How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part VII

This is the last of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part VII: The Damage With everything finally working, it was …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part VI

This is the sixth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part VI: Ethernot My TurboNet card still wasn’t working. I …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part V

This is the fifth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part V: My TiVo Gets Nervous With my TiVo networking …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part IV

This is the fourth of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part IV: Modem Misery With Lingo working, there was only …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part III

This is the third of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part III: Lingo Plan D: Lingo I lived with my …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part II

This is the second of seven parts of the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. Part II: More Modems and Windows On December 16, 2003 …

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How I Killed My Answering Machine: Part I

This is the story of how I killed my answering machine. How complicated can it be to replace a simple little device with something a little more geeky? About 17 months, $500 and countless hours – that’s how complicated. This story is ridiculously long, technical and includes lots of geeky terminology, so if you’re not …

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PTB

From Phonescoop: LG Extends “Push-To” Concept with PTB April 1, 2005 source: LG Electronics Following closely on the heels of the PTV (Push-To-View) technology it demonstrated at 3GSM in February – as well as other recent “push-to” technologies such as Push-To-Talk (PTT) and Push-To-Share – LG today announced a new “Push-To” technology designed to bring …

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