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The Aristocrats!
This is last century's news, and I couldn't find the link, only the text, but, well, judge for yourselves:
Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a user conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around the world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to RISC, and was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he said. Then came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of dedicated service during a period of great revenue growth, the company decided that it was time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, the company unplugged its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it needed to replace them. But things didn't quite go as planned. "They found they couldn't make it work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one year after unplugging their AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That company is Microsoft. "They viewed that as a point of embarrassment," Soltis said. "We thought it was kind of fun....Can you think of a company with greater incentive to move to NT, and they couldn't do it?"
Unfortunately, "briquetted" doesn't exactly roll of the tongue...
Try rrrrrrolling your Rs. Sounds a bit like those youtubes of GAU-8 cannon fire - the rolling R is that cannon firing, and the "iquetted" is the noise the shells make when they hit. Say it really loud....
Me? I just happen to have some free time on my hands today.
I have been saying this same thing for years with regards to IBM's AS/400 platform. Anybody who has every worked with one of these machines will tell you that they are absolutely, hands-down, the greatest database box available today.
Amen brother!
The only people running Os/400 are huge financial institutions who's annual I.T. budget ranges in the Millions of dollars.
Cite? My PPOE(2) had an annual IT budget around AUD$200K, and we managed to run as AS400 E35 + ~50 green-screen terminals and ~50 peecees on that. Try telling people that you could support 100 users on a "server" with 48MB (yes MEGABYTES) memory!
Yes, the HW and OS cost a lot of money to buy, and maintenance is a PITA. OTOH, you put a call in, and someone is there within agreed contract times to fix it, or escalate it. The machines just sit in a corner and run.... for years. The E35 ran for more than 10 years before it became economical to replace it - so they replaced it with NT servers, and we became used the BSOD in the server room.
Yes, fair enough for commercial premises - they have a duty of care to their customers that requires their dishes (and other parts of the restaurant) to be scrupulously clean - sanitised, even (yes I spent 18 months working at a McDonalds that won awards for its cleanliness - I used to wash the big, greasy, grease reserviors from the grills and other cookers, so I know what it means when a *cough*restaurant*cough* needs to keep things clean.
My point was that a dishwasher isn't much better, if at all, resource-and-environment-and-health-wise, than doing household dishes by hand, in the way I described. I mean, spreading germs from one family member to another is gonna happen whether or not the dishes are clinically sterile - we do tend to hug, kiss, and cuddle - even more so when one of us is sick.
As for power consumption, those appliances you mentioned use an electric heating element - these are baaaad for a solar+battery system, and I've learned to do without most of them, or to satisfy those needs/wants another way, e.g. I cook using a gas stove. BTW, those ratings are power ratings, not energy consumption ratings - i.e. a hairdryer might pull 1200 watts, but it's usually on for only a few minutes of time (how many times a week?), but a dishwasher's heating element might be on for 10, 20 or 30 minutes each day, so the dishwasher will use more energy (power*time) annually than the hairdryer. I have to think in terms of energy used rather than peak power loads, because that determines how big my battery bank has to be, and how much solar PV has to be on the roof to replenish that usage every day.
I wasn't a power/energy zealot until I bought a solar-powered house:-)
Seriously - do people really do this? Let me get this right - "Dirty soapy, clean soapy, rinse, chlorine sanitize"
Holy shit, no wonder we're going down the tubes. Do people really think it's necessary to completely sterilise their dishes?
I live on solar power + batteries, backed up by a petrol genset for bad weather, and one think I can't run is a dishwasher. Why? Because dishwashers have water heating elements in them - the specs I've seen say that they will heat incoming water up to 70 or 80 degrees C for washing purposes (that's 20 to 30 degrees above typical household hot water supply), and electric heating elements are one thing that's a no-no for solar+battery systems - it's one of the least efficient uses of electricity known, and regardless of any water savings, the disposal of the caustic output from the wash cycle is an environmental problem, too.
Overall, dishwashers may be of some use to some people (e.g. large families with children too young to wield a wash brush or drying towel), but one sink of soapy and one sink of rinse is enough for this family of four.
It's the same thing with homeowner associations banning the use of outdoor lines for drying clothes because it'll lower property values because "poor people" can't afford electric clothes dryers. I don't see or read such short-sighted things very often.
