The PerfectOffice supports remote presence: voice, text, video, ...
I spend a lot of time in teleconferences, and I've tried a lot of gizmos and services in an effort to make that part of my life easier. I currently use:
- Vonage VoIP? service with a Cisco ATA 186
- Uniden TRUc56? 2.4 GHz? Phone. UPACode 050633201190 amazon wants $50 (headset flaked out today, 7Jan2004)
- a Plantronics M110. UPACode 017229053205. I'm pretty happy with it. It has 3 volume settings for the microphone. I got mine at Micro Center for $19.99+tax, but I don't see it in their online catalog. But I do see Plantronics Headset M110 for Mobile & Cordless Phones for $12.99 at amazon.
- sometimes a TelAgentModem.
(see OPKSNet for diagram and such)
I also make extensive use of ESemWeb:InternetRelayChat, sometimes as a supplement to phone calls. I use:
- DebianPackage:xchat and sometimes DebianPackage:gaim (and fire as a StudentOfMacOsX) and ircbridge.py (@@) from my WearableGizmo.
xchat RFE: drag log files to email. (12 sep)
I'd sure like to add VideoPresence to the mix.
New Phone Uses WLAN or Cel Networks
12Apr2004: picked up a Uniden TRUc56? 2.4 GHz? Phone at SAM's for $30. UPACode 050633201190 . advantagess:
- mute button
- integrated caller-id
- amazingly small
- 2-ear headset has great audio quality
disadvantages:
- belt-clip has to come off when you put it in the charging holster
- doens't work without headset
- no speaker-phone
- 2-ear headset isn't as comfortable as the Plantronics M110
- near 802.11 in the spectrum. (I haven't seen any problems, but I've seen some reported.)
older:
a 900mhz phone@@ (replaced: 2.4GHz Call Waiting Caller ID Cordless Telephone; BE-3850BK. ~$40 at SAM's, 18Aug2002. UPACode: 075668838500. . Amazon wants $50 for it. TT Systems seems to have made it, then Bell Equipment SONECOR put their label on the front. No, it's actually made by phonemate. It has a NiMh? battery)
6Jul2003: tried out DebianPackage:psi, a jabber client. gale. discussion in RDFIG.
19Jun2003: found a 900mhz cordless phone with a nice form factor at walgreens while picking up perscriptions for Justin (@@link to tonsilectomy photos). no caller id, but it's a speakerphone.
29Mar2003 sure enough, the el-cheapo headset on my 2.4ghz phone went bad. I replaced it with a Plantronics M110.
Mar 2003: hmm... FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus? Mar 27 2003 1:11AM
Feb 2003: U.S. Endorses Merging Telephone, Internet Numbers Thu Feb 13, 5:42 PM ET By Andy Sullivan, Reuters
7Jan2003 Hmm... Vonage looks nifty, provided AlwaysOnInternet is sufficiently reliable. 26Mar I'm signed up and operational. See OPKSNet diagram for details.
Can I dial using the network somehow? Well, dtmf dialing works, of course.
Hmm... can I get caller-id from the Cisco ATA 186 somehow? Maybe by using POTS technology?
18Aug2002: new 2.4ghz phone. I'm kinda worried about the reliability of the headset, though; it's got one of those little connectors that went bad on my first phone.
Aug 2002: That voipblaster@@ sure was cool; it almost worked. they're back. refurb $30. slashdot story.
Jun 2002: trying to get gnomemeeting working thru my NAT firewall. faq suggests it's tricky. They suggest RSIP as an alternative to NAT.
Mar 2002: ircle isn't OpenSource?; ShadowIRC looks promising... pretty much just using chatzilla any more).
2001: see Teleconference Gizmo from 1998, 2001.
investigated jabber, client side --connolly, Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:00:34 +0000 reply
notes on psi etc. to come
also investigating a jabber service on people.w3.org
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