From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 12:13:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA07113 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:13:43 -0700 Received: from clark.net (rjw@clark.net [168.143.0.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA07107 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:13:41 -0700 Received: (rjw@localhost) by clark.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id PAA03545; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:13:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Weldon To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD In-Reply-To: <199507180707.AAA01492@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > o Voice and Fax -- right now my FreeBSD box serves as an answering/fax > machine . I really like this a lot since I hate answering machines or > stupid fax machines. Nor scanner though. Do you have anything written up on how you are doing this? Even a quick thing like this is what I am using and the hardware involved if any. > > o Occasionally, I watched a VideoCD on my box or on TV. > The other day I gave a demo to an old friend of mine and he sat down > and watch the whole movie so watch out! Since, I had already seen > the movie I just kept on typing on my system :) How are you pulling this off as well? Just call him Mr. Multimedia. :-) My day job I work for the Air Force. We use FreeBSD boxes as mail gateways, desktop workstations etc... Right now we are setting up a Multicast network internally for communications between serveral divisions scattered around the Pentagon. I anticipate using FreeBSD boxes with GUS cards, mic's etc.... to put out in the user areas for commo among the offices. They are a wonderfully cheap solution for this type of stuff. I would be very interested in setting them up as fax/answering systems that could record mail messages and let the user play them back on their SUN/FreeBSD mime capable workstation. Is this far-fetched or even possible? I seem to remember Amancio posting something like this a while back. > Okay, is not rocket science ... Sounds like rocket science to me. :-) > > Enjoy, > Amancio Rick Weldon