Actually, I think more of the Ultra-poor with children have cable / satellite TV. I've been on several mission trips (Go do work on houses for free), and while not all had computers (most) Every single one had cable or sattelite TV because in a lot of places their is nothing else to do.
I was just researching this, I myself am making a 1 TB storage server. I have come up with the following solution. 1 Broadcom BC4852 Serial ATA Raid drive. Now this thing works wonders, and only costs (approx) 362$. It can change raid levels without bringing it down (IE, start with 1 HD, pop another in once you buy it, SATA is hotswap, and Move to raid 1 or Raid 0 automagically, pop another in and go raid 5.), it supports 8 drives PER controller, and you can use 4 controllers (AND THEY ALL ACT AS ONE). This means you can have up to 8 TERRABYTES using 250 GB drives, or 7.75 TB raid 5. The 160 GB drives are about 169$ a piece so add a basic motherboard and chassis and you got a full system. Dont forget a bunch of drive trays if you want to hot swap.
I purchased an External USB wireless card from microsoft once... I tried to connect it to a linksys router with wep. I tried to connect it to a linksys router without wep. The microsoft technician tried to connect it to anything. No avail. After 3+ hours of no situational improvement I gave up trying to get microsoft's equipment working on microsoft's operating system and just got a different card.
I believe the reason for not allowing mobile phones (is an FCC restriction btw) stems from problems that they had "in the begginining" where several hundred cell towers would "see" your cell phone and begin try to transfer you arround to the one with the best signal... since you were moving so rapidly, and in view of so many towers, it would cause a "DoS" style attack on the towers... Or maybe I'm making that up... not sure;)
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Actually, I think more of the Ultra-poor with children have cable / satellite TV. I've been on several mission trips (Go do work on houses for free), and while not all had computers (most) Every single one had cable or sattelite TV because in a lot of places their is nothing else to do.
I was just researching this, I myself am making a 1 TB storage server. I have come up with the following solution. 1 Broadcom BC4852 Serial ATA Raid drive. Now this thing works wonders, and only costs (approx) 362$. It can change raid levels without bringing it down (IE, start with 1 HD, pop another in once you buy it, SATA is hotswap, and Move to raid 1 or Raid 0 automagically, pop another in and go raid 5.), it supports 8 drives PER controller, and you can use 4 controllers (AND THEY ALL ACT AS ONE). This means you can have up to 8 TERRABYTES using 250 GB drives, or 7.75 TB raid 5. The 160 GB drives are about 169$ a piece so add a basic motherboard and chassis and you got a full system. Dont forget a bunch of drive trays if you want to hot swap.
I just have a Halon fire supression system in my basement. I may not be alive after it goes off, but my equipment will be!
I purchased an External USB wireless card from microsoft once... I tried to connect it to a linksys router with wep. I tried to connect it to a linksys router without wep. The microsoft technician tried to connect it to anything. No avail. After 3+ hours of no situational improvement I gave up trying to get microsoft's equipment working on microsoft's operating system and just got a different card.
I believe the reason for not allowing mobile phones (is an FCC restriction btw) stems from problems that they had "in the begginining" where several hundred cell towers would "see" your cell phone and begin try to transfer you arround to the one with the best signal... since you were moving so rapidly, and in view of so many towers, it would cause a "DoS" style attack on the towers... Or maybe I'm making that up... not sure ;)