There's also Skype.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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dcp - Dec 03, 2009 4:55:34 pm PST #11883 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
DCJensen - Dec 03, 2009 5:17:01 pm PST #11884 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Is there a way to fake an area code in a phone call?
Could you get a a cheap cell phone and activate it in a different area code?
Yeah, In the realm of the cheap, when I registered my TracPhone they just had me give a prefix that was local/area and my name for the display. I could have registered any name any where, I suppose.
You could try buying a calling card on the Internet.
Most of the time when people I know use a calling card, it comes up registered to the card company, and doesn't transmit the originator's caller ID. This caused a bit of a problem when I had a card and tried calling people on their cell phones, they had no idea who was calling.
omnis_audis - Dec 04, 2009 9:23:30 am PST #11885 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
there is always MagicJack. $20/year for a phone number that you choose where you want it from.
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 10:26:36 am PST #11886 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The missus is looking for a wiki to host the goings-on of an international scholarly committee. She's looking for a hosted service, not just the software. And it should be free. Does such a service exist and are they any good?
Ideally, the college that hosts the organization of which the committee is a part will let them glom onto whatever they use for courses; this is in case a Plan B is needed.
amych - Dec 04, 2009 10:45:34 am PST #11887 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wikispaces: [link] (my go-to option, good solid basic wiki tools without a lot of fuss)
pbworks: [link] (lots of different price points/options; a fair bit of upgrade-hints, but note free option cleverly hidden on the "academic pricing" page)
wikia: [link] (but this one always seems more oriented towards big public projects on a particular subject, rather than project wikis for a specific group, conference, etc.)
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 11:13:15 am PST #11888 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, amych!
amych - Dec 04, 2009 11:24:28 am PST #11889 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
you're welcome -- it's always nice when stuff I know off the top of my head can be, you know, actually useful.
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 11:25:05 am PST #11890 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I love it when that happens. Win-win!
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2009 11:39:51 am PST #11891 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
MoinMoin has a free desktop wiki program: [link] which intrigues me. I could annotate EVERYTHING!
DCJensen - Dec 05, 2009 7:29:01 pm PST #11892 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Milliways: the unreleased Infocom sequel to HHGG
The saga:
the game itself, playable online: