Comments on: The Linux Answering Machine http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/the_linux_answering_machine/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Derek http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/the_linux_answering_machine/comment-page-1/#comment-5570 Derek Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:43:25 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=928#comment-5570 I wish there was an easy to use answering machine setup for the Mac. I don't see why it's so complicated. I can chat with live video and sound to someone in 10,000 miles away while I watch a DVD, record live TV, write emails and design a web page, but I'll be damned if I can get my $2,000 G5 to answer the damn phone for me. The only options out there cost $200 and require a separate phone plug-in thing. What on earth for? I have a modem already... Argh! I wish there was an easy to use answering machine setup for the Mac. I don’t see why it’s so complicated. I can chat with live video and sound to someone in 10,000 miles away while I watch a DVD, record live TV, write emails and design a web page, but I’ll be damned if I can get my $2,000 G5 to answer the damn phone for me.

The only options out there cost $200 and require a separate phone plug-in thing. What on earth for? I have a modem already… Argh!

]]> By: Diogo http://www.forevergeek.com/2004/11/the_linux_answering_machine/comment-page-1/#comment-5569 Diogo Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:43:31 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=928#comment-5569 Sure you could just buy an answering machine, but think of all the geek points you'd be missing out on! (no, I'm not going to do it) But seriously, people who undertake this sort of thing don't do it because it's the most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve a certain goal. They do it because it's /there/, just to see if it's doable. It's the centuries old human ingenuity at work. Sure you could just buy an answering machine, but think of all the geek points you’d be missing out on! (no, I’m not going to do it)

But seriously, people who undertake this sort of thing don’t do it because it’s the most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve a certain goal. They do it because it’s /there/, just to see if it’s doable. It’s the centuries old human ingenuity at work.

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