Tech Life from Fresno

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What is an Ooma?
Ooma is a company in the busy space of VOIP (Voice over IP). If you've heard of Vonage, for example, Ooma competes there.

Why Ooma or any VOIP?

This was today's challenge: from a Mac Mini in one room, be able to somehow administer the Powerbook in another room.

Why do such a thing?

The reason is the need to fax pages sourced from Word documents. Most of the work is done from the Mini. However, it does not have any fax capability: no phone, no fax software.

What do we have here?

The Mini is running the latest Snow Leopard 10.6 software. We also have a PowerPC based PowerBook running Panther 10.3. It was never upgraded and is pointless now as 10.6 is Intel only.