Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Bo Holt
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Wed Sep 30 2026 09:06 pm

  Re: Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
  By: Bo Holt to Kurt Weiske on Thu Sep 10 2026 21:48:32


 BH> I work at a so-called IT office (government run) with non-IT people making
 BH> IT decisions.  As a little kid, I always thought that I'd grow up to work
 BH> in a building like Cyberdyne Systems from T2, surrounded by REAL computer
 BH> people who had a PASSION for computers, like me.  Where I am could not be
 BH> anymore opposite than that.  I ramble here to go that if I didn't have my

I know the feeling. My boss doesn't know what I do, or anything about it. The 
boss isn't even in the same country or time zone. 

I remember attempting to talk about IT solutions, and just stuff I was 
interested in that hadn't become super mainstream, and the IT people just 
looked at me like I was on another planet. Something about the business unit we 
support causes most people to hide, deny, or reject their IT computing 
profession or passion. Some of the people attempted to buy expensive golf 
equipment, talk about golf while sucking at it, and never ever being accepted 
by the business for anything more than service crew. They/we were called "my IT 
guy." I think the IT crew felt low in the hierachy. 

On team meetings when I share my screen some of them call it the matrix. Its 
just a simple terminal accessing some RHEL system or who knows what nothing out 
of the ordinary, but they struggle with stuff like ping-ing ICMP echo another 
computer. Some of them created amazing and useful web applications, but as I 
said rejected their IT roots, ... except one of them, although he didn't talk 
about it much he was hardcore. He retired and currently restores pinball and 
old arcade systems. 

Sure do wish there were more computer people where I work, but I can say I'm 
luck to be where I am. 

I also wish I had a real POTS line, I did do some stuff with my USR 56k over 
the network via an SPA 122, and an opensource pbx. 

 BH> cubes, I don't know how I could do it.  I have 263 days more left before I
 BH> can retire from this with immediate benfits and go somehwere real.  Each
 BH> day they are making it harder and harder to keep my mouth shut ;)

Hang in there. You've gone to far to exit without that retirement. 
BBsing, Sysop of Lunar Outpost, lunarout.sycnhro.net
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