From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 01:17:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C891065672 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2A78FC08 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6479 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2010 01:17:35 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Feb 2010 01:17:34 -0000 Message-ID: <4B70B7B3.4040202@telenix.org> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:17:39 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <4B5BB3F3.1070205@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B600F50.1060204@gmail.com> <20100127104652.GJ12145@comcast.net> <201002080322.39576.motoom@xs4all.nl> <20100208035055.GA5103@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20100208035055.GA5103@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: I Love FreeBSD! X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:17:35 -0000 Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 07 Feb 2010 at 18:22:39 PST Michiel Overtoom wrote: >> On Wednesday 27 January 2010 11:46:52 Charlie Kester wrote: >> >>> Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but it's probably the most fun! >> >> I measured the power consumption of my FreeBSD system, and it's 80 >> watts usually, 100 watts while doing a large compile. > > I recently installed FreeBSD on a system based on Intel's latest Atom > processor -- the so-called "Mount Olive" motherboard. According to my > Kill-a-Watt meter, it maxes out at 25W. > It's cheap (~$80 for the motherboard) and definitely a lot of fun, but > not much good as a space heater. Good thing I live in the Pacific > Northwest, where we enjoy such a mild climate! I got curious about 2 weeks ago, and went to the Intel web site to find out about that. I saw a page what was obviously written by a marketing man, spent a lot of time reading how great it was, but couldn't find one word on how it worked or looked, logically, so I assumed it was a glorious piece of incompatible junk. Am I tremendously wrong? I did see that it was a low power device. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"