Re: Fw: x10, CBUS, and a VIOM - your views?

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 16:29 +0100, Gareth Cook wrote:
> I dont want any PC shinnanigans controlling anything.

Out of interest, why not?

It's interesting getting the sales feedback from the call centre these
days. About half of our customers don't want to leave a PC running 24/7,
and the other half have no problem whatsoever, and don't understand why
the other half do :-)

I leave the servers running 24/365, and can't remember the last time any
of them crashed [1]. The desktop / laptops are a different proposition
mind - less stable - but I do tend to muck around with the configs on
those an awful lot, and accept loss of stability as the trade off for
"testbed."

[1] I run 3 servers -

1: the "live" server - Windows: music server (Rios), fileserver
(all
kinds of stuff), HA (Harmony)

2: the backup / Asterisk server - backs up the data volumes of the live
server once an hour over SMB. Also runs the * system (4 extensions, 1
analogue trunk, 1 external SIP "trunk".)

3: a client server, that runs their file sharing over OpenVPN. They have
3 field-based staff. In principle this is moving to their MD's house as
soon as he gets a round tuit :-) Thanks to Patrick Lidstone of this
group for introducing me to OpenVPN which works terribly, terribly well
in this setup.

Regards,

Mark