[ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your process has completed.

Tue Dec 11 11:19:04 EST 2012

I had pretty good success with my first pass at cleanup last night. I can
say with confidence that the first step is to sign up for a free developer
account with Tropo. https://www.tropo.com/pricing/

More to come

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Meek
<jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Erik Mathis <erik at mathists.com> wrote:
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>>  pagerduty.com
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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.
>>
>> -Erik-
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>> On 12/10/2012 10:25 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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>>  +1****
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>> 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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>> 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.****
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>> 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:****
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>> Dave?  What are you doing Dave?...****
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>> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org<ale-bounces at ale.org>]
>> *On Behalf Of *Neal Rhodes
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 9:56 AM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your
>> process has completed.****
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>> Maybe I'm missing something.   I do this all the time by having our
>> servers email <myphonenumber>@vtext.com.    Converts to an SMS message.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'd rather get an SMS text message I can read whilst otherwise occupied,
>> versus an audio I have to listen to.
>>
>> Neal
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>> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:33 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski wrote: ****
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>> I'd be very interested in this! I  recently took a job with a place****
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>> that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that****
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>> might help troubleshooting would be a great.****
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>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:****
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>> > Sounds cool!****
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>> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>****
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>> > wrote:****
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>> >> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call****
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>> >> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.****
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>> >> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)****
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>> >> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to****
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>> >> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,****
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>> >> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the****
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>> >> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a****
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>> >> script named "callme". You can then go:****
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>> >> rsync /path server:/path || callme****
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>> >> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you****
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>> >> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead****
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>> >> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on****
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>> >> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty****
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>> >> useful.****
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>> >> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an****
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>> >> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it****
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>> >> for alerts of a less binary nature:****
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>> >> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"****
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>> >> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to****
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