Mmmmmmmm John .....

 JG>   Re: Funny code section
 JG>   By: Mike Luther to John Guillory on Thu Mar 25 2010 11:01 pm

 > I think you'll find it is called Majic Jack.

 JG>    Oh, $19.99/yr, I have 2 actually...  I was also 
 JG> thinking it was a POTS that allowed one to hook up
 JG> a modem to it and dial-out .... ;-)  I'm actually
 JG> giving skype a try, the quality sounds better than
 JG> magic jack.... But for Majic Jack, you can buy a
 JG> thin-client off ebay that allows you to plug the
 JG> magic jack in and you don't have to worry about the
 JG> magic jack software running on your computer....

Interesting!

I gotta investigate this.  One of my good technifriends from the 1970-80's
went to Majic Jack for linking he and his grownup gone away children.  It
has been a while since we talked about this.  We are in the USA 979 area
code here.  His Majic Jack 'area code' is in the 512 area code here.  Which
in that calling anywhere makes no technical difference.

But that COULD make a BBS difference unless you know how to do discrete
number setup for QNODE in your Nodelist configuration, chuckle.  And, of
course could be an issue if your NC was in 979 and your BBS was in 512 even
though it might be one block away in town.

At the time we talked about this a while back, this gentleman, Byron Young,
a really good tech fellow with computers who is totally oriented toward MAC
equipment, was the one who told me that Majic Jack was moving toward a
defined MAC interface and that, of course, no work on OS/2 was even on the
radar.  Byron suggested that I get a simple WIN box to just interface Majic
Jack alone and for no other Internet use.  However, I've not even thought
about that madness and don't intend to hobble up ANY itme which used
NETBIOS over TCP/IP on my systems here.

IN talking about this with someone else, they alerted me that there is a
big hoopla going on in Congress now, filed by what I think I recall was
Verizon initially, about how Majic Jack and this stuff is cratering the
whole 'normal' POTS area code 'definitions' about what a POTS number is
supposed to be and how to respectfully handle the entire 'normal' POTS
telephone frame operations for their switches.

High Ho, High Ho, it's up the laddie we go, chortle!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

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