On a more serious note, I got to thinking about this whole idea of "wasted" cpu cycles last night (I know, thinking--a bad idea), and I started to wonder just how "wasted" they really are. When your machine is idle, I've heard that, at least on the intel architecture, there is a command the kernel sends to the processor that is kind of like a super noop, it doesn't cause much switching of transistors and therefore the processor uses very little power. If instead of allowing this to happen you use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such program you are now pretty much making sure that your processor is using the most power possible all the time, right? Now, I know it's not contributing to finding aliens or a cure for cancer, but isn't saving power (and therefore not causing the electrical power plants to burn as much fossil fuels and all that) a good cause too, not to mention a money saver for yourself?
Thanks, Bryan On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 06:01, Soren Harward wrote: > On Mon 26 Jan 2004 at 00:58:06, Andrew Hunter said: > > Yeah, that may be true, but I understand that if you find an alien you get > > to keep it. > > That it true. Though I've heard that the shipping charges are a little > steep. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
