Teofilo wrote:
> You have probably heard about CO2 and the conference being held these
> days in Copenhagen (1).
>
> You have probably heard about the goal of carbon neutrality at the
> Wikimania conference in Gdansk in July 2010 (2).
>
> You may want to discuss the basic and perhaps naive wishes
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:22 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/12/13 Teofilo :
>
>> But the best is to use no energy at all : see the OLPC project in
>> Afghanistan (A computer with pedals, like the sewing machines of our
>> great-great-great-grand-mothers) (1)
>> (1)
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/coun
Hi!
> In cold countries, energy can have two lives : a first life making
> calculations in a computer, or transforming matter (ore into metal,
> trees into books), and a second life heating homes.
One needs to build-out quite static-energy-output datacenters (e.g. deploy 10MW
at once, and don't
Dude, I need that strong stuff you're having.
> Let me sum this up, The basic optimization is this :
> You don't need to transfer that new article in every revision to all
> users at all times.
There's not much difference between transferring every revision and just some
'good' revisions.
> T
2009/12/13 Teofilo :
> But the best is to use no energy at all : see the OLPC project in
> Afghanistan (A computer with pedals, like the sewing machines of our
> great-great-great-grand-mothers) (1)
> (1)
> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/afghanistan/updates_from_olpc_afghanistan_1.html
That'
2009/12/13, Andre Engels :
> I don't think that's a practical solution. It's not because they need
> to be cooled that computers cost so much energy - rather the opposite:
> they use much energy, and because energy cannot be created or
> destroyed, this energy has to go out some way - and that way
2009/12/12, Geoffrey Plourde :
> With regards to Florida, if the servers are in an office building, one way to
> >decrease costs might be to reconfigure the environmental systems to use the
> >energy from the servers to heat/cool the building. Wikimedia would then be
> able >to recoup part of th
Let me sum this up, The basic optimization is this :
You don't need to transfer that new article in every revision to all
users at all times.
The central server could just say : this is the last revision that
has been released by the editors responsible for it, there are 100
edits in process and y
Hi!!!
> 1. Php is very hard to optimize.
No, PHP is much easier to optimize (read - performance oriented refactoring).
> 3. Even python is easier to optimize than php.
Python's main design idea is readability. What is readable, is easier to
refactor too, right? :)
> 4. The other questions a
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Saturday 12 December 2009 17:41:44 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com написа:
>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo wrote:
>> > Do we have an idea of the energy consumption related to the online
>> > access to a Wikipedia article
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo wrote:
> How about moving the servers (5) from Florida to a cold country
> (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Russia) so that they can be used to heat
> offices or homes ? It might not be unrealistic as one may read such
> things as "the solution was to provide nea
Дана Saturday 12 December 2009 17:41:44 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com написа:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo wrote:
> > Do we have an idea of the energy consumption related to the online
> > access to a Wikipedia article ? Some people say that a few minutes
> > long search on a search
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