On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Mort wrote: >> In the interest of cheapness, you might want to look at the power >> supply and consider what exactly you can do with this box and how much >> it will cost you to run it in the long run in terms of energy use. > Thanks, John! I hadn't considered that. Let's see... my Kill-A-Watt > gadget measures 109W (not VA) for the system unit and CRT monitor > together... my last electric bill was $0.14509/kWh (plus a flat fee)... > that's about 38 cents a day, or $23 extra on each bimonthly electric > bill. Hmm... what could I do that would be exciting enough to be worth > that much? > > Adam
Assuming you're using the term bimonthly in the publishing sense, we're talking $11.50/month, if you could find or make a way to display the weather, then a machine like this could be set up somewhere convenient for your morning routine but out of the way and display the weather full screen. This would work even better if the BIOS enables the machine to start itself in the morning. You could set it to turn itself on shortly before you wake up, and turn itself off shortly after you're normally out the door, and save a lot of power that way, while being able to know what the weather is like without having to do anything extra in the morning. Definitely more useful during the winter, this is something I'm planning on doing myself someday with an old laptop if I can ever get my hands on a 15" LCD for cheap. I'd be willing to pay a couple bucks a month in power for something that did this because I never remember to check the weather in the morning, even in the winter, and I have suffered many times for it. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