I think it's got more to do with the "energy debt" that silicon wafers acquire during their manufacture. Anything is better than starting from scratch.
I haven't collected or recorded many stats about its use over the 11 years I've been here, but each {kilo/ton/cord/unit of your preference} of wood that goes into it serves 3 purposes:
1. Cooking - great for bread, pizza, roasts, and long, slow-cooked items (thus I can utilise cheaper cuts of meat without using an electric slow cooker)
2. Heating - it heats the whole house - warmest in the kitchen, of course.
3. Hot water - it has a "wetback" boiler in the firebox with pipes leading to the hot water storage tank directly on the other side of the wall.
Smoke is only visible when starting from cold until it heats up (approx 20 minutes) or for about 5 minutes when adding wood.
I'm aware that there are other emissions which are worse when the stove is starting from cold, and less worse (?) when it reaches operating temperature. It usually idles around 160 deg celcius, and it gets up to 240 deg when cooking pizza.
As far as efficiency goes, when you compare it to coal-generated grid electricity, it's not too bad when you consider total losses from inefficiencies in generation and distribution (no citations here, but I've seen references to losses of up to 60%, i.e. only 40% of the energy in the coal makes it to your house - please point me to accurate information if you can).
It's also a renewable energy source, where coal/oil is not. In fact, we've planted 240 hardwood trees to help out with the expense of buying firewood, and to offset the emissions. We'll plant more as the drought improves (the washing machine outflow is just about enough to keep the first batch alive).
We use mill offcuts and wood that is otherwise unusable for structural/cabinet making, so we're making use of an otherwise wasted resource that would release various "greenhouse gases" anyway as it decomposed.
And it's a good low-tech anodyne to fixing computers all day. It's nice to come home and chop wood - take out your frustrations with lusers^w customers by splitting firewood.
The batteries that were replaced in 2001 were 12 x 2VDC 580 amp hours, and they're still here. I used them as a reserve bank for a while until they were completely exhausted (the regulator can switch charge to the secondary bank when the main bank goes to float, utilising sunlight that would otherwise go to waste). I'm hanging on to them because lead prices will continue to rise while the minerals boom continues and hopefully they'll be an attractive proposition for recycling. Maybe I'll be able to trade them all in when the current bank dies.
True, it's not for everyone, and doesn't make economic sense if the grid's already available (i.e. runs past your front door).
But it's nice to be (mostly) independent, e.g. "Blackout? What blackout?"
The grid is only about 600 metres away from our front driveway, but apart from the initial cost of installation, it would mean a minimum quarterly bill whether we use it or not, blackouts, brownouts, spikes, AC voltage out of spec, cutting down a lot of trees to replace them with power poles (or ripping out large areas of tree root systems to put in underground conduits). Nah. The panels are great talking points, too - "And how do you wash your clothes? Really? You can use a washing machine?" Lots of wide-eyed wonder when I can show a TV AND a computer on at the same time.
I live in Qld, Australia, approx 26 deg lat south. Off-grid, solar + petrol genset backup. Backup is only needed when 2+days of heavy overcast or rainfall.
12 x 55w panels, 12 x 80w panels, 12 x 2VDC 1100amphour lead-acid cells for a 24VDC system. Lights and refrigeration run off 24VDC. Lights are mostly halogen projector bulbs with a few old-fashioned incandescent bulbs (I can't stand compact fluorescents - I can see them flickering out the corner of my eye, and yes, I've tested quite a few). Inverter for 240VAC - it can run a TV, washing machine and 2 computers at once, so there's not much we don't have in the way of appliances.
Solid fuel stove for cooking, heating and hot water. It's nice to come home and chop wood after staring at a computer screen all day long.
System was upgraded in 2001 (new batteries, the 80w panels were added, and a smart regulator installed). The bill was about AUD$14,000 - with govt subsidies we paid AUD$4,000.
Estimated total cost to install such a system today is AUD$25,000 to $30,000, although that could go higher if I wanted a larger battery bank, some smart power switching technology to run computers directly off regulated DC, etc, etc. Subsidy schemes are currently waiting on AUD$134 million to be released for use. I'll install some more panels when that becomes available.
