don't like things like fix-to-mobile "gateways" (a large number of GSM phones terminating fix line calls directly into the mobile networks). Once we had someone putting more than 100 GSM phones into the racks. Wasn't funny because it was exceeding even the maximum electromagnetic emissions that are allowed for base stations... To answer your question; Yes, you can put your phone in there. But make the entire installation look nice and maybe even hide it to some extent in a (non-metallic) box. PS: If anyone is interested in a large or small number of GSM modems with nice RS232 ports please contact me. -- Andre ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
