Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:23 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [...big snip...] if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:10 -0400, Carl Chave wrote: Hi Gary, Just a couple of thoughts, as your setup sounds similar to mine (and a lot of others' I'm sure) - I too recently decided to make a concerted effort to reduce power consumption. I just re-did my file server with FreeNAS and even

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Vande More
(But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word for it.

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:47:11AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: (But if a dual or a quad sucks up too many watts, that blows much of the original purpose of cutting my footprint. Newer cpu's(multicore vs single) are pretty efficient, here's an article so you don't have to take my word

from very early this morning...

2009-04-14 Thread Gary Kline
I'm enclosing most of what I wrote late last night; essentially a request for how to restrucure my network so that it is easily to maintain and uses much less energy. --I sent a few emails from a different platform where I have mutt. Don't know why this did not get out; it was in my

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: [...big snip...] if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this far. gary It might be simplest to replace my

Re: from very early this morning...

2009-04-14 Thread Carl Chave
Hi Gary, Just a couple of thoughts, as your setup sounds similar to mine (and a lot of others' I'm sure) - I too recently decided to make a concerted effort to reduce power consumption.  I just re-did my file server with FreeNAS and even though I've got tons of hardware laying around I decided to