I've set up a small recurring donation for now. I'd like to throw out some ideas and questions if I may:
* Anyone selling an OpenBSD-based solution to business customers might want to imagine the OS has some sort of 'license fee', increase the quote for their work accordingly, and pass along the sum in donations. * Please could we get a newer picture than rack2009.jpg? I assume much has already changed; I don't see a loongson build machine for example. Would the picture be anywhere near representative of where the CAN$20k electricity costs arise? * Is there any easy means on-hand to measure power consumption, maybe reading stats from the UPSes, or using plug-in meters such as those made by CurrentCost; would anything like that be worth putting on the hardware wishlist? * Could potential energy savings be roughly worked out, and maybe mentioned in the hardware wishlist somehow? Would a Sun Fire T1000 be able to replace some number of older sparc boxes for example? And as SSDs become larger, would a pair of them be able to replace some number of power-hungry 10k RPM disks? Such things are all the more valuable as donations if they have a lower operating cost than what they replaced. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org
