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Site for looking up phone numbers?

  • 06-04-2001 3:00pm
    #1
    TwoShedsJackson
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    Anyone got a site for looking up phone numbers (esp. mobiles), to get details of the owner etc. if you don't want to be ringing Directory Enquiries all the time?


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  • #2
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    AFAIK, www.goldenpages.ie is the only "official" Irish one, although at my last time using it, it wasn't much good...
    Bard
    "Ooh! You're so clever today you'd better be careful your foot doesn't fall off." -Nursie


  • #3
    Lucifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Lucifer


    i dont think that does mobiles??? nemore???


  • #4
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    I never new directory enquiries would give you out information of the owner of mobiles if you gave them the number ...


  • #5
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,416 ✭✭✭jmcc


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
    AFAIK, www.goldenpages.ie is the only "official" Irish one, although at my last time using it, it wasn't much good...
    </font>

    Something very weird went on with that recent upgrade. The search facility is just not well designed. Of course in 1999 you could have downloaded the whole set of directories from GP until someone found that and also how to do reverse lookups - of course Eircom claimed it was impossible - they even told the technology journalists who printed the Eircom lies and then Eircom set about improving security all the time cursing a certain technology news site wink.gif. The security on their original CD-ROM was even worse - a toy protection system based on XORing a 96 byte word over the db - the db was Paradox I think.

    I think that as soon as the telcos can work out a method of getting a wappable directory site then it will go live. However the only solution at the moment is either directory enquiries or someone shoving an SMS > DB(Eircom CDROM) > SMS system together. The problem is not the software/tech - it is making it pay for itself. Damn I won't get any sleep now playing with that idea as a bit of mental bubblegum. :-)

    Actually, a few cheap prepaid phones with serial connections, some TCL and MySQL and a free SMS gateway should do it. It would be worth it just to see the look on the telco faces. Second thoughts, Postgres not MySQL - have to have transactions. Gotta get back in contact with some people who worked on replicating the GSM SIM cards a few years ago but first some sleep. wink.gif

    Regards...jmcc
    All ideas above (c) 2001 - jmcc (just in case it works.)


  • #6
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    thanks lads but no joy so far, that goldenpages site requires you to enter names etc., I need something where you enter the number and get the details.

    That stuff in the post above is way too techincal for me smile.gif


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  • #7
    amp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Oh god and I understood most of it.

    MUST.... GET.... LIFE....
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  • #8
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    CT I though you were warned about that stalking lark :P

    Gandalf.


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