Archive for May, 2009
Miserware details
In an update to the [http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/05/20/start-ups/ miserware] post, I’ve been kindly informed that I can reveal the details to you, so here are the stats. These numbers are solely from CPU savings – they exclude savings from power supplies, fans etc. {|border=1 !Server ! Energy Saved ! Energy Consumed ! % CPU Saved |- |Core2 [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2009 under Linux.
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Startups
For the past few months I’ve been assisting a friend (hi Mat!) who has been working at a young startup company in America. The company is called [http://miserware.com/ Miserware] and they have some neat software which uses various techniques (including the usual Speedstep etc) in order to reduce the power consumption of your computer. Yes, [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2009 under Linux.
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I often think that Java has the worst case of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here NIH ] syndrome I’ve ever seen. At other times it’s due to the way it chooses to do things. However that’s little excuse in my opinion – “so don’t do that then” is one possible answer. “Think of the children” (or rather “think of [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2009 under Linux, Linux Rants.
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