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  1. Re:Maybe its your choice of music on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    LOL Do I really sound like someone soon for an AARP membership? I listen to alternative, classical, electronica,hip hop, jazz, swing, or ska. Just about everything. I think the only styles I don't like are R&B and corntry.

  2. Re:Lets talk about the KISS method... on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right but I can't wear two headsets at the same time. I know I can just go skipping off to the Walmart/Target/Radio Hut/Whatever RIGHT NOW and get a phone that will allow me to answer the phone perfectly. That's not something I would need the help of the entire slashdot community to get done. K? Thx

  3. Re:The first thing I though of when I read this on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    No NO! It's not what you think I swear!! I don't make cold calls! People call ME! I'm going to lose karma over this I know it. :-( I've had a telemarketing job. I quit the day I called someone who was dead, and never looked back.

  4. Re:Why? Overkill? on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 0

    The far more expensive computer which I already own, which will be wasting power while I'm at work regardless, and has more up-time than the viagra mascot? If you're not going to be helpful you could at least not assume I'm retarded.

  5. Re:Not a softphone on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    The reason he didn't ask your suggested question is simply because that is not what he wants to know.

    He is asking what software is required to route the internal modem's POTS audio to the speakers and mic. Most decent modems used to come with the necessary dialler software, however it is rapdidly disappearing.

    He is NOT asking for external hardware to manage the relative levels of the PC audio and a separate POTS system.

    Mod parent up, he gets it! :-)

  6. Re:Not a softphone on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not pretending anything. I think I explained it quite clearly. Here let me dumb it down for you. I log into a program called aspect with a username and password. Aspect rings my home phone. Ring ring ring! I then enter a code displayed in Aspect. If I enter this code correctly, it STAYS CONNECTED TO MY PHONE LINE for the entirety of my work day. I can then use the dial pad in aspect to make and recieve phone calls. If I get an inbound call there's a whisper on the line that says "you have an incoming call" What I'm trying to do is avoid not hearing a call because my phone was setting on my desk and I like my music loud, or having a customer say "Are you watching Batman..." because they can hear it, or someother such nonsense. If you're going to take the time to reply, take the time to read the original post, and stop being insulting because YOU don't understand something. Just say "I don't get it" it's cool, slashdotters are helpful.

  7. Re:Perhaps a better solution... on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    That's very clever, and would probably work remarkably well, but I need to do this by tomorrow. :-) So I'm either buying a phone tonight or clicking download.

  8. The Probe on NASA to Launch Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    "Our chief engineer has high hopes that this will... if successful... generate power, to keep us alive." Oh and um... save the whales.