Submission + - Realtime Power Monitoring Options (Inexpensive)? 1

Submitted by tedpearson on Thursday September 23, 2010 @10:54PM

tedpearson writes: I've wanted for several months and/or years to be able to look at my electricity usage in a graphed form, both real-time and historical data. There seem to be a number of options for power monitoring in existence: some that hook into Google PowerMeter, others to Microsoft Hohm, and some that are standalone units. I've also seen DIY projects using Aruduinos for reading the data and sending it to a computer. But I haven't found anything that is quite what I'm looking for, and I am hoping the Slashdot community can give me some advice. What I'm looking for currently: Some sort of device(s) that a) accurately measures power usage, b) allows me to access the data for storage in a database for my own graphing/analysis purposes, c) will work with MacOS (doesn't require Windows), and d) doesn't cost more than $150 or so. I'm willing to DIY, though I don't understand circuit design which is keeping me from designing something myself.

Comment PC SP gaming (Score 2, Insightful) 1115

by perapuikkonen on Sunday July 11, 2010 @02:33AM (#32864826) Attached to: Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy?

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

A lot of gaming houses are moving away from PC as their primary platform for single player games as a direct consequence of piracy on the PC. Yes, there is pirated stuff for consoles as well but apparently not enough to hurt sales as much. And yes, PC versions of games are still going to be available. The thing is that the games are going to be designed first and foremost for consoles and more casual(read braindead) type of gaming.

Comment Linux solutions (Score 1) 136

by perapuikkonen on Sunday March 13, 2005 @03:37PM (#11927293) Attached to: Normalizing Music?

In case you happen to use Linux, there are a couple of solutions:
If using KDE, the ARTS soundserver comes with a stereo compressor. Just turn it on with artscontrol: use the environment tool to add an effect rack and then add the compressor there.
If KDE is not an option, there's also the jack daemon. jack-rack can be used to plug LADSPA effects into the signal path. Of course, the playback software you're using needs to be aware of the sound daemons. XMMS has output plugins for both arts and jack, and all the KDE apps should support arts. Others, YMMV.

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