Here is a cool idea for anyone out there looking for a challenge.

Write a vb program that will listen to your phone line,
if someone calls and lets it ring say 10 times
then hangs up, calls again and lets it ring once, then hangs up.

This will cause the vb program to connect to the internet (by dialup or whatever), determine the computer's ip, and send a mail to an account, the mail would contain the computers ip.

Now the question is how hard would this be....

hmm, first the vb program would probably have to be a service, and then how would one listen to the phone for the ring events... Any ideas???