my landline phone is electric, so power outages can't be gotten around.
I always make sure I have one that runs off of phoneline power only, just in case.
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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§ ita § - Jan 31, 2009 7:11:40 pm PST #9011 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
megan walker - Jan 31, 2009 8:07:22 pm PST #9012 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Even if I weren't a luddite in general, 9/11 and the 2003 blackout alone would have convinced me of the usefulness of having a corded landline.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 01, 2009 2:56:17 am PST #9013 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think if you live in the land of snow and ice, land lines are less reliable, as ice storms or heavy snow have certainly knocked mine out. I have never lost cell use, except for no being able to recharge, but since I work in a hospital which is powered by itself (we use the excess steam from our steam heat to make electricity or something-- we actually sell some to the power company) I can always go recharge
Jessica - Feb 01, 2009 4:01:53 am PST #9014 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If you have a dial tone, you can dial 911 from a corded phone with or without phone service to that line.
omnis_audis - Feb 01, 2009 10:35:29 am PST #9015 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Laga, I succomed to info mercial and ordered the MagicJack. It's $20/year voip. I'm getting it so I can have a local phone number for the main gate to call and be buzzed in. It's not quite a land line. But not a cell. Just need hi speed Internet.
Laga - Feb 01, 2009 11:09:29 am PST #9016 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yes, that's the bundling that would save us $100 a month, if we went with voip. If we switch cable and internet to Verizon we save $60 a month. Right now we have Verizon for the phone and Time Warner for the cable and internet. And we don't even have nickleodeon, I found out when I tried to tune in to the new Wolverine:X-Men.
Gudanov - Feb 02, 2009 5:29:02 am PST #9017 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
We have Time Warner bundled for cable and internet and then use Vonage for telephone and have been fine, but we do have a cell phone as backup. Vonage had the advantage of being both cheaper than Time Warner telephone service and not partitioning off bandwidth. It gives us a "land line" for faxing and minutes since we have a cheap low minute cell phone plan.
tommyrot - Feb 02, 2009 7:06:28 am PST #9018 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone good at writing DOS scripts? I want a .bat file that I can execute with a right-click (using the "send to" menu) that will create a copy of the selected file, with the year, month and date appended to the end of the file name, like so:
filetobebackedup.extyymmdd
...with yymmdd being the current date.
beekaytee - Feb 02, 2009 7:56:11 am PST #9019 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
No thoughts on ink cartridge purveyors?
Ginger - Feb 02, 2009 8:06:06 am PST #9020 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've been using these [link] for about six months with no trouble.