Archive for March, 2010
March 23rd, 2010
I received an interesting phone call today from a prospective client who was looking to supply a very intricate click to call interface to his website visitors.
Basically he wanted the ability to:
- Provide any number of ‘individual’ click to call services to individual’s in his company from different areas of the website
- Have these services live so that if the individual was unavailable, it would disable the click to call functionality
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March 15th, 2010
After a fair bit of research we have finally found a piece of land that we would like to build on when we get back from OS. We are seeing the real estate agent today to put an offer on it. At the same time we will be listing our current place with the same agent – give them some incentive to sell!
March 4th, 2010
On this theme of 1300 numbers, I just wanted to put a little more information out there to answer the question on how 1300 number and 1800 numbers work.
Unfortunately, it’s not such a simple answer, we will need to discuss the basics of how the telephone network works in order to answer it.
First, lets discuss the telephone network. When you lift your handset and enter the number you want to dial, or push dial on your mobile, the system on the other end received this command.
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March 2nd, 2010
I see a lot of questions on forums and such as to why businesses get 13,1300 or 1800 numbers.
Let’s clear it up by defining the pro’s and con’s. By the end of this I’m sure you will understand the businesses decision to get one.
First of, lets discuss the Cons:
- It costs more for mobile callers to call as the call type is outside of most capped plans.
- It costs money to have the service connect in terms of monthly fees and you pay per minute rates for every call you receive.
- 13, 1300 and 1800 numbers are local to Australia, so international callers cannot use them. The only option here is to have a international number listed.
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March 1st, 2010
Setup your Linux box to automatically login via ssh to servers you manange regularly.
First I setup some hosts.
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Add your hosts in the following format
1.2.3.4 example01
1.2.3.5 example02
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