OSS helps give voice to beach condition reporting system
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| How do you make an Internet-centric reporting system easily accessible to
| non-computer users? By taking advantage of unused hardware and open source
| software. We used some shell scripts, a mothballed Multitech MT5600 modem,
| two applications written in Tcl, and vgetty, an open source utility that
| turns a compatible modem into a telephone answering machine.
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| Vgetty is included in most current Linux distributions as part of the
| mgetty+Sendfax package.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/1728227&from=rss
Related:
Linux aids the hunt for red tide in Sarasota
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| While we haven't yet discovered a remedy for red tide, Linux and
| the open source community provided a potent prescription for
| curing our data distribution dilemma.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/148230&from=rss
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