Tuesday, May 23, 2000
“We want your money, but not over the phone.”
The information I have about paying the ticket includes a day to pay by phone. Dial this number, seven days a week, MasterCard, Visa, American Express and debit cards accepted (and I have a debit card).
Cool! I think. So I pick up the phone and dial.
Busy. Only I get a recording from the ever so helpful phone company that for 75c I can have the phone company try the number for up to half an hour and ring me back. I hang up.
By the fourth try, I figure I'll take the callback option.
A few minutes later the phone rings. I pick it up, and the other phone is ringing. And ringing. And ringing. And ringing.
After 30 rings I'm beginning to think I punched in the wrong number and I wasted 75c. So I hang up, and try again, this time with the area code.
“You do not need to dial the area code when making this call. Please hang—”
Okay, dial without the area code, making sure I get the number correct.
Busy.
Try. Busy. Try. Busy. Try. Busy. Try. Ring. Whoops, don't hang up so fast. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.
So much for paying this ticket by phone.
Yet another free alternate operating system
Via kuro5hin is a link to AtheOS, another home brewed operating system that unlike most, actually runs and is serving up its own website. Seems promising although I haven't looked at the sources yes (multimegabyte downloads).
