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In Germany flatrates are available for DSL only, so people, living in areas where DSL is not available, have to pay expensive time based fees for slowly connecting to the Internet. The problem is that M$ Windows and many of the installed tools are known for initiating internet connections although the user did not ask them to do so. Therefore it is crucial to reliably disconnect the ISDN line so that those unwanted connection attempts will not succeed. ISDN routers, which might be of help here, are hard to find nowadays and do not offer the comfort as new DSL routers do. ...

Update 2012-03-01: I just ordered 2 outdoor sensors and the plan is to connect the Klima-Logger to a Raspberry Pi Board to make the data available via browser on my home network. Here are some resources I found https://oss.inqnet.at/trac/klimalogger/ http://members.home.nl/xbasic/01c2249c770e62101/index.html http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc0670.pdf http://www.wetterstationsforum.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7605&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=472299c23b04447cc15aa92492c4a76f http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e9725348/Projects/klimalogger/ Outdated: I recently bought a hygrometer from TFA-Dostmann, called Klima-Logger. It is the cheapest thermometer and hygrometer with PC connectivity I could find on the market. Unfortunately only a Windows software is provided to get the recorded values for temperature and humidity. I thought a Linux driver would be cool and started searching for resources on the net. Usually the Linux community is very fast in supporting new gadgets of any kind, but nothing could be found. ...