conceitedjerk
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Soooooo... are we gonna have a Winter Warmup in '09?
I'll actually have time to participate, unlike this summer...
I'll actually have time to participate, unlike this summer...
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Winter Warmup '09??
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Scott Baret
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Winter warmup = heating your house with 10 Mac Pluses (toasters)...
conceitedjerk
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Heh, I did something similar years ago with a gaggle of sparcstations
Christopher
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*looks down upon you*
I can heat my room by cranking my iMac's fans and turning on my PowerMac G4 for a little bit.
I once got my room up to 90ºF one night.
I can heat my room by cranking my iMac's fans and turning on my PowerMac G4 for a little bit.
I once got my room up to 90ºF one night.
conceitedjerk
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Cool, so I have a month to figure out what I'm gonna do!
luddite
Host of RetroChallenge
I doubt it... nobody bought last year's overpriced junk and I don't have the budget for lavish prizes this time round.will we have the option of buying an over priced t-shirt and mouse mat to commemorate the event?
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But the memories will last a lifetime. ;-)
coius
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heh. My room stays a toasty 85 Deg F in the summer with AC on because of my 7 machines that stay on (PowerMac G4, PowerMac G3, Server, 2 laptops, PM 7200 and a Pentium III dell) all the time. I use all of them daily (hard to believe) because I do a lot of work.
During the winter, it may go down to 80 degrees, but I have to close the heater vent in the room.
My electic bill is $350/mo
I pay for 1/3 of it.
arfink
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Woot, I'll be there. Gotta figure out how to get my MSS-VIA working here at school though, that could be tough. I know, I'll give the IT department it's MAC address and tell em it's a Wii, that ought to work... See, they require you to authenticate with Javascript otherwise, which doesn't work with Apple IIc or Wii either. Since lots of colllege people have been whining about Wiis not working I should be able to get my MSS-VIA in under that plan.
Anonymous Freak
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heh. I just discovered that my newly remodeled basement office holds the heat in *REALLY* well. (New proper walls on top of the concrete; brand new triple-pane windows and sliding glass door that are way more efficient than the old aluminum-frame single-pane stuff that was in here before.
So much so that when we came back from our Thanksgiving trip, the office was a good 15 °F toastier than the room right next to it. Even more amazing is the fact that it was heated by three computers: a MacBook Pro, a Power Mac G4 Digital Audio with a 1.5 GHz upgrade, and my new fast-fast, Core i7. And that's it. This room doesn't even HAVE a heat vent, and the furnace was off, to boot. (It's not that big a room, though. Maybe 8' by 20'
The Power Mac G4 is my server, and goes to sleep from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM daily. The MacBook Pro and the Core i7 desktop were sitting running World Community Grid the whole time. And we were only gone for about 36 hours!
So much so that when we came back from our Thanksgiving trip, the office was a good 15 °F toastier than the room right next to it. Even more amazing is the fact that it was heated by three computers: a MacBook Pro, a Power Mac G4 Digital Audio with a 1.5 GHz upgrade, and my new fast-fast, Core i7. And that's it. This room doesn't even HAVE a heat vent, and the furnace was off, to boot. (It's not that big a room, though. Maybe 8' by 20'
The Power Mac G4 is my server, and goes to sleep from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM daily. The MacBook Pro and the Core i7 desktop were sitting running World Community Grid the whole time. And we were only gone for about 36 hours!
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