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I have been on a power savings hunt. Besides trying to be more green, I have been checking stuff with a "Watts Up?" monitor and have been getting pretty pissed off at power usage. The biggest offenders are wall warts and power supplies. These things are always on and while a good number of them barely use anything, a lot more of them use crazy power. For reference, at my billing rate for electricity, a 1 watt drain that's left on 24/7/365 is about $1.50 a year. I added a switch bar for all my monitors and printers, which even if "off" still use power. I have been thinking about eliminating a separate Linux computer (119 watts or about $180 a year) with a second NIC in my regular computer and run all that stuff locally. The problem is that I like having a separate firewall system because I "feel" safer, and in fact I am provably safer, but am I $180 safer in real terms? Thoughts? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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