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OT: Remote Alarm

Does there exist a product such as this...

Some kind of wireless link between my PC and a pocket-sized device that would notify me of incoming Skype calls; or E-mail?

Desired range: about 60'.

Thanks! ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Put a blue tooth connection to your PC for a wireless head set. set Skype to use audible sounds.. You just keep a blue tooth ear bud in. That's the easiest way with out doing some coding..

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Jamie

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Install Skype in your mobile phone?

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E

On a sunny day (Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:21:16 -0700) it happened Jim Thompson wrote in :

It is just a few lines of script in Linux to send an SMS text message from the PC to to my GSM mobile phone if any event on the PC happens.

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Jan Panteltje

Get a wifi-capable mobile phone?

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Jasen Betts

=A0 =A0 ...Jim Thompson

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=A0 | =A0 =A0 et =A0 =A0 =A0|

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=A0 =A0 =A0 |

Wal-Mart sells a Skype adapter that you can plug a regular phone into. Just plug a regular cordless phone into that. -mpm

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mpm

If you have a wireless network you can buy a Wi-Fi cordless phone for a little over $100 that will let you connect directly to Skype over your network. You don't even need to have a computer tured on to use Skype.

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Michael A. Terrell

Good ideas, Jason and Michael!

Since I'm of the old school... wired this place with CAT5 when we moved in 16 years ago... I just don't think wireless (?)

(?) I'm not the kind who needs his laptop in his hands all the time... when I go to eat dinner, I leave my office and thoughts (usually :-) behind. But with clients in HK, their 9AM is my 6PM :-( ...Jim Thompson

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| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
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Jim Thompson

your news client is using the wrong character encoding hex 86 is not printable in ISO8859-1

possibly is supposed to be windows-1252 ?

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Jasen Betts

I can see it just fine :-) Maybe you're using the wrong character set... or newsreader... you wouldn't be using Outhouse Excuse would you ?:-)

I'm using Agent v6.

Wa-a-a-ay back when I first started using it, I set the character set based on many inputs here.

My set-ups:

Code Page: Western Europe (Codepage 1252) Send Usenet As: Western Windows-compatible (us-ascii, ISO-8859-1) Default Charset: ASCII (us-ascii) Usenet Text: 7bit/8bit

So your "hex 86 is not printable" comment about ISO-8859-1... maybe a printer issue? "?" prints just fine to my hp P2015dn. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |

                   Spice is like a sports car... 
     Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
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Jim Thompson

Just a solid square block here, I forgot what it's supposed to be. Gave up pointing such things out to ppl years ago ;)

Grant.

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Grant

What reader are you using? ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |

                   Spice is like a sports car... 
     Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
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Jim Thompson

Agent 6.

Decimal codes 127 to 159 are "Unused (truly!)" in , see:

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That's a page I bookmarked for html character reference, close to any 'standard' one could get these days.

Though not the standard for Usenet, since it's supposed to be

7bit clean ASCII (historically), what we all had before those foreign language people insisted on seeing their own language character glyphs properly rendered ;)

Grant.

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Grant

Are your Agent set-ups exactly like mine? ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |

                   Spice is like a sports car... 
     Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
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Jim Thompson

Just have the computer call you on your cell phone. ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

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Rich Grise

UTF-8, it seems to work for almost everything.

Only when paid to do so and then only for short priods.

slrn here

Ah, so you set it to tell lies, that seems an odd choice.

86 is a control character in ISO-8859-1, it does not have a glyph.
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( a laser printer) :-) not quite what I meant.

-- ¡spu?? ou '?? ?oo?

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Jasen Betts

Huh? I'm not at all expert on this. So I asked here _many_ years ago. Made my settings as advised. Haven't had a lick of trouble.

Maybe one complaint a year that something can't be read.

On-screen as well.

Why is it you use UTF-8? ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |

                   Spice is like a sports car... 
     Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
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Jim Thompson

...

There's quite a push towards utf-8 because it's the same as us-ascii for the set of 7bit printable chars. Escape sequences bring out the extra characters.

Grant.

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Grant

But you can't see my symbols ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

Can if I want to ;) It was a dagger char (html † 0x86, 134), already wrote that in the reply that included a reference url, no?

But it renders as a solid black block in the monospace font I normally use (Fixedsys 9pt Western).

Grant.

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Grant

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