Compared to an estimated AUD$30,000 to get the grid connected.
According to the regulator's history function (30 days' storage of input and output) we use anywhere from 160 amp hours per day to 240 amp hours per day.
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...creates an excel chart based on data in an access database and embeds it in a cad drawing then prints that to pdf and sends an email through outlook... The Aristocrats!
Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a user conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around the world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to RISC, and was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he said. Then came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of dedicated service during a period of great revenue growth, the company decided that it was time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, the company unplugged its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it needed to replace them. But things didn't quite go as planned. "They found they couldn't make it work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one year after unplugging their AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That company is Microsoft. "They viewed that as a point of embarrassment," Soltis said. "We thought it was kind of fun....Can you think of a company with greater incentive to move to NT, and they couldn't do it?"
Who'da thunk it?
Try rrrrrrolling your Rs. Sounds a bit like those youtubes of GAU-8 cannon fire - the rolling R is that cannon firing, and the "iquetted" is the noise the shells make when they hit. Say it really loud....
Me? I just happen to have some free time on my hands today.
Amen brother!
Cite? My PPOE(2) had an annual IT budget around AUD$200K, and we managed to run as AS400 E35 + ~50 green-screen terminals and ~50 peecees on that. Try telling people that you could support 100 users on a "server" with 48MB (yes MEGABYTES) memory!
Yes, the HW and OS cost a lot of money to buy, and maintenance is a PITA. OTOH, you put a call in, and someone is there within agreed contract times to fix it, or escalate it. The machines just sit in a corner and run.... for years. The E35 ran for more than 10 years before it became economical to replace it - so they replaced it with NT servers, and we became used the BSOD in the server room.
I suggest you check out the electrical code for your jurisdiction.
Where I live, the cautions start at 36 volts.
As an alternative, you might google for "electrical safety in the home".
My understanding of the reason for not going above 240VAC in the home is the tendency to arc at switches, and all the bother that can cause.
My point was that a dishwasher isn't much better, if at all, resource-and-environment-and-health-wise, than doing household dishes by hand, in the way I described. I mean, spreading germs from one family member to another is gonna happen whether or not the dishes are clinically sterile - we do tend to hug, kiss, and cuddle - even more so when one of us is sick.
As for power consumption, those appliances you mentioned use an electric heating element - these are baaaad for a solar+battery system, and I've learned to do without most of them, or to satisfy those needs/wants another way, e.g. I cook using a gas stove. BTW, those ratings are power ratings, not energy consumption ratings - i.e. a hairdryer might pull 1200 watts, but it's usually on for only a few minutes of time (how many times a week?), but a dishwasher's heating element might be on for 10, 20 or 30 minutes each day, so the dishwasher will use more energy (power*time) annually than the hairdryer. I have to think in terms of energy used rather than peak power loads, because that determines how big my battery bank has to be, and how much solar PV has to be on the roof to replenish that usage every day.
I wasn't a power/energy zealot until I bought a solar-powered house :-)
Holy shit, no wonder we're going down the tubes. Do people really think it's necessary to completely sterilise their dishes?
I live on solar power + batteries, backed up by a petrol genset for bad weather, and one think I can't run is a dishwasher. Why? Because dishwashers have water heating elements in them - the specs I've seen say that they will heat incoming water up to 70 or 80 degrees C for washing purposes (that's 20 to 30 degrees above typical household hot water supply), and electric heating elements are one thing that's a no-no for solar+battery systems - it's one of the least efficient uses of electricity known, and regardless of any water savings, the disposal of the caustic output from the wash cycle is an environmental problem, too.
Overall, dishwashers may be of some use to some people (e.g. large families with children too young to wield a wash brush or drying towel), but one sink of soapy and one sink of rinse is enough for this family of four.
It's the same thing with homeowner associations banning the use of outdoor lines for drying clothes because it'll lower property values because "poor people" can't afford electric clothes dryers. I don't see or read such short-sighted things very often.
I think it's got more to do with the "energy debt" that silicon wafers acquire during their manufacture. Anything is better than starting from scratch.
Billions and billions..........
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Yeah, they never did make that sequel "with a possible nude scene by Juliet". Man, I waited years for that...
Moties, here we come!
