We should clear it up with the owner before the next meeting, make sure that there will be no objections *after* we get there. It should be quite simple: we need electricity and wireless and we will go to whichever venue offers them to us, and buy our coffee, soft drinks and baguettes from whoever it is.
Ramon Casha 2008/6/21 James Attard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > actually, for an avg. laptop, 100 watts is a maximum, but because of heat > losses, we can assume that power consumption value. of course, in reality, > enemalta's electricity cost is not really linear (you can't actually use > simple proportion to calculate the total cost), but if your arithmetic is > right, since eur0.23 is small, it should be quite within those lines. by the > way, that's why beer costs more at irrera, so you can use their 'facilities' > ;) > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't think the post is off topic since power at our next meeting is >> definitely a nice thing to have. If your rates are correct, I will give them >> an offer and we can pool that in a kitty. >> >> Oh and btw, some things weren't paid for. Please pay up Philip or I >> believe he will beat someone up. I believe there was an Espresso, a fizzy >> drink and some other stuff. I don't want to be in bad books of the Irrera's >> owner. >> >> -- >> Raphael >> >> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Cachia < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Was just calculating something for next time we are at Irrera and I >>> wanted to get some feedback if my assumptions are correct: >>> >>> I am assuming that 100 watts would be a generous average power >>> consumption for a laptop, and that the commercial rate per unit of >>> electricity is 5.5c (Maltese) >>> >>> So 0.1kWH x Lm 0.055 = Lm 0.0055 per hour per laptop or Eu 0.0128. >>> >>> I believe there were 6 laptops at today's meeting, and we were there for >>> about 3 hours, so that would make a total of Eu 0.23 we would have owed >>> Irrera right? >>> >>> I say this because of the issue they seemed to make out of us plugging in >>> today. Anybody into physics out there able to tell me if my calculation is >>> right or wrong? >>> >>> >>> Sorry if the post is kind of off topic. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MLUG-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > > > -- > James Attard > http://www.madvip.net > http://www.jamesattard.com > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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