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Just got mine delivered a few weeks ago with products from Bticino (http://www.bticino.com/).

They provide services such as:

  - Temperature adjustment (2 zones, from floor heating)
  - Light control (individual/all)
  - Window shutters control (individual/all)
  - Instant power readings (light and regular)
  - Power consumption graphs/stats
  - RJ45 plugs compatible with phone/internet with space reserved for your internet box
  - Heating/cooling scenarios
  - Reachable via smartphone app

As an unexpected bonus, all light switch have small LEDs embedded -- green when in use, orange when off. It makes it easier to find them in the complete dark.

So far it's been working quite well. You can easily monitor your power consumption patterns and adjust it to catch the high/low cost periods of the electricity provider.

MERDE !

... shutting down all domains that have a non-responsive/non-working abuse@ handler in their whois?

I'm tired of Korean/Chinese/Pakistanese/South America spam sources these days. Is there a way to get a rather complete list of IP blocks per country?

I do not have business with these countries, the net impact on my activities would be close to 0.

... but I keep my Firefox up and use hundreds of tabs/day (opening/closing),

In the end, the memory leaks of FF6.0.x just made me switch to Chrome. I would eventually plateau around 2.2GB of RAM (peak 2.5GB) with few tabs open, system crawling down to slow pace, *seconds* of waiting before a click makes FF react at all, Flash video pausing every 12s or so. PDF viewing freezing all tabs. Unusable.

I'll give FF7 a try though.It's "only" at 600MB right now (1GB peak) with the same usage pattern.

All the Data Centers I have been working at (USA and Singapore) had some kind of lounge/relaxing room with games, food vending machines, coffees, meeting rooms you can rent, showers, etc. Maybe they just forgot to mention it to their existing customers? Or maybe Equinix (not my company) is doing a better job at taking care of their customers? And they're still aiming at 30% yearly ROE, I can't see where a few dedicated rooms would hurt the bottom line so much.