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Desktop As a Cellphone Extension?
spaceman375 writes "Like many slashdotters, I've given up on landlines and have only a cell account. The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) to answer a call. Landlines solved this with extensions. I could go buy an xlink or other Bluetooth-to-POTS solution, but that takes money for equipment. My desktop has Bluetooth, as do my laptop and cell. All I want is a program that can use my cell's Bluetooth to make and receive calls from my Linux PC. I can do this with asterisk or related programs, but that is like buying UPS when I just need a taxi ride. Yet all I can find are programs that either use 'presence' to shift other-sourced calls to my cell, or ways to use a Bluetooth headset when receiving a call on a PC. Has anyone found a way to use their desktop to make and receive calls through their cell via Bluetooth?"
Bollocks. You can easily make calls using the phone from the computer. If a headset can do it, what makes you think a computer can't ? I can make calls with one touch from my earpiece. Or do you mean YOUR cellphone doesn't ? Get a decent phone or provider than.
I also carry my wallet and cellular phone, a programmable calculator, as well as a passport and handgun (with extra clips) at all times in the house. I use a standard ziplock plastic bag and a lanyard around my neck when I'm in the shower. Sometimes, my wife gets angry because it pokes her in the eyes when we're having marital relations, and it did cause a bit of a problem for my late first wife (may she rest in peace) when I once left the safety off. You have to be prepared should local law enforcement demand to see your papers, or if the need should arise to make a cellular call, solve a differential equation, prove my status as a natural-born US citizen, stop a charging Kodiak bear or retrieve a phone number from one of the many slips of paper in my wallet.
You never know, and it's best to always be prepared.
If you think you are going to stop a charging Kodiak with your pathetic handgun, that pretty much explains your other idiotic behaviors.
The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) to answer a call.
No wonder we are nation of fucking fatsoes and pencilnecks. I don't carry my cell phone with me at home, but that doesn't stop me from running, what, 20-30 feet, to get it when it rings.
Seriously, this was a lame excuse to throw some money @ technology for the hell of it while moving one step closer to be one of those Wall-e space fatties on floating platforms. Amazing that you even call that "a problem" .