Re: Suggestions to solve this problem..

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:51:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:16:43 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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Drivel: Wanna drive someone insane? Just buy them a VoIP FXO/FXS
adapter or IP Phone. Only about 500 assorted configuration options,
no templates, and no way to save or load settings. I'm down to trial
and error (mostly error). Maybe that's why my blood pressure is too
high?

I don't do VOIP... just Skype and it works great! Although the
sound-card-use set-up was quite obscure.
...Jim Thompson

I've also been using Skype. Works great. You might want to look into
various "Skype phones" that are appearing. The idea is to be able to
call or receive a Skype call, without having to leave your computer
turned on all day and night.

I need a rant();

Having worked for Ma Bell in the distant past, I recognize the
problem. Telco people do things differently from computer people, and
never the two shall meet. The same features have different names in
telco lingo and computer lingo. For example, it's not a computer,
it's a switch. It's not a telephone instrument, it's an FXO or FXS.
One does not do programming, one does provisioning. Ad nausium. If I
were conspiratorial, I would suspect that telco has institutionalized
being different. All this from a Justice Dept ruling that Ma Bell has
to stay out of the computer business. I guess this is Ma Bell's way
of getting her revenge. Pages and pages and pages of incomprehensible
menus and settings. Argh!

Well, I'm finally able to authenticate with my provider after I
determined that "account name" is not my login name, but is the DID
phone number. Too bad I can't dial out because I haven't written a
suitable dial plan string and the examples in the docs don't quite
work.

Of course, nothing ever happens without slamming in bugs. This time
it's Firefox 3.0, which will NOT display some of the menus in the Zoom
5801. IE6 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 work fine, but not Firefox 3.0. This
is just after discovering that the Google Toolbar causes IE6 to hang
for 60 seconds before displaying the home page, but only with W2K.

Checking the BP meter:
163/96 with Omron HEM-775
135/85 done manually
When the cardiologist does it, it's usually 120/75.
Go figure.

End rant()

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