Comments on: My plans to kill the Telemarketer! http://adrianotto.com/2009/07/my-plans-to-kill-the-telemarketer/ For those who care about technical details Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: aotto http://adrianotto.com/2009/07/my-plans-to-kill-the-telemarketer/comment-page-1/#comment-6 aotto Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:30:40 +0000 http://adrianotto.com/?p=63#comment-6 Thanks for your comment Brian. Setting up a blacklist is rather simple too. Maybe I'll make a simple interface so you can call an "extension" that lets you add the CID of the last caller to the blacklist automatically... or better yet listen during calls for a DTMF code that will blacklist the CURRENT call and hang up on it with a pre-recorded greeting along the lines of "Please remove my number from your calling list. We are not interested in your call. Please do not call back." I had a similar setup once before and found it to be highly effective. I've been planning to simply boot the system from one of those cheap USB flash drives. Since it's not going to get a whole lot of usage that should work nicely. Chances are I'll simply set up a LiveCD distribution and copy it to the USB device, then set it to be bootable in the BIOS. You can get these devices now with reasonable capacity for under $10 which is cheaper than any hard drive. With a small ATOM CPU I should be able to make an affordable system that requires no moving parts, so it's likely to run for a very long time, and not use much electrical power. If it works nicely and there's interest I'll make a whole bunch of the USB boot drives and sell them for my cost plus any donation you feel appropriate. Just comment here to register your interest. If you don't want your post to be public, just say so in your post and I'll refrain from putting it on the blog. Thanks for your comment Brian. Setting up a blacklist is rather simple too. Maybe I’ll make a simple interface so you can call an “extension” that lets you add the CID of the last caller to the blacklist automatically… or better yet listen during calls for a DTMF code that will blacklist the CURRENT call and hang up on it with a pre-recorded greeting along the lines of “Please remove my number from your calling list. We are not interested in your call. Please do not call back.” I had a similar setup once before and found it to be highly effective.

I’ve been planning to simply boot the system from one of those cheap USB flash drives. Since it’s not going to get a whole lot of usage that should work nicely. Chances are I’ll simply set up a LiveCD distribution and copy it to the USB device, then set it to be bootable in the BIOS. You can get these devices now with reasonable capacity for under $10 which is cheaper than any hard drive. With a small ATOM CPU I should be able to make an affordable system that requires no moving parts, so it’s likely to run for a very long time, and not use much electrical power.

If it works nicely and there’s interest I’ll make a whole bunch of the USB boot drives and sell them for my cost plus any donation you feel appropriate. Just comment here to register your interest. If you don’t want your post to be public, just say so in your post and I’ll refrain from putting it on the blog.

]]> By: Brian http://adrianotto.com/2009/07/my-plans-to-kill-the-telemarketer/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Brian Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:39:14 +0000 http://adrianotto.com/?p=63#comment-5 I've wanted to build something like that for a while! I wanted to add filters to immediately dump calls that came from blocked or 800 numbers too. If/when you get this going, share your contexts? And, curiously, how do you plan to run tbCE with no HDD? Live CD style? I’ve wanted to build something like that for a while! I wanted to add filters to immediately dump calls that came from blocked or 800 numbers too. If/when you get this going, share your contexts?

And, curiously, how do you plan to run tbCE with no HDD? Live CD style?

]]> By: Nathan Clark http://adrianotto.com/2009/07/my-plans-to-kill-the-telemarketer/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Nathan Clark Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:01:51 +0000 http://adrianotto.com/?p=63#comment-2 What an awesome plan. Yes please share the details, I'm sure the devil is in there. What an awesome plan. Yes please share the details, I’m sure the devil is in there.

]]>