Not sure if you qualify but check out http://techsoup.org/ They are a clearing house for donated hardware & software to non-profits. The non-profit I have done some work for has used them for Microsoft and Cisco products.
I have no experience with any of the Blackbaud products but it looks like they has something from them.
I bet your energy usage calculation would be higher if you included what you use while at work. Since this family works from home I bet there are many items running for 8+ hours/day that you have turned off when you go to work.
Well, I am not sure about the climate control system being shut down. I believe the article is talking about RDS-TMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel which can be sent along with a radio signal and someone could sent bogus info.
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Not sure if you qualify but check out http://techsoup.org/ They are a clearing house for donated hardware & software to non-profits. The non-profit I have done some work for has used them for Microsoft and Cisco products.
I have no experience with any of the Blackbaud products but it looks like they has something from them.
I bet your energy usage calculation would be higher if you included what you use while at work. Since this family works from home I bet there are many items running for 8+ hours/day that you have turned off when you go to work.
Well, I am not sure about the climate control system being shut down. I believe the article is talking about RDS-TMS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel which can be sent along with a radio signal and someone could sent bogus info.
I thought the internets came in tubes.