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DIY HVAC

An anonymous reader writes "I found this very interesting project called DIY Zoning. It allows one to add air flow balancing, temperature control, zoning, home automation, and more to an existing or new HVAC system. After getting a $200 electric bill, this sounds like a good solution for those who are getting screwed with outrageously high electric bills due to their HVAC unit especially since organizations like TVA have raised the electric rates."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. The Passion : a review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I walked out of The Passion not two hours ago. It was worse than many made for tv movies. For example, the never ending close ups of Mary's one tear. If the mother-son relationship was too complex to take in through 10 teary closeups, exactly the same, Mel offers a flashback of a child Jesus falling down and Mary running to him, juxtaposed with Jesus bearing the cross, falling down, with Mary running to him. See the connection?

    Then there's the blood splattering everywhere, all the time, with never ending slo-mo. When the cat-o-nine tails rips Jesus' flesh and exposes ribs, now that's human torment that can really drive a religious experience.

    Crucifiction was a spectacle of Death, abolished for that reason.

    Luckily, we have Mel to thank for bringing the spectacle back 2000 years later.

  3. HVAC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought HVAC was the intense gravatational field inflicted on mankind by CowboyNeals ass?

  4. the role of Danny Glover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    I especially enjoyed the role of Danny Glover as an aging cop who, through a number of cirsumstances beyond his control, is never allowed to retire.

  5. Necessary Slashdot Reform Proposal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Call for more accurate rating system

    Currently the "troll" characteristic is applied without care to its genuine meaning; this is the motivation for the proposal of the following categories with similar -1 point attributes as "troll" and "off topic": 1. Radical 2. Off topic - Ideology/Religion 3. Spite. These three categories would do much to clarify the mass that is currently grouped under only troll and off topic.

    By implementation of these reforms of similar, the decrease of a point leads to categorization rather than censorship. Otherwise, the moderation system is only distributed censorhip among the elite with point modification ability. Alternatives are to abolish the point system, or to make it completely public. No other way is valid.

  6. Jesus is not his real name! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yahushua is the true name of the Messiah

    Note that Joshua = Yoshua or Yahushua because there is no "J" sound in Hebrew. The letter "J" is only about 500 years old and isn't even found in the original 1611 King James version.
    The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Messiah's name never was "Jesus" and that the name "Jesus" is actually an invention of man.

  7. Well.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    At least we shouldn't be able to slashdot sourceforge....

    Probably.....

    *sigh*

  8. Re:Here's some solutions to help lower the bill: by themusicgod1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    the computational potency of the earth is not infinite. do not turn of your computers, and make sure they are doing something at all time so long as it is reasonable to do so. i have 3 computers on right now, although one is being used to look at porn and browse slashdot(two relatively useless activities). contriubte to folding@home, or even seti@home if you must... help distributed computing projects with your cycles if you have nothing better to do with them. only leave your cycles empty when you are using your computer actively, and when you 'might need them' (ie, my main system(p-166 with 32mb ram) thrashes when i'm using either 100% of my ram+swap or 100% of my cpu... and this wastes human-time.) instead of looking for YOUR best interest as a capitalist, look for the SPECIES best interest by helping us increase the computational fortitude of the whole.
    thedark.moonside.org total Mhz: 351

    don't like the cost? then join us in the revolution - there's no reason for electricity to cost anything beyond simple greed, and the initial costs.

    --
    GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
  9. minus 5$, Troll) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    towels 0n the floor of reality. KKep me if you'd like, Usenet posts. by clicking here You join today! 'superior' machine. writing is on the a previously

  10. Re:Easier way to lower the electricity bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, yes, few kids! Avoid the Alternative Minimum Tax!

  11. Are you cute? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2002; B.S. Comp Sci Dartmouth 1999

    So, are you cute? Do you have a picture online? Post a link to it!