The RPi makes an excellent home automation controller, mine's running Domoticz (www.domoticz.com) and controls some lighting and reads wireless temperature sensors around the house.
It's small and cheap and fast enough for this but I wouldn't run anything more advanced like a full LAMP stack or as a full time user desktop.
This +100... I honestly has never spared a second thought at having to manage a backup regime since I switched to Macs. A Time Capsule (you can get 3rd party ones as well as Apple ones) backs up the Macs in the house. If you have two TCs on the network Time Machine will even alternate between them so you can have two backups in different parts of the house.
I think the first batches were just loss leaders, the commercial versions you can order on their web site are about twice as much as the contracted prices to the government.
So how come it can be done in the UK and still sold at the same price?
Either there's a subsidy in place or the manufacturing cost is a negligible part of the selling price.
The article is a bit thin on detail on how exactly this will work and I suspect it will be a matter of minutes after the winning solution is implemented until the spammers find a work-around.
A couple of key things working against an effective solution are:
- Low cost calling. If there was at least some sort of opening fee for calls the ROI for spammers would be too high.
- Lack of ID. With many types of phone trunks you can inject the caller ID you want to display and only the core carriers see the true IDs for billing purposes.
Basically it's the same problems as SMTP has!
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The RPi makes an excellent home automation controller, mine's running Domoticz (www.domoticz.com) and controls some lighting and reads wireless temperature sensors around the house. It's small and cheap and fast enough for this but I wouldn't run anything more advanced like a full LAMP stack or as a full time user desktop.
This +100 ... I honestly has never spared a second thought at having to manage a backup regime since I switched to Macs. A Time Capsule (you can get 3rd party ones as well as Apple ones) backs up the Macs in the house. If you have two TCs on the network Time Machine will even alternate between them so you can have two backups in different parts of the house.
I think the first batches were just loss leaders, the commercial versions you can order on their web site are about twice as much as the contracted prices to the government.
So how come it can be done in the UK and still sold at the same price? Either there's a subsidy in place or the manufacturing cost is a negligible part of the selling price.
No your brain skimmed too quickly through the word Whitelist.
The article is a bit thin on detail on how exactly this will work and I suspect it will be a matter of minutes after the winning solution is implemented until the spammers find a work-around. A couple of key things working against an effective solution are: - Low cost calling. If there was at least some sort of opening fee for calls the ROI for spammers would be too high. - Lack of ID. With many types of phone trunks you can inject the caller ID you want to display and only the core carriers see the true IDs for billing purposes. Basically it's the same problems as SMTP has!
Typiskt, hade precis använt mina sista modpoints. Förut kunde ord vara ogooglebara men nu är dom o-ogooglebara!
Oh no, out of mod points.