Hi John, Actually I'm in Texas (makes Jersy look like Paradise) and during oh what 9 months out of the year its hotter then hells kitchen (brown and ugly too). When I lived in New England electricity was a lot more expensive but leaving on the computer provided a little heat in the house and maybe hit my electric bill by $10 a month or so... not too bad. Down here during the long ass hot desert period its about a $50 hit (most of that is cooling). Not to mention you rapidly realize just how much heat a computer throws off (we wont even get into the space-heater monitor effects). In Europe electricity is pretty damn expensive so I imagine in even cooler climates they're seeing the same effective bill, if they're stuck near the mediteranian god help them.... I seem to recall A/C is a big luxury in which case they want the friggin thing off as much as possible.
I'm in the same boat. I've got a Server and then one front end that's on 24/7 for the last 2 years. I really notice the bills when I'm updating the systems (ie FC1 and Myth .17 breaking...ARGH!!!) and they're down for a week or two while I try to find time to fix the bloody thing. It usually has a significant impact on my electric bill. So I've thought about how to lower the energy usage. I believe the best soln for me is to build an Opteron based server (use the 240EE chip... only 30 watts of power) with a whole bunch of spin-down SATA drives and pipe the MythTV signal over RF into my TV's. That would significantly reduce my electric bill (probabably about $50-80/mo during the hot months... maybe only $10 or so during the winter months) Just a data point for those curious. -Chuck > 1. Re: Where is Jarod's guide to automatic > shutdown and restart? > (John Andersen) > 2. Re: Where is Jarod's guide to automatic > shutdown and restart? > (David Whyte) > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:26:46 -0900 > From: John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide > to automatic > shutdown and restart? > To: Discussion about mythtv > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:43, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 14 March 2005 04:21, Phill Edwards > wrote: > > > I went looking for this as nvram-wakeup's not > working for me any more > > > for some reason, and I remembered that Jarod > uses wake-on-lan from > > > another machine. > > > > I think you may have me confused with someone > else, I've never used WOL. > > All my boxes are just on 24x7. > > Often wondered about why people are so concerned > about WOL > for a myth box. Where is Electricity so expensive > that leaving it > on 24/7 is a problem? > > If you turn off the monitor you kill off 80% of the > electricity usage > anyway. > > I've metered boxes doing nothing. They draw squat. > Its harder on the machine being powered on and off > all the > time than it is to just leave it on. > > -- > ______Jsa_________ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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