Your feedback is much appreciated

[ramonsagullo at yahoo.com]

Hello, Gavin.


----- Original Message ----
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>

>You could very easily have all of your thin clients shut themselves down at
>9pm.  You could also check if your thin clients have "Wake On LAN" in their
>BIOS.  If they do, you could have a script power them all back up at 7am on
>weekdays.  Whether this will save much energy is not clear but one would
>hope so.

The above information is quite exciting in simplifying my life :-)  Thank you.

>Yes and as you gain the expertise you should stick around on the list and
>help pass it on to other new people.

It is the least that I could do :-) Information when shared is knowledge; knowledge unshared is garbage, right? :-)

>> The Board of Trustees got to appreciate the savings on power consumption
>> after I gave then a chart of how much the school will save, using a
>> 60-unit computers for comparison - CRT vs LCD.

>Would you give us access to this data please?  It would be interesting to
>plug our cost per kwhr and see how it stacks up.

But of course:

Typical - 

15inch CRT  80watts
15inch LCD  36watts

Difference: 44 watts X 120 units = 5,280 watts
8hrs a day = 42,240 watts
200school days = 8,448,000
Kilo watt = 84,480 X Php 8.00/kilo watt
Php 645,840.00 a year

Of course this figures are on the assumption that the CRT and the LCD are at peak usage. And "self-serving" interest to convince the Board to go for LCD, costing 45% more than a CRT of similar size.  45% more of a one-time purchase cost, but it quickly adds up in cost saving in power, and the relative longer life-use of an LCD vs CRT.

>I haven't been clear enough here.  As I understand it (you should check),
>pretty much all of the new 64-bit cpus are capable of running in 32-bit
>mode.  So, I suggest you run 32-bit edubuntu on the same 64-bit machine.
>Then, when all works well and opportunity arises, you can just reinstall
>with 64-bit edubuntu.  So, this point shouldn't really affect your choice
>of hardware at all.

Well taken and much appreciated, Gavin. Yup, I guess it is rare when to have "too much" processing power when it comes to server.

>> I am also coordinating with our local government in rolling out Edubutu
>> boxes for the out-of school youth IT program.

>Very cool.  Do you mind if I ask where this is?

about 600++ kbits/sec if you'd ping me on a good day :-) A small town in the province of Quezon, Republic of the Philippines :-)

>>Our present Board of Trustees come from a generation before PC was invented :-)

>Doesn't everyone's?

:-) I just hope that in a very *few short* years when I reach my "golden" age, I will have the open-mindedness and humility to say, "find the minimize the cost, but do what is best for the students." :-)

Mon






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