[kj] FW: FW: FW: this is none of your business lennonka;D))

[The Exorcist]

>Well that explains where the free time came 

>from. waiting for the damn things to compile. :)

>

>Haha, correct. He was tending to do 16-20 hour 

>days most of the time he was working on that 

>project however, he stayed up for too many days 

>in a row once and sent off a pretty questionable 

>reply (i.e. a frothing rant) to mild criticism 

>on the yoper forum once, that ended up doing the rounds in Linux circles J

>

>How dare a hippy work at a supercomputing 

>center! Does he not know how much carbon emissions is caused by such places?

>I sense his inner hippy is not quite as robust as we thought it to be.

>

>That’s an interesting point, running computers 

>costs carbon, here’s some things to consider however:

>

>Computing and comms equipment enables email, IM, 

>BBS, websites, video conferencing, online 

>collaboration etc that reduces the need for 

>millions of miles of travel ever year

>

>The NZ supercomputing centre uses mainly AMD 

>Opteron processors, which require less power to 

>run than most equivalent Intel processors

>

>IT is probably trending long-term towards 

>massive data centres hosted locally that will to 

>some extent replace IT departments, meaning no 

>need to have a power hungry PC with a 350+ watt power supply on every desktop

>

>Datacentres are starting to be designed in a 

>much more electrically and thermally efficient 

>manner, for example the heat they put out can be 

>used to heat the building they are in, reducing 

>the overall need for power in the bldg etc



>

>The two main PC microchip manufacturers, Intel 

>and AMD, are constantly making their chips more 

>power efficient, a common trend is to cite 

>‘performance per watt’ for any given chip, which 

>of course is constantly increasing. Most chips / 

>chipsets these days have power-saving modes 

>where they will cycle down in speed when it’s 

>not required, as well as shutting down whole 

>areas of the chip, and PCs have power-saving 

>features such as standby mode, hibernation, 

>sleep, shutting down the hard disks, monitor etc etc

>

>Finally, computing enables research and 

>development in so many fields related to the 

>environment...weather modelling, population 

>modelling / stats, materials and energy 

>technology etc etc

LCD screens for example use 

>about half or less power than the old CRT screens for the same size




I agree with quite a bit of the above though (I 
have some interest in the tech field) and we can 
go on and on about that stuff. However...


>"Computing and comms equipment enables email, 

>IM, BBS, websites, video conferencing, online 

>collaboration etc that reduces the need for 

>millions of miles of travel ever year"



Depends...
Since most ppl. use MS products all that saved 
mileage gets wasted/spent on little dickhead 
geeksquad cars going around fixing pc's! :)

(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

Cheers,
Me 
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