Standby TVs Waste Electricity, How About ACPI?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 28, 2006 @10:35AM from the do-computers-waste-more-less-or-about-the-same dept.

twitter asks: "There's power management and there's standby, do you know the difference? The BBC is running story on how much electricity is wasted by TV standby mode. Thanks to the very useful EnergyStar program, I'd be the one in seven who thought they were saving electricity, with the standby button. I've been very happy with APM and hibernation on laptops, and want to do something similar with the desktops I use. What's the state of APM / ACPI Wake-on-LAN for Linux these days?" Slashdot touched on this issue, earlier in the week, but that article was more on TVs, not on computer power saving technologies.

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Re: Convenience by icepick72 · 2006-01-28 13:12 · Score: 2, Funny

So our planet can be seen from space as a million pinpoints of light. It will camouflage our earth against the stars from the eyes of onlookers and would-be invaders, allowing us enough time to build up our technology and arsenal against them. C'mon, doesn't anybody see the big picture anymore? The media grabs ahold of small environmental issue and look what happens ... Think people. THINK!
Re:Stop Blaming Environmentalists (was: Convenienc by libcoder · 2006-01-28 20:12 · Score: 2, Funny

*ahem* I seem to remember a terawatt being one TRILLION watts, not one billion. That's just me, I could be wrong...but I'm not.

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