Recent content by odoketa

I would second that, though I would also add that having a 'getting started' guide that gets updated periodically would be nice. I know what asterisk is, I know - in theory - how it gets to the outside world (i.e. the 'real' telephone lines), and I have some idea that there are devices I could...

Easy! I just did this - the electrician wasn't cheap (turns out my house has fireblocks, which they had to drill thru), and it took a bit of explaining to get them to understand that all I needed them to do was run the wire, but now I have hard-wired internet to my HTPC, which was definitely...

I'm a little concerned about spam ratings myself, but, as you say, spam will happen regardless. I certainly think ratings make sense. If you're really feeling fiesty, let me build my rating pool from other users - people who have shown they have something useful to say.

It very much depends on the manufacturer, and will change over time. I had an old Mac that ate over ten watts when everything was off - I don't think it did that when it was new (though I suppose it could have been flawed from the start). Generally speaking, cheaper stuff comes with cheaper...

firmware I have to admit the thing that's keeping me going is open source - my NSLU2 is a full fledged server now, and my wrt54g is running tomato, doing QOS and giving me pretty charts of the bandwidth out of my house. I do wish we were seeing higher throughput at the home network / SOHO...

I couldn't agree more! While initially, trying to get maximum bandwidth is the key, I would definitely be interested in knowing if we could also get that bandwidth in half the wattage.

I noticed a number of announcements recently about BitTorrent support on various NASs. Is anyone using these? I assume when they refer to 'support' they mean a client running on the NAS, yes? Do you then use a client on your computer of choice, or is it generally web-based administration? I'm...