whats a really good web based calendar app for someone looking to move away from google calendar
fruux
mike-burns: thanks, checking it out now
@weather yyz
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Chilly. And it hit 20C here today, just a few thousand km west.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mnathani/albums/72157666641285581\
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mnathani/albums/72157666641285581
here are some shots I took a few minutes ago
notice the snow accumulating
Oh that's so pretty
right untill you need to walk through it or drive
<-- works from home :P
no wonder you are on IRC all the time :-)
Seriously
All the same, I had my own dose of "ugh, not *more* snow" this winter. But Spring is, well, springing here.
when are you getting your symmetric fat internet pipe at home?
About 2 weeks (when I move)
My home working environment has gotten quieter this weekend. :D I have scripted my backups to power on/off + zpool import/export my Xserve RAID (FC disk shelf) so it's only running when it's needed.
brycec: will save power too :)
True, though that is frankly low on my priority list
power is cheap, etc
brycec: true, but to me it seems like a tax :)
it's kind of like paying bank charges.
it may not be that high in the big scheme of things, but it just doesn't seem a nice place to spend money ;)
I'm much more concerned about personal comfort - noise, heat, whatnot.
heh i don't use any hard-disks normally in my main room
I don't object to paying an electric bill. A service was performed, I benefited from it. Why wouldn't I pay?
and now even one sounds noisy
well it's more about conserving power
or not using excessive power
Heh in winter I am less concerned about power from servers because less heating
But to my mind saving 100 watts over 24 hours seems significant
a fc disk array probably uses more than that
it's probably only $40/year or something though.
err more like $180/year
hmm, california is cheaper for power than new zealand.
(not that I pay CA's relatively high power rates)
heh
california is cheap
yeh lots of the US seems cheaper than california
(for both power supplies jointly) Standby: 27W Peak: 450W when powering on. Idle: 238W
that's for redundant PSU, redundant fans, redundant controllers, and 14 IDE drives
any idea what your unit cost for power is like?
It's tiered. First 800kWh is billed at $0.07676/kWh. 801-1500 is billed at $0.08773/kWh
wow!
that's cheap :)
Last month I used 995kWh for a bill of about $88 (after city tax etc)
damn
would use less than 800kwh a month here
So you can understand why power consumption is nowhere near top of my list :p Plus it's been winter...
yeah i get yah
So 250W at 30d*24h is 180kWh
or $13/mo
yeah
Granted that's nearly 15% of my bill for one damn machine... but not bad overall.
wheeas here it's more $35 to $40/month
in USD
of something which doesn't need to be there :)
If it only runs about an hour a day, that drops it to 7.5kWh/mo, or $0.57/month
A 95% reduction :)
yes
although then you'll hear it turn on/off
Not that it would bother me
i suppose you also don't care about phantom power?
Is that something that bothers people?
err is that the name
power usage of idle appliacnes
like some microwaves use 5 watts when they're turned off
Oh right I forgot to factor in its standby draw of 27W
27watts standby is quite high actually
Agreed
but still less than runtime draw :p
but you'd need to use some kind of device to turn on/off otherwise
and if power is so cheap..
18.63kWh+7.5kWh if including standby in my maths
annoying thing about fc disks is you can't usually just put them in a normal machine
eh? These are pretty normal IDE disks
oh real
really
Just an Xserve RAID
ahh xserve raid just exports via FC?
Yes
i played with FC a little with opensolaris
opensolaris can act as a fc host.
so you can do fc client to them
dunno if that's the right terms.
Drive sled/caddy http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Nzc0WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16RHJGQE9noM,BV-BQ9(pFVYe!~~60_12.JPG?set_id=880000500F
interesting
i like to try to not have too much data
makes backups easier :)
I use my array for storing backups :P
brycec: why IDE as opposed to SATA disks
mnathani_: you'd have to ask Apple, mate.
fc is old
I didn't design the thing :p
fc as in fiber channel?
yeah
Fibre channel, yeah
the old 2/4gigabit stuff
(there's faster FC nowadays too)
8gigabit?
or over 10?
