Random questions to which you seek an answer

[mclaincausey]

Thanks!

[natehate]

how does a canadian text a english number?

[Seul]

Slowly (ey)…

[Giles]

Let me see if I can find anything oot aboot that question…

[thomasnunnally]

@Seul:

Slowly (ey)…

Haha!

Nate, I don't think you have to do anything special…..maybe put the country code (1) before the number.  There can't be much to it.

[Giles]

Nope, you need to do +44 then the number without the leading zero….

So my mobile is 07740706464

You would text:

+44 7740706464
or 0044 7740706464

[thomasnunnally]

@Giles:

Nope, you need to do +44 then the number without the leading zero….

So my mobile is 07740706464

You would text:

+44 7740706464
or 0044 7740706464

So why do you brits have that leading 0 then?  Otherwise it makes sense.  Also, whats the logic on these country codes….never thought about it before.

[Seul]

Same for Belgium… My digits are 0485 XX XX XX, if you'd wanna text me it'd be 0032485 XX XX XX..

[natehate]

okay new problem
im receiving texts but cant respond?

[jdl1279]

Thomas,

I don't see how it's any different here in the States, you dial 1+ area code to dial anything that isn't local. Now add a country code, which they would need as well calling us, ours happens to be a extra 1. Do you see how the numbers then fall into place?

[natehate]

never mind i got it

[thomasnunnally]

@jdl1279:

Thomas,

I don't see how it's any different here in the States, you dial 1+ area code to dial anything that isn't local. Now add a country code, which they would need as well calling us, ours happens to be a extra 1. Do you see how the numbers then fall into place?

I never have to use a country code within the US.  But, I have a feeling that is already built in, which is logical.  I don't get the extra zeros that Giles mentioned

If you look online, not all countries use that prefix.  Also, why is Uzbekistan 998, UK 44 and US, 1?

The question isn't important at all, but I couldn't extract the reasoning from wikipedia, so just wondering what the logic is.

[Giles]

@Seul:

Same for Belgium… My digits are 0485 XX XX XX, if you'd wanna text me it'd be 0032485 XX XX XX..

@thomasnunnally:

@Giles:

Nope, you need to do +44 then the number without the leading zero….

So my mobile is 07740706464

You would text:

+44 7740706464
or 0044 7740706464

So why do you brits have that leading 0 then?  Otherwise it makes sense.  Also, whats the logic on these country codes….never thought about it before.

Virtually every country has a leading zero in their phone number.

Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan

and this:

http://wikitravel.org/en/List_of_country_calling_codes

[Giles]

The 00 or + is to indicate to the country that you are dialling from that you want to dial outside the country.

[Giles]

And here is a "fascinating" read….

http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/sp/T-SP-E.164D-2009-PDF-E.pdf

[Qinhan]

Shame on me for actually opening that and expecting to see something interesting.

[Arabit]

Whats the maximum amount of PM's you can store

[Chris]

I'm not sure there's a limit.  I think Giles mentioned once that he has over five thousand.

[emceeQ]

Computer savy folk,  my roommates and I seem to have lost the ability to access flickr.com from within my home network.  Anyone have any idea what may be causing this?  I've been puzzling through it and tried a few things, but to no avail…

[Snowy]

^let's do cray cray internet trouble shoot'n

If you're a mac, open "terminal" (click magnifying glass). If PC, Start>Run>Cmd(then enter), If PC Win 8, hit Start type Cmd (then enter)

Mac (1 per line);
dig flickr.com
dig flickr.com @8.8.8.8
ping flickr.com

PC (1 per line);
nslookup flickr.com
nslookup
server=8.8.8.8
flickr.com
quit
ping flickr.com

That should help resolve it. Flickr has shitty quality issues with it's ad server, my money is that..