RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/02/02 20:52 (GMT-0800) Jesse Keating composed:

> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:53 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> If you really wanted to save serious power, you'd stop inducing or forcing
>> people with less power hungry old systems (i586 ring a bell?) to replace them
>> with considerably hungrier newer systems. New systems make much better room
>> heaters than old systems, because they use a lot more power, far more than
>> one extra watt. Support for old systems == really substantial conservation.

> Isn't it odd then, that each new system I buy happens to use lower power
> over time than previous systems?

How did you measure? Did you measure?

My measurements using Seasonic PowerAngel SSM-1508RA:
Description			  Speed	Mfg	 Model	Minutes	 KWH	Rate
PC w/ 2 HD                          450 Mac      G3         221  0.18   1.1729
PC, PIII, 133FSB, 2 IDE HD         1133 Dell     GX150      168  0.15   1.2857
PC, K6-III 66FSB, 2 SCSI HD, 1 IDE  400 AOpen    AX5T-3    1544  1.47   1.3710
PC, K6-III+ 100FSB, 3 SCSI HD       550 Asus     P5S-B      553  0.73   1.9009
PC, P4-478 400FSB, 1 HD, 80+ PS    3000 Abit     AI7       1424  1.94   1.9618
PC, Celeron478 400FSB, 1 HD        2400 Abit     AI7        600  0.87   2.0880
PC, Socket A 333FSB, 1 HD, std PS  2000 Biostar  M7NCD      120  0.20   2.4000
PC, P4-775 533FSB, 1+1 HD, 80+ PS  2800 PCChips  T18       7200 12.06   2.4120
PC, P4-775 533FSB, 1+1 HD          2800 PCChips  T18        691  1.30   2.7091
PC, P4-775 800FSB, 1+1 HD, 80+ PS  3400 Foxconn  F9657AB    617  1.42   3.3141

80+ is described at http://www.80plus.org/
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