[svlug] Earthquake

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 10/31/07, John Conover <conover at rahul.net> wrote:
> I had my phone on the serial port on one of my Linux boxes, and used
> it to send text messages, and dial a VOX number.
>
> The text messages seemed to have a much better chance of getting
> through than the VOX dials.

You don't need a cell phone to send SMS text messages.  There are
methods to do this per provider via email, or lesser a known method,
using the smssend utility.  There is a package in debian for
smssend...

$ sudo aptitude install smssend
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Kristian Erik Hermansen