I haven't collected or recorded many stats about its use over the 11 years I've been here, but each {kilo/ton/cord/unit of your preference} of wood that goes into it serves 3 purposes:
1. Cooking - great for bread, pizza, roasts, and long, slow-cooked items (thus I can utilise cheaper cuts of meat without using an electric slow cooker)
2. Heating - it heats the whole house - warmest in the kitchen, of course.
3. Hot water - it has a "wetback" boiler in the firebox with pipes leading to the hot water storage tank directly on the other side of the wall.
Smoke is only visible when starting from cold until it heats up (approx 20 minutes) or for about 5 minutes when adding wood.
I'm aware that there are other emissions which are worse when the stove is starting from cold, and less worse (?) when it reaches operating temperature. It usually idles around 160 deg celcius, and it gets up to 240 deg when cooking pizza.
As far as efficiency goes, when you compare it to coal-generated grid electricity, it's not too bad when you consider total losses from inefficiencies in generation and distribution (no citations here, but I've seen references to losses of up to 60%, i.e. only 40% of the energy in the coal makes it to your house - please point me to accurate information if you can).
It's also a renewable energy source, where coal/oil is not. In fact, we've planted 240 hardwood trees to help out with the expense of buying firewood, and to offset the emissions. We'll plant more as the drought improves (the washing machine outflow is just about enough to keep the first batch alive).
We use mill offcuts and wood that is otherwise unusable for structural/cabinet making, so we're making use of an otherwise wasted resource that would release various "greenhouse gases" anyway as it decomposed.
And it's a good low-tech anodyne to fixing computers all day. It's nice to come home and chop wood - take out your frustrations with lusers^w customers by splitting firewood.
The batteries that were replaced in 2001 were 12 x 2VDC 580 amp hours, and they're still here. I used them as a reserve bank for a while until they were completely exhausted (the regulator can switch charge to the secondary bank when the main bank goes to float, utilising sunlight that would otherwise go to waste). I'm hanging on to them because lead prices will continue to rise while the minerals boom continues and hopefully they'll be an attractive proposition for recycling. Maybe I'll be able to trade them all in when the current bank dies.
True, it's not for everyone, and doesn't make economic sense if the grid's already available (i.e. runs past your front door). But it's nice to be (mostly) independent, e.g. "Blackout? What blackout?" The grid is only about 600 metres away from our front driveway, but apart from the initial cost of installation, it would mean a minimum quarterly bill whether we use it or not, blackouts, brownouts, spikes, AC voltage out of spec, cutting down a lot of trees to replace them with power poles (or ripping out large areas of tree root systems to put in underground conduits). Nah. The panels are great talking points, too - "And how do you wash your clothes? Really? You can use a washing machine?" Lots of wide-eyed wonder when I can show a TV AND a computer on at the same time.
I live in Qld, Australia, approx 26 deg lat south. Off-grid, solar + petrol genset backup. Backup is only needed when 2+days of heavy overcast or rainfall. 12 x 55w panels, 12 x 80w panels, 12 x 2VDC 1100amphour lead-acid cells for a 24VDC system. Lights and refrigeration run off 24VDC. Lights are mostly halogen projector bulbs with a few old-fashioned incandescent bulbs (I can't stand compact fluorescents - I can see them flickering out the corner of my eye, and yes, I've tested quite a few). Inverter for 240VAC - it can run a TV, washing machine and 2 computers at once, so there's not much we don't have in the way of appliances. Solid fuel stove for cooking, heating and hot water. It's nice to come home and chop wood after staring at a computer screen all day long. System was upgraded in 2001 (new batteries, the 80w panels were added, and a smart regulator installed). The bill was about AUD$14,000 - with govt subsidies we paid AUD$4,000. Estimated total cost to install such a system today is AUD$25,000 to $30,000, although that could go higher if I wanted a larger battery bank, some smart power switching technology to run computers directly off regulated DC, etc, etc. Subsidy schemes are currently waiting on AUD$134 million to be released for use. I'll install some more panels when that becomes available. Compared to an estimated AUD$30,000 to get the grid connected. According to the regulator's history function (30 days' storage of input and output) we use anywhere from 160 amp hours per day to 240 amp hours per day.
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