On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:35:14AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > Yeah, I've got AT&T with the '2-feature pack'. Haven't gotten the first > bill yet, but I remember it being at least cheap enough to drop qwest > for. :) (the two features are call waiting and caller id, afair. and > call waiting caller id is included too i think.) I've got AT&T's local phone service, the ~6 hour battery backup in the unit is nifty, as well as the ability to take it to the neighbors house. It's also got _very_ good modem connection quality, considering you've got a whopping $length_of_phone_cord_in_your_home foot of analog. The only real downside is that /all/ of my calls claim to be originating in shoreview, and none of the dial-this-number-and-automatically-get- the-closest-location numbers work, such as Pizza Hut. > Only thing AT&T > doesn't do is Privacy+. :| That's what vgetty is for =) I wrote a perl script that talks to a SQL database, when a call comes it looks up the # in the SQL database, each record in the database has an 'owner' (wife, husband, kids, roommate..) and a priority, the client runs on any OS that perl runs on, and listens for a UDP packet containing the #, a customized 'name' from the database (very useful for those evil cell phone companies that come up as 'MINNEAPOLIS') and the owner+priority. The client can be set to an owner and priority, you can choose to ignore calls not specificly for you, as well as setting a priority level (ie, kids cell phone is level 90, work is 50, you set the level to 89 at night so that work can't wake you up =). I haven't worked on it in a while due to the box I had running it going offline (bringing it back soon). Although I do plan on adding vgetty to the mix, along with daily schedules for when to change priority levels. As a side benefit, it logs all (incoming/outgoing) calls, including the duration of the call, although I haven't managed to (easily) listen to the outgoing DTMF with the particular modem I have. > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203