From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 07:10:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6574416A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E71AE43D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:10:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 87922 invoked by uid 0); 16 Nov 2005 07:10:50 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 07:10:50 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAG6wKe4001076; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:58:20 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <437AD88C.8020504@alphaque.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:58:20 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20051026 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Vince , Peter Clutton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:10:58 -0000 On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: > Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go? It > is turned into heat. Which heats your house. Which means you do > not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there. that's a very geocentric view. for most of us who live in the tropics or on the equator where the ambient temperature is 31degC, the wasted power is really wasted twice: once from the PC, and once more thru higher airconditioning/cooling devices. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+