Oh yeah, rather old indeed. This unit itself is from 2004 I think.
fc seemed kind of cool
mercutio: 8 and 16
(yep confirmed, this unit is from 2004)
heh
so yeah that's why idee
damn so are your disks from 2004 too?
Right, it's 12 years old :P
mercutio: Some of them, others newer
Youngest disk is probably from 2008 I'd guess
i'd be tempted to just make a new raid array with current disk s:)
5tb disks aren't that expensive etc
Sure but they don't come in IDE, with an excuse to use this massive thing :P
you want an excuse to use it?
I like old tech, duh.
heh
use a sparc with scsi disks then :)
Like I said, it's nearline storage for backups, stuff that eventually gets uploaded to S3 (currently). I don't need much, and I don't need it to last (though it has remarkably)
My sparc machine has IDE actually, but my powermacs and IIgs use SCSI :p
yeah lots of old tech lasts real well
is a sun fire v245 any good?
Four DIMM slots per processor, registered DDR-1 SDRAM
ddr1 haha
eg Sunblade 150 and its DIMM modules
i had a sparc 1 before
I used to have some stuff that used SIMMs but I'm pretty sure I junked it
it booted so damn slow
generating ssh keys took forever
and scrolling was ick
loading X was hard on it too
i think it only had 8mb of ram
(oh right, my old 486 laptop uses SIMMs, but it doesn't seem to work anymore)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-SPARC-Enterprise-T5220-UltraSparc-T2-32GB-RAM-4x-146GB-DVD-Server-Untested-/281892793721?hash=item41a21ead79:g:Yd4AAOSwSdZWevHj
that'd be kind of fun
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-MicroSystem-Sparc-Enterprise-T5220-Ultrasparc-T2-8-Cores-1-20GHz-32GB-RAM/172148576968?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D36331%26meid%3Dcf6dff489aaa44648f063955c3a6cbba%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D281892793721
there's possibly cheaper ones with huge shipping costs to nz :)
"Less than 80 dBA sound power in ambient temperature of up to 24?? C, measured on a standalone system to ISO 9296 requirements"
less than 70 dbA would still be disconcerting..
Nice!
That would've netted you a $17 electric bill where I live
brycec: no daily charges?
mercutio: Just a monthly account fee $8/mo and city tax
nice
monthly account fee is like daily charges though. at least it's low :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3167967/screenshot_2016-04-04_14-53-29.png
my normal bill is just over $90 USD i think.
@exch 89 USD NZD
89 USD -> 130.181724 NZD (as of Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:00:09 -0700)
oh ok
it's more like $140 NZD
that i was thinking
@exch 140 NZD USD
140 NZD -> 95.71235974721 USD (as of Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:00:09 -0700)
but i'm more moderate with my power usage it seems :)
and it's higher in winter
last bill was $155.08
@exch 155.08 nzd usd
155.08 NZD -> 106.02194821141 USD (as of Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:00:09 -0700)
that's for 577 units
power costs more in winter too
that puts average unit cost at 0.268c/kwh
damn how did dne use so little power :)
I live in an apartment building, power is included in my rent
I haven't seen a place include power with the rent since the dorms in college
apartments including power does seem strange
in some situations where people get power included it's just because they can't meter it
i live in an apartment with water+electricity included as well, it used to be common here especially in older buildings
most new contracts/agreements are not like that, and are metered
yea, heat+water+electricity and most maintenance as well all included
i don't get paying for water
it seems silly to me
we're paying for water here
but it varies by city
mercutio: small apartment, with gas stove :)
gas hot water too?
nah, hot/cold water, heating etc is included in "rent"
ahh
(housing cooperative so not really rent, but "monthly fee for shared stuff")
ahh yip
is it some kind of central heating?
district heating even