Hello, Gavin.
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From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>You could very easily have all of your thin clients shut themselves down at
>9pm. You could also check if your thin clients have "Wake On LAN" in their
>BIOS. If they do, you could have a script power them all back up at 7am on
>weekdays. Whether this will save much energy is not clear but one would
>hope so.
The above information is quite exciting in simplifying my life :-) Thank you.
>Yes and as you gain the expertise you should stick around on the list and
>help pass it on to other new people.
It is the least that I could do :-) Information when shared is knowledge;
knowledge unshared is garbage, right? :-)
>> The Board of Trustees got to appreciate the savings on power consumption
>> after I gave then a chart of how much the school will save, using a
>> 60-unit computers for comparison - CRT vs LCD.
>Would you give us access to this data please? It would be interesting to
>plug our cost per kwhr and see how it stacks up.
But of course:
Typical -
15inch CRT 80watts
15inch LCD 36watts
Difference: 44 watts X 120 units = 5,280 watts
8hrs a day = 42,240 watts
200school days = 8,448,000
Kilo watt = 84,480 X Php 8.00/kilo watt
Php 645,840.00 a year
Of course this figures are on the assumption that the CRT and the LCD are at
peak usage. And "self-serving" interest to convince the Board to go for LCD,
costing 45% more than a CRT of similar size. 45% more of a one-time purchase
cost, but it quickly adds up in cost saving in power, and the relative longer
life-use of an LCD vs CRT.
>I haven't been clear enough here. As I understand it (you should check),
>pretty much all of the new 64-bit cpus are capable of running in 32-bit
>mode. So, I suggest you run 32-bit edubuntu on the same 64-bit machine.
>Then, when all works well and opportunity arises, you can just reinstall
>with 64-bit edubuntu. So, this point shouldn't really affect your choice
>of hardware at all.
Well taken and much appreciated, Gavin. Yup, I guess it is rare when to have
"too much" processing power when it comes to server.
>> I am also coordinating with our local government in rolling out Edubutu
>> boxes for the out-of school youth IT program.
>Very cool. Do you mind if I ask where this is?
about 600++ kbits/sec if you'd ping me on a good day :-) A small town in the
province of Quezon, Republic of the Philippines :-)
>>Our present Board of Trustees come from a generation before PC was invented
>>:-)
>Doesn't everyone's?
:-) I just hope that in a very *few short* years when I reach my "golden" age,
I will have the open-mindedness and humility to say, "find the minimize the
cost, but do what is best for the students." :-)
Mon
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