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Re: IM on a home debian network



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On 07/28/07 22:30, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:59:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 07/28/07 21:52, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Instant messaging on a home network?  Try a low-tech holler:
>>> 	"SOOOOEEE!  TURN ON THE MODEM!"
>> What ever happened to diald?
>>
> 
> Its an external Courier.  I meant push the button to turn it on.  It was
> only a humourous comment; my wife would kill me if I addressed her as
> SOOOOEE like I was calling in a cow;

It's even worse than that.  SOOOOEE is how you call a pig.

>                                       my wife wouldn't know what a modem
> looks like.

I didn't either, until someone pointed one (a 300 baud acoustic
coupler, in fact) out to me, and said, "That's a modem."

> To get the modem to connect, I ssh to that box and type:
> 	$pon courier
> 	$bwm-ng
> 
> and leave this VC 1 open.  VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or
> 	$watch -n 20 "from -c"
> 
> VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session).
> VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to.
> 
> There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 


- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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