[ale] OT: Calculating PC power consumption

[James P. Kinney III]

>From ThinkGeek:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7657/


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 10:54 -0400, Alan Stewart wrote:
> I saw a gadget in the AJC within the last week that acts as a power 
> meter. I think it may have been in the Buyer's Edge section.
> 
> John Wells wrote:
> 
> >Gentlemen,
> >
> >On my home DSL, I have roughly four boxes running at any give time: a
> >firewall/router, a DNS server, a web server, and a wireless VPN router.
> >
> >I'd like to get a rough idea of how much these servers (particularly the
> >web server and dns server) cost me in $$ from power consumption on a
> >monthly basis.  I can't imagine it's overwhelming, but it'd still be nice
> >to know.
> >
> >Anyone tried doing this before?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John
> >
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