[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:11:10PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:53:10 -0800
>Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Because, dear Pann, it is a new world.  You do it for the same reason
>> you forget to turn your dome light off in your car when you go in the
>> house, or for the same reason you neglect to turn off your stereo, or
>> the livingroom lamp when you leave the house.
>
>That's the reason devices are now coming with the capability to put
>themselves to sleep due to inactivity.  We need to continue this effort
>with Linux (great progress with gnome-power-manager) so that one
>doesn't have to /think/ about saving energy, it just happens as a
>natural course of events (or the lack thereof).

The biggest powersuck has largely gone the way of the dodo:  Monster CRTs.
My 20-inch Mitsubishi got stuffed in storage summer before last, replaced by
a 17-inch Viewsonic LCD that draws (well, flips it over and RTFL's) ok, it's
rated for 1.2 amps so, assuming 80% duty cycle, probably 120 watts, probably
1/3 or maybe even 1/4 of what the old glass behemoth did.  And they
powersave automagically.  

'course, then again, this only applies if you're not running one of those
monster NVIDIA or ATI cards that need their own auxiliary power just to run
the fan to try to keep it cool... that's the reason we need 4- and 500-watt
power supplies these days, just to drive the bloody GPU (which if it was the
right chipset, you could download Linux across the AGP bus... :) 

-- Glenn