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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:28:18AM -0400, [hidden email] wrote: > 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?
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