Run Multiple cirruct for basic Power Manufacturing - Conditioned power for high power electronics - basic power for lights, blowers, vacuum cleaner and utility used. Offices - Central hard wired UPS to all desk for PC only. Conditioned line for printers and other electronics. Utility power (can be conditioned or not) for lights, cleaning and such. Network CAT 6 wire within Building: Can be run beside or together with Telephone wire (if not going for IP phones) use SAME Cat 6 wire - different colors (we used BLUE for Data/network and GREY for Telephone - Network A and Network B) . Make sure you run copper and fiber to to building (even if fiber is not yet available). Use Wiring Trays for any wire over 10 to all area in building (easy to ADD more cables at a later time that way). EMT Conduit or other wiring channels for any runs with 10 or less. Single drops (telephone and data wire - within walls) don't need conduit - but suggested. All Surface mount in Manufacturing area should be conduited or use SHELDED wire. All should be terminated on all ends with a female jack attached to a hard surface. Router/Switch should be POE Plus - Power Over Ethernet Plus standard - so you can install Wireless points of access without running power. Or for IP video security Cameras etc.... Install about 25% more runs that you think you need. Switch/Router/termination points - should be over-sized by 50% to 100% Just my 2 cents.....

Connected 4 to 16 USB Keyboards (optionally mice as well) and connect same amount of monitors to a few video cards like: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9188pciex16/ or http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firemv-2d/ati-firepro-2450-mv/Pages/ati-firepro-2450-mv.aspx or USB to Video.... http://ca.startech.com/AV/USB-Video-Adapters/USB-DVI-External-Multi-Monitor-Video-Adapter~USB2DVIE2 There is software out here to create virtual machines for each monitor and to connect a set of Keyboard/mouse to each monitor. With Windows 98, you can connect up to 9 displays. With Windows NT, you can connect up to 20 displays to one system With Windows 2000, XP, you can connect up to 10 displays to one system. With Window Vista - you can connect minimum of 10 displays to one system. - possibly up to 16 With Windows 7 & 8, you can connect up to 16 displays to one system -possibly more

I agree - Terminal like Wyse can be had 2nd hand - quite cheap (if you can find them). They are also not drawing too much power. Use in off line mode as is and you got it... Optionally - Get stats and remote control ablity - use a USB serial or muitlport serial and cheap wire to connect all of them to a main PC.

Yes I have a many points of my life used Calculus and Discrete and Dynamic and other types of math and related theories. Luckly I don't have to crunch the numbers (or show all the steps) like in university as I write programs to do that. I do use math in programming - manually figuring out things on paper and/or in excel and/or other programs. Often thing are complex at first - write a function to work with the problem to derive the answer - then reuse that function or modify it for similar problems. Short answer - you need to KNOW how to do calculus - you may or may not have to actually perform it like you did in highschool/collage/university and may never crunch it like that..... but when given a set of data - you know how to formulate the equation and when given the answer - you should UNDERSTAND if that is correct or out in left field and totally is wrong!

Sent this to the Author:

Just read "Blackle vs. Google Monitor Power Consumption Tested".

Compared the worst and best (for LCD - who still used CRT??) is about 4w of difference. Compared that to a user (such as a office worker who uses a PC
and internet all day at work) and can work in nearly total screen blackness to achieve this saving. Averages 8 hours of PC screen time a day. There is 365 days a year (not counting weekend or holidays-he may work at home or watch PC based TV - Who knows!!) Thus 4w 'saving' (which is per hour) X 8
hours per day X 365 Days = 11680 watt hour or 'wh' worth of power 'saving'.

Now consider electrical companies charger per 1000 w or by kw.... so that is 11.68kwh of saving.
National average charged is $0.1099/kwh (as per http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html) so that is
$1.28 savings (PER YEAR!). That is if you can read a nearly all black screen.

My coffee to keep my bugged eyes open enough to view that screen is more than that per day. Not to mention the DAMAGE to my eyes from squinting
trying to read or watch the PC.

