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Submission + - Building an energy efficient always-on PC?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Like many Slashdotters, I find it necessary to leave my home PC running 24/7, for things like web or ftp servers, bittorrent, or simply to make sure I don't miss any messages on IRC or my instant messaging client. It has been about 3 years since I built my current PC, and keeping it running all the time uses a lot of juice. With my next PC I would like to do what I can to keep the power-consumption to a minimum, without sacrificing processing power or other features. What should I look for when choosing components for my PC, and what other ways are there to keep the power consumption down?

Feed How About a Mouse and Keyboard to Go With That Vista? (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:12PM

The Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 combines a Bluetooth keyboard a rechargeable mouse.

The World's First National Internet Election 297

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:04PM from the vote-through-the-tubes dept.

InternetVoting writes "Expanding on the limited 2005 Internet voting pilot successes, the small European nation of Estonia will become the first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet. Fresh off the news of France's successful primary election using Internet voting and the announcement of 12 new UK election pilots, is Europe leaving the U.S. behind?"

Submission + - Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @08:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: This article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/m oney/2007/02/19/ccview19.xml lite on technical details, argues that solar power may be cheaper than fossil fuels in 5 to 10 years thanks to new materials that are significantly lighter and easier to produce than traditional solar panels

Submission + - Linux.com | ESR gives up on Fedora

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on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @08:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system unusable. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/13402 37

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