RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/02/03 18:59 (GMT+0100) Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) composed:

> I previously wrote:

>> 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/

> I suppose you used the exact same system on each of them ? What was it ?

System, like turning them on and just going away? With half that was about it, doing no more than
going to a DOS or shell prompt or a boot loader menu. No power saving features were enabled beyond
a bash or Norton commander screen blanker. Some were running a GUI, but not with anything
substantial happening, no Gimping, OO, kernel compilations, or DVDs or music downloaded, burned or
played.

All those systems except the now dead T18 remain (multi) bootable. I'm writing this from the (space
heater) Foxconn.

I didn't tabulate installed memory, so what you see for the AI7 comparison needs an estimated
adjustment for the Celeron config having half the RAM of the Prescott config. The Dell I originally
did just to a DOS prompt, but the original result didn't meet my expectation, and I rebooted it
into WinXP and loaded Firefox to a passive page, then just left it, only to find a statistically
insignificant difference. None have or need active video cooling.

> That's an interesting measurement in any case :)

I figured some would reach such a conclusion. My main points were fairly recent stuff gobbles power
compared to pretty old yet still servicable stuff, and 80+ genuinely saves.
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