RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Feb 3 16:57:49 UTC 2009


seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > > If you really wanted to save serious power, you'd stop inducing or forcing
> > > people with less power hungry old systems (i586 ring a bell?) to replace them
> > > with considerably hungrier newer systems. New systems make much better room
> > > heaters than old systems, because they use a lot more power, far more than
> > > one extra watt. Support for old systems == really substantial conservation.
> > 
> > Isn't it odd then, that each new system I buy happens to use lower power
> > over time than previous systems?
> 
> Including manufacturing cost, that's not entirely true.

No, but that's not what the poster suggested. Heck, I went from
a 5-year old Athlon64 server to an Atom based one, and cut
the power usage by a factor of over 5.

Bill




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