Would love to see it in action. I am sure I will find a use for it down the road after I get done being a masters degree student. <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Erik Mathis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@mathists.com" target="_blank">erik@mathists.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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cheap and works really well. you can setup how much to annoy you and
how to annoy you, will even stop the never ending pages.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>On 12/10/2012 10:25 AM, Lightner, Jeff
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We
use Nagios for monitoring and it sends email and/or text
messages to cell phones depending on what we choose in the
configuration files for each host and service we monitor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A
co-worker here told me at his last job they used a
commercial system that would call them and tell them things
from monitoring but usually it would wake you up so you
didn’t really get a chance to figure out what it was trying
to tell you before it hung up.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">However,
as an open source project it does sound cool and I think
other applications than monitoring might be good. Unless of
course you get the call that goes:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dave?
What are you doing Dave?...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Neal Rhodes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 10, 2012 9:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer
calling. Your process has completed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe I'm missing something. I do this
all the time by having our servers email
<myphonenumber>@<a href="http://vtext.com" target="_blank">vtext.com</a>. Converts to an SMS
message.
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Just make darn sure you throttle the number of messages.
It's no fun to get 60 text messages a minute when it really
goes off into the weeds.
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I'd rather get an SMS text message I can read whilst otherwise
occupied, versus an audio I have to listen to.
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Neal <br>
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On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:33 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski wrote: <u></u><u></u></p>
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<pre>I'd be very interested in this! I recently took a job with a place<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>might help troubleshooting would be a great.<u></u><u></u></pre>
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<pre>On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>> Sounds cool!<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>> Pete Hardie<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>> --------<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>> Better Living Through Bitmaps<u></u><u></u></pre>
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<pre>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <<a href="mailto:richard@bronosky.com" target="_blank">richard@bronosky.com</a>><u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> script named "callme". You can then go:<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> rsync /path server:/path || callme<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> useful.<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> for alerts of a less binary nature:<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> (If you get that joke, I hope you have young girls at home.)<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>><u></u> <u></u></pre>
<pre>>> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>>> prepare.<u></u><u></u></pre>
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