Im not green but that little kia I have is slightly out of tune and still getting 38mpg with the air conditioner on, based on the MPG given above with the prius I kinda feel good, maybe Ill go get a tuneup, toss some better spark plugs and a K&N filter in there and see if I cant beat 45 mpg with a normal gas engine
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With small cars, it's not hard. I used to have a Hyundai Accent (probably the same chassis as your Kia,) and with ultra-careful driving, I could push it up into the 40s. With the Prius, I can be my normal leadfoot self, and get the mid 40s. If I drive ultra-carefully, I can reach the mid 50s.
I don't drive as much as you I guess. Actually, the warranty on my Cobalt just ended at 3 years and the car has almost exactly 36,000 miles (which also ends the warranty).
I only put a few thousand miles on it the first year because all I did was drive to high school 1 mile away and to friends' and minor errands and such, so it wasn't exactly 12,000 miles per year. But over the life of the Cobalt (paid exactly $13,750) vs the life of the Prius ($20,000+) I don't think I could break even with my current driving habits, so it makes sense to have the Cobalt.
I would not mind having like a GM EV1 or something (if they weren't all crushed) especially since I have my van now. The EV1 would be absolutely perfect.
I only put a few thousand miles on it the first year because all I did was drive to high school 1 mile away and to friends' and minor errands and such, so it wasn't exactly 12,000 miles per year. But over the life of the Cobalt (paid exactly $13,750) vs the life of the Prius ($20,000+) I don't think I could break even with my current driving habits, so it makes sense to have the Cobalt.
I would not mind having like a GM EV1 or something (if they weren't all crushed) especially since I have my van now. The EV1 would be absolutely perfect.
Yeah, if you take it seriously, have the funds available, or as in the case of the VCFA administrator, receive donations, then a powermac would be a suitable server.
I've actually been thinking of grabbing a G4 or G5 running debian Linux, Leopard or Leopard Server to replace tacgnol (the laptop server I've got right now), as a more robust solution, although that is borne very specifically out of my own personal desire to run old, ancient, mostly unsupported, proprietary UNIX platforms.
I also have a pentium dual-core system that I may put back in the server role, where it was before I realized that it's really more horsepower than I need right now, but I can easily mirror the dual 750gb disks in that machine, and use it as a backup server for whatever other machines I have, as well as just web/shell.
Anyway... not everybody who is willing to run something like the VCFA has a P|DC box hanging around, or even a powermac G4 that they can just drop into service. And likewise, not everybody with G4s and similarly powerful machines is willing to run an archive like VCFA. (I have the computational horsepower and the bandwidth for it, but in a round-about way, I work for my ISP and am unwilling to host anything that might break our AUP, and thusly get me fired.
I've actually been thinking of grabbing a G4 or G5 running debian Linux, Leopard or Leopard Server to replace tacgnol (the laptop server I've got right now), as a more robust solution, although that is borne very specifically out of my own personal desire to run old, ancient, mostly unsupported, proprietary UNIX platforms.
I also have a pentium dual-core system that I may put back in the server role, where it was before I realized that it's really more horsepower than I need right now, but I can easily mirror the dual 750gb disks in that machine, and use it as a backup server for whatever other machines I have, as well as just web/shell.
Anyway... not everybody who is willing to run something like the VCFA has a P|DC box hanging around, or even a powermac G4 that they can just drop into service. And likewise, not everybody with G4s and similarly powerful machines is willing to run an archive like VCFA. (I have the computational horsepower and the bandwidth for it, but in a round-about way, I work for my ISP and am unwilling to host anything that might break our AUP, and thusly get me fired.
i understand the appeal and benefits of running at at home server, but I just use a hosting company
pay up front for 2 years of service, get free domain renewal and proxy and it boils down to less than 5 bucks a month for quality uptime on a fast pipe and let someone else who is obligated by contract do all the bs maintenance work
yea maybe I cant run my own quake server with it, but being connected to a linux box with ssh and all the usual stuff on a oc480,0001,1000,8 and hassle free just works better for me
pay up front for 2 years of service, get free domain renewal and proxy and it boils down to less than 5 bucks a month for quality uptime on a fast pipe and let someone else who is obligated by contract do all the bs maintenance work
yea maybe I cant run my own quake server with it, but being connected to a linux box with ssh and all the usual stuff on a oc480,0001,1000,8 and hassle free just works better for me
Once I'm done at the university, I will likely need to discontinue having my own server, as I'll have an electric bill, and a slower network connection. The extend of my shell use tends to be screen+irssi so a system like sdf.lonestar.org would be suitable for that, and I could easily host my website somewhere else, or simply discontinue the use of my own website in the way I use it now.
With the laptop or another low-power device (dectop, anything atom based) as a server I'd probably be okay to host little things out of my home. There's no real reason my personal blog needs to be on a particularly fast connection, except that it makes getting slashdotted so much more fun.
With the laptop or another low-power device (dectop, anything atom based) as a server I'd probably be okay to host little things out of my home. There's no real reason my personal blog needs to be on a particularly fast connection, except that it makes getting slashdotted so much more fun.
The server we're discussing is hosting abandonware. Most real web hosts won't allow that on their server, so he has to run it himself.
We're still not talking about huge amounts of power here. You guys must have really expensive electricity or something.
At the apartment where I live we don't have individual electric meters. They meter the whole complex, and then we pay a sub-divided rate based on the square footage of the apartment as well as the number of occupants. My entire utilities bill (includes water, sewage, electric, trash, and gas) is never more than $100/mo even in the summer. We have chilled water air conditioning though instead of individual compressors so I think that saves money as well.
I could run several servers and basically the entire complex would be subsidizing those servers. I only have a 1.5 Mbps upload though, but it is a static IP.
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