Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dinesh Nair
>Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:58 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
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>On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
>> Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go?  It
>> is turned into heat.  Which heats your house.  Which means you do
>> not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there.
>
>that's a very geocentric view. for most of us who live in the 
>tropics or on 
>the equator where the ambient temperature is 31degC, the wasted 
>power is 
>really wasted twice: once from the PC, and once more thru higher 
>airconditioning/cooling devices.
>

In the tropics you are flooded with free energy streaming down
on you all day long and your complaining?!?!?  Please, search
Google for the term "photovoltaic" and be enlightened.

Ted