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Once you get over that hurdle, setup is pretty straightforward. You plug a standard phone line into one hole in the back of the box and a standard telephone receiver into the other. You use the telephone to dial your Internet provider and to punch in your log-in and password. Then the Aplio--with its built-in modem--takes over, connecting you to the party you are trying to speak to. It connects you, that is, if the party has an Aplio synched to yours, which probably requires enough prearrangement by telephone to eat up most of that...
...Connor offered advice for students with heating problems. He noted that every time he receives a heating complaint, he asks the student to check for furniture which has been inadvertently placed in front of a radiator, to check for open windows, and to make sure the radiator dial has been turned...
...resident said that the hacker "appeared to be from a dial-up account in Michigan...
While on-campus callers can't jump to better long distance rates on their regular direct-dial long distance calls, relief may be in sight for those who are willing to forsake hearing a pin drop in order to keep their dime...
...full two-thirds of American households--may get a sinking feeling of another sort if they try to tune in. Cable companies are refusing, for now, to carry broadcasters' HDTV signals, saying information-rich HDTV channels overtax their systems and will force some existing cable channels off the dial. Viewers who want decent reception, therefore, will have to buy clunky, old-fashioned TV antennas if they plan to pull in digital broadcasts. Both sides hope to resolve the matter, but for the foreseeable future, "there will be a lot of finger pointing going on," says Torie Clarke, a spokesperson...