May I please run an extension cord to your house? I'll pay 10c/kWh.:) I'm stuck with 35c/kWh in the winter and 45c/kWh in the summer in southern california (san bernadino county/S.C.Edison). A 65W decrease on my 24/7 server would save me almost $230/yr. @ an avg. kWh rate of 40c. Since my avg. CPU utilization is only 15% though, it's not using up all that much juice. My hard drives however...8W each really sucks. Plus I think my chipset/motherboard sucks more juice up than the actual Q6600 CPU when idle. In total, my kill-a-watt says that my system is pulling a contstant 301W when idle, and peaks at around 345W. The electricity costs more every single months than my $65 20/20Mbit FiOS connection.
Sounds like a coincidence to me. I charge way more than that to install any OS on any computer, as the job usually involves backup and migragation of the client's files, tracking down drivers, and other mundane stuff. For $35 it sounds like the guy was just trying to pickup some cash on the side. Even in the technical fields at my university I know there were *many* people who would never attempt something as trivial as installing an OS. Downloading and installing a printer driver is voodoo to those people, even though they themselves installed the printer via the 'quick setup poster' that came with it when it was new. Trying to show these sorts of people how to do this stuff themselves is an exercise in futility.
I doubt the phisher in question would have the know-how to even be able to install Vista anyways...I heard they're quite lazy.:)
An average Intel C2D desktop (w/ integrated graphics) will consume 50-70W when idle and 80-100W when the CPU is maxxed out. Add an extra 50W to that if you have an older Dual-core P4 (PD). You'd need to be running a massive rack mounted dual proc xeon server with a 14+ drive 3.5" disk storage array to even get near 400W. But yeah, its still a big number:)
I'm at the other end of the spectrum here in the southern california inland empire (San Bernadino County), served by Southern California Edison. Because of the 'baseline' limits that SCE is allowed to set, I end up paying around 35 cents in the winter and 45 cents in the summer per kWh. My idle/full-load delta is about 65W on an Intel C2Q @ 2.7GHz according to my kill-a-watt wattmeter. So running a full-load app on all four cores pulls an extra 1.45kWh's per day. That's right about $20/mo. @ summer rates. Ouch. As you can guess I'm not running any distributed apps. If Nanosolar, Inc. ends up lowering utility prices in 4-5 years I will certainly start running F@H again.
I'd have to say no... No matter what's in the payload of each packet, you still have to communicate with each individual peer and that communication pattern can easily be detected. A VPN style setup would be the solution, so that the middleman (Comcast) wouldn't that you're communicating with multiple peers. Of course that sorta defeats the whole purpose of p2p; now you have a single point that throttles the traffic (the VPN server or hardware device). No VPN server that I know of could handle that much I/O. And who's gonna foot the bandwidth bill? Even the best advertisement/donation supported site wouldn't be able to come remotely close to being able to support an infrastructure like that. Mesh VPN's (Hamachi) to the rescue? That would be nice, but that falls into the situation above. Even though the payload is encrypted, you're still communicating with many other peers in an obvious pattern.
If I were a comcast customer (I hope I never am) I'd get an account with http://www.relakks.com/. You wouldn't think a VPN on the other side of the world (Sweden) would be a great solution for p2p, but it works quite well and provides peace of mind. Getting 8Mb/2Mb on a 15Mb/2Mb FiOS link is not a problem throughout the majority of the day.;)
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May I please run an extension cord to your house? I'll pay 10c/kWh. :) I'm stuck with 35c/kWh in the winter and 45c/kWh in the summer in southern california (san bernadino county/S.C.Edison). A 65W decrease on my 24/7 server would save me almost $230/yr. @ an avg. kWh rate of 40c. Since my avg. CPU utilization is only 15% though, it's not using up all that much juice. My hard drives however...8W each really sucks. Plus I think my chipset/motherboard sucks more juice up than the actual Q6600 CPU when idle. In total, my kill-a-watt says that my system is pulling a contstant 301W when idle, and peaks at around 345W. The electricity costs more every single months than my $65 20/20Mbit FiOS connection.
Sounds like a coincidence to me. I charge way more than that to install any OS on any computer, as the job usually involves backup and migragation of the client's files, tracking down drivers, and other mundane stuff. For $35 it sounds like the guy was just trying to pickup some cash on the side. Even in the technical fields at my university I know there were *many* people who would never attempt something as trivial as installing an OS. Downloading and installing a printer driver is voodoo to those people, even though they themselves installed the printer via the 'quick setup poster' that came with it when it was new. Trying to show these sorts of people how to do this stuff themselves is an exercise in futility. I doubt the phisher in question would have the know-how to even be able to install Vista anyways...I heard they're quite lazy. :)
It seems that they 'accidentally' ran it to my house instead... ;)
No, no they do not.
An average Intel C2D desktop (w/ integrated graphics) will consume 50-70W when idle and 80-100W when the CPU is maxxed out. Add an extra 50W to that if you have an older Dual-core P4 (PD). You'd need to be running a massive rack mounted dual proc xeon server with a 14+ drive 3.5" disk storage array to even get near 400W. But yeah, its still a big number :)
I'm at the other end of the spectrum here in the southern california inland empire (San Bernadino County), served by Southern California Edison. Because of the 'baseline' limits that SCE is allowed to set, I end up paying around 35 cents in the winter and 45 cents in the summer per kWh. My idle/full-load delta is about 65W on an Intel C2Q @ 2.7GHz according to my kill-a-watt wattmeter. So running a full-load app on all four cores pulls an extra 1.45kWh's per day. That's right about $20/mo. @ summer rates. Ouch. As you can guess I'm not running any distributed apps. If Nanosolar, Inc. ends up lowering utility prices in 4-5 years I will certainly start running F@H again.
I'd have to say no... No matter what's in the payload of each packet, you still have to communicate with each individual peer and that communication pattern can easily be detected. A VPN style setup would be the solution, so that the middleman (Comcast) wouldn't that you're communicating with multiple peers. Of course that sorta defeats the whole purpose of p2p; now you have a single point that throttles the traffic (the VPN server or hardware device). No VPN server that I know of could handle that much I/O. And who's gonna foot the bandwidth bill? Even the best advertisement/donation supported site wouldn't be able to come remotely close to being able to support an infrastructure like that. Mesh VPN's (Hamachi) to the rescue? That would be nice, but that falls into the situation above. Even though the payload is encrypted, you're still communicating with many other peers in an obvious pattern.
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If I were a comcast customer (I hope I never am) I'd get an account with http://www.relakks.com/. You wouldn't think a VPN on the other side of the world (Sweden) would be a great solution for p2p, but it works quite well and provides peace of mind. Getting 8Mb/2Mb on a 15Mb/2Mb FiOS link is not a problem throughout the majority of the day.