I can't afford DC!

[kloostec]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I never realised you were a fellow canuck. where are you?

I'm on Vancouver Island.

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Are you running the monitors?

The PC's don't use up that much power. For example older AMD's like a 20 watt light bulb, the new Bartons run at 160 watts.

How many machines was that? 3 ?

Hope your bill drops back down. If it does then you must be paying an incrdiblely high per Kilowatt charge.

I'm running one LCD panel with a KVM. My computers are beasts, which is why they consume so much power... one's a 2700+... the two laptops don't consume much, but the duron 800 has 4 hard drives in it... I stuck UD on the guy I live with's 1600+ too, so that's also taking a lot of power. I figure the computers consume about 500-600 watts (720-864 KWh over two months) continually when they're on and doing DC.

Kenazo: I just sold another 2500+... That should make up for some of the work lost

 

[Kenazo]

I need to get my sales-butt in gear again. Most of mine are running on sold computers too.

 

[Supermercado]

I hope my recent joining of TA DPAD doesn't increase our power bill a whole lot. It's $100 for 3 1/4 people (four total, but one is hardly ever here). I was talking to that roommate that's hardly ever here and whose name the power is in and he said we use something like 2.2MWh/month. Isn't that... a lot? Heh. I guess that's what you get when you get two CS majors and a CompE major in one apartment, hehe.

 

[MDE]

Try consolidating your stuff onto as few drives as possible and possibly sell off the slower CPUs and use a couple of really fast processors. I'm so happy I live at home...

 

[kloostec]

Test server (onsite) drive layout: 2x 80 GB (raid 1), 2x 120 GB (raid 1). 120 GB for data and os, important data backed up onto the 80 GB backup raid. Backup data from production server (offsite) also backed up to 80 GB backup raid. Really important data (cvs tree) from test server also sent to production server.

My cvs tree is stored on 8 hard drives (4 in test server, 2 on production server, workstation, and laptop), plus there's periodical optical backups. I don't trust hard drives, as you might have gathered. I hate losing data!

I can't really reorg because of lack of money... Plus I like the level of redundancy I've got

2.2 MHh is a lot for a month, but that depends on whether you have electric heat, and where you live (ie how much your heat's on). Computers will draw quite a lot, too... there's 7 in this apartment

 

[dnuggett]

I already spend around $180 a week on fuel (and climbing with the rising fuel prices) for my little dakota.

At gas around $1.56 a gallon and average of 15mpg that's 1730 miles a week. You do that much driving? Damn thats almost 90k in 1 year!!

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

I already spend around $180 a week on fuel (and climbing with the rising fuel prices) for my little dakota.

At gas around $1.56 a gallon and average of 15mpg that's 1730 miles a week. You do that much driving? Damn thats almost 90k in 1 year!!

maybe he idles a lot. gotta get the truck warm on these cold winter days

 

[dnuggett]

maybe he idles a lot. gotta get the truck warm on these cold winter days

Idling doesn't use much gas. Besides there aren't really cold winter days here in Texas.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

gas is at $1.63-$1.69 right now, at least in north texas. (at least it was yesterday), and I get about 15-17 miles a gallon. (I drive 75 a lot and it really drops my economy) I drive any where from 1200-1650 miles a week (lately it's been around 1500) on my dakota, forgot that total I spend per week also includes my wife's once a week fill up of about $25-30 on her cherokee.

fuel prices are too d@sm hi.

edit: I don't have time to idle and I put 64k on my truck last year (it was a slow year)

 

[NicColt]

In canada %52 of the cost of gas is in taxes and add GST on top of that so the more the price goes up the more you pay in taxes for the fuel and the Govt. aint crazy..... they like it that way. The main reason why gas is expensive is because the major refineries are deliberately keeping their stocks low because the higher the demand the higher the profits. They don't want to keep a high inventory which would lead to higher competition and lower gas prices and lower profits. Plain and Simple. There is no such thing as a 'gas shortage' but there is an abundance of idiots at the helm of the hydro, oil and gas industries.

think of it this way and in all things, shortage is Good and specially in the Energy Industry.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

maybe he idles a lot. gotta get the truck warm on these cold winter days

Idling doesn't use much gas. Besides there aren't really cold winter days here in Texas.

