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Use Linux to Reduce Your Power Bill

Posted by michael on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

Stephen Herzog writes "Linux Devices has published an article about the AcquiSuite, a Linux based hardware device that collects and reports energy consumption information. Companies who are looking at energy management solutions need to keep the cost down in order to recover their retrofit cost with savings from the energy bill. Linux is a perfect fit for cheap data collection devices in part because "Linux provides complete TCP/IP functionality, PPP... and no royalties"."

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  1. fp by Alpha_Nerd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp?

  2. suuuuuuure by bobgoatcheese · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux devices are powered by dreams and pixie dust!

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  3. I am starving! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could eat some Ramen Noodles but I have a difficult time using lighters because of my odd thumb.

  4. How to fuck up linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mount a floppy and eject the disk (oh wait that was bsd)

  5. Re:Electron orbits by Matey-O · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This Can't Possibly Be a Real Person

    No one thinks this way

    It's gotta be a 'bot of some sort.

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  6. Mod parent *FUNNY*!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haha! Yeah! We all have these experiences!

  7. Re:Fucking WINDOWS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow that was the funniest thing ive read in a long time - thanks

  8. Re:Not only does it reduce your power bill.... by Usquebaugh · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    OK I'll bite...

    How did you get Linux running on a Z80? I think you might be pulling this stuff out of the air.

  9. Re:Fucking WINDOWS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yuo woudn't haf that probelm if yuo useed lunix!

  10. Re:The sniper has been identified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HEAR HEAR!

  11. Re:The sniper has been identified... by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "...along with every heterosexual Slashdot poster..."

    Every troll should know that there's no such thing as a heterosexual slashdot poster, you silly goose.

    : /

    Nobody likes my jokes.

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  12. Hope that sniper shoots sum niggers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep I'm offerin a reward for the one that ran away in the summer, see...

  13. Break the chains! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    End the game and win it at the same time!

  14. pr0n??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but all linux users and ./ posters are constantly pr0n, and that uses way more energy