Better yet - use a power setting to turn off that 34.8w to 38.4w LCD Screen after lets say 5 mins - will save nearly 10 time the power than when you view a Dark gloomy hard to view website. BOTH option will give you a BLACK screen to view!!! LOL! Good WORK!


And he responded:


I still use a (good) CRT for photo editing... it has better colour than an
LCD can display. :-)

Thanks for the comments, I don't disagree with anything you say. We were more interested in testing the claims Blackle was making... while there is a
mathmatical difference, how relevant that figure is an entirely different question.

Cheers,

Max


NOW who wants to "save" UP to $1.28 per year on power - but end a life squinting at a dark screen only

So they almost developed something that was done with the SAME hardware 10 years prior to releasing Windows 95. That was one thing I loved from Amiga - no "Inset disk X and press enter". I had fun installing extra (generic) floppy drives and converting a standard 25 pin d-sub to work with the 23 pin custom d-sub that the Amiga used.

"the buyer shall receive complete copy of the source code of the applications together with tools and instructions how to build the application, and the right to use and modify this source code for any purpose. This right shall not be transferable to third parties."

That does not always work. People often used non-GPL (ie:commercial) licensed tools and library for programing.
I am not about to give away copy of MS-Visual Studio with every program I sell/give away. MS Lawyers are not fun to deal with....

You need to review other non-GPL commercial products that offer open code. Like VBulletin board.
Which states:

By installing and using vBulletin on your server, you agree to the following terms and conditions.....

* vBulletin license grants you the right to run one instance (a single installation) of the Software on one web server and one web site for each license purchased. Each license may power one instance of the Software on one domain. For each installed instance of the Software, a separate license is required. Modifications to the Software or database to circumvent the one-license-one-board rule are prohibited.
* The Software is licensed only to you. You may not rent, lease, sublicense, sell, assign, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Software in any form, on a temporary or permanent basis, without the prior written consent of Jelsoft.
.....
* The Software source code may be altered (at your risk)
.....

DONE! OPEN CODE (not open source) with all the rights of commercial copyrights and licensing requirements.

There are alot of variable and depends on the type and levels of service you actually perform and provide. Overall it could be called metrics.

First this I would do is keep a diary of what you do (date/time reported, time in, time out, type of job, and LEVEL of emegency ie:CEO laptop-ASAP, CFO account issue-Ugent, new hire setup-2 days etc...) Using a break-fix or job tracking type of software (punch clock) will help.

Next is to figure out How much inconvence each of the types of job are and or cost to the business. I an employee is sitting idle cause can't use his computer (even though he could do something manually) is a big inconvence and cost the company productity - say about TWICE to THREE time the average salary of the employee (the company pays more that just say your 15.00/hour wage - like insurance, Payrol taxes, computer leases, and other benifits etc...). You could even figure out levels for like office vers CEO - but most likely not Urgent is always worth MORE than non-urgent.... Multiple people down cost (ie Server or Router problems) company more and there are thing we can't control or don't fix our selves - telco interconnect/internet lost etc.... (some contruction dug up a line or two on a few occation here....)

That then SHOWS how much VALUE you save the company.

Then there are other thing like more ADMIN style stuff - creating new employee accounts and installs and decoms and maybe a little bit of programing etc... all that can be equated to time and cost as well - Again time you input - is MUCH more that your hourly salary. Possably 3 to 5 time your salary....

That is the VALUE of what you inputed into the company.

However you have to be carefull as you ALSO have to account for your DOWN time as well (possably 2-3 time your hourly salary) - say ADMIN time / Clean up / prep time etc...

Regarless of how you setup your own metric or measurement - your "Value" will vary - possably ALOT (I know personally). It SHOULD not be used to say - well you did not do hardly anything today/this week/month... cause it should look at how well your performing and possably explain where your bogged down/over whemed and maybe need help or when you have free time to help maybe other people like the boss etc...