As I stare out at the snow that is still falling. sigh.

 

[DanC]

As I stare out at the snow that is still falling. sigh

Dood... My most sincere, most heartfelt sympathies go out to you.

You need some herb, a good movie, some munchies. All will be right with the world.

If Valentines day has come... can SPRING be far behind? Nope.
Take heart -- it's about to break -- then... there's FISHING!!!!

 

[NicColt]

>You need some herb

LOL

 

[GunDog]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gas is at $1.63-$1.69 right now, at least in north texas. (at least it was yesterday), and I get about 15-17 miles a gallon. (I drive 75 a lot and it really drops my economy) I drive any where from 1200-1650 miles a week (lately it's been around 1500) on my dakota, forgot that total I spend per week also includes my wife's once a week fill up of about $25-30 on her cherokee.

fuel prices are too d@sm hi.

edit: I don't have time to idle and I put 64k on my truck last year (it was a slow year)

I paid $2.07 for regular today Avg price in cal is $2.18 for reg :|

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Leave it at your parents home if all it does is crunch SETI WU's

 

[CyGoR]

Do I hear you people complain about fuel prices??? :Q:Q
There is nowhere on this planet where you pay as much as here in The Netherlands..
How much liters is a gallon? 4.4 wasn't it?
Well, we pay (just checked it) ?1.174 for a liter.. With the current euro to $ rate, that's
exactly $1.46 for 1 (one) liter.. When I was right about a gallon that should make
$6.41 for 1 gallon..

Welcome to The Netherlands! :s

 

[Shame]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
Do I hear you people complain about fuel prices??? :Q:Q There is nowhere on this planet where you pay as much as here in The Netherlands.. How much liters is a gallon? 4.4 wasn't it? Well, we pay (just checked it) ?1.174 for a liter.. With the current euro to $ rate, that's exactly $1.46 for 1 (one) liter.. When I was right about a gallon that should make $6.41 for 1 gallon.. Welcome to The Netherlands! :s

I can get rocket fuel cheaper than that!

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
Do I hear you people complain about fuel prices??? :Q:Q
There is nowhere on this planet where you pay as much as here in The Netherlands..
How much liters is a gallon? 4.4 wasn't it?
Well, we pay (just checked it) ?1.174 for a liter.. With the current euro to $ rate, that's
exactly $1.46 for 1 (one) liter.. When I was right about a gallon that should make
$6.41 for 1 gallon..

Welcome to The Netherlands! :s

ouch, I'd be driving a hybred vehicle for sure over there....either that or a bicycle.

In reguards to the high electrice bills, We should get our heads together for some wind energy thoughts. I've found a lot of information on the internet, but it's mostly people selling thier generators, I haven't found much in the way of wiring schematics for the hook up into ones house.

 

[CyGoR]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong


ouch, I'd be driving a hybred vehicle for sure over there....either that or a bicycle.

Well, I do thing that our cars run on less fuel then overseas.. Our 160Bhp car uses 7.5 liters for 100Km.
That's 1:13.3 (1 liter for 13.3Km) which is 1liter for 8.3 miles.. Which is 1:36.7 (one gallon for 36.7miles )
We usually don't use big V8 engines over here.. Lots of 4 cilinder engines (with or without turbo's..) I once
drove a Saab 95 Aero which has a 2.3 turbo 5 cilinder engine with over 250BHp

Wind power, sounds very expensive!! What kind of money are we talking about for just the equiptment?

 

[wischeez]

Go here for instructions on wind power>>>>wind power

Maybe that will help.....

 

[ericlp]

Solar... Better bang for the buck!

Link

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: ericlp
Solar... Better bang for the buck!

Link

depends on where you live wind power in my area(north texas) produces nearly 6 times more power per $ than solar.