On 06/17/2014 08:42 AM, lynn wrote:
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 15:49 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-15 14:32, Anton Aylward wrote:
I have a 800MHz single core with 1G of memory under my desk running as DHCP/DNS + LDAP/Radius authenticator and a 30G drive. This is an old desktop from a decade or more ago that once ran W/98 for some primitive office functions.
I use an old laptop, with an external hard disk. I use it mainly for downloading things, which with my slow network can take days. An old laptop needs little electricity and little table space, and comes complete with keyboard and display ;-)
We often overlook the power consumption aspects of reusing old computers. '...old desktop from a decade [...] ago...' Maybe should be written, 'inefficient, hot and expensive to run'. The amount you'd spend by replacing it with something environmentally friendly is soon recovered. L x
Actually, no, it isn't soon recovered. Decade ago (2004) machines still had sleep mode, Energy Star, (and EU equivalent), auto-scaling of processor speed, disk sleep, etc. A decade ago we were already running Core 2 Duo, and Celerons, and they were pretty good as far as energy usage. You have to go back to the 486 days to find machines that are truely expensive to run, and nobody is going to be doing any serious work on that processor unless it is sitting in a corner running headless. Once you get rid of the monitor (crt) and run headless or with a LED panel you really do have a pretty energy efficient machine. The cost of junking it and buying something new will never be recovered, not on your power bill, and certainly not when you factor in the total costs of production, shipping, recycling, (ewaste) etc. -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org