Wanted: a "Save energy, be more secure" howto
M. Fioretti
mfioretti at mclink.it
Sat Mar 5 17:19:27 UTC 2005
Greetings,
In these messages:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg01119.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg01128.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg01155.html
I have summed up why it's not a smart thing, for most home users, to
let their PCs up 24/7, whatever OS they run. In a nutshell:
A few hundreds USD of electricity per household going just wasted
every year
Non professionally managed boxes open to attacks: bad for your data
and the other netizens who may be hit through your PC
I have two practical questions about this (***):
1) are there any exhaustive statistics on how many Watts a current
computer (say P4 with 7200 rpm drive + energy star monitor) really
dissipates when idle? Not peak figures, the actual electricity
adsorbed when it's on but doing nothing, just waiting for somebody
to hit the keyboard
2) Is there a one stop howto about how to:
make your (Fedora) PC save as much energy as possible and/or
turn all networking off automatically, as soon as
no interactive processes are on (maybe including
ftp downloads)
go back to 100% functionality (restart networking, download
email...) when the user is back to the keyboard.
I know that this is possible, but it would really great to have
everything in one place for non technical users, those who would get
the greatest savings and extra security for this because they use the
computer sparingly. Maybe packaged so that "if you just install this
one script so and so, it will take care of everything automatically"
Thoughts? Suggestions? Pointers?
TIA,
Marco Fioretti
(***) DISCLAIMER: I have written some paid articles for Linux
Journal. While writing this message, I just realized that an howto
article on this subject may interest them. In other words, that I
might even end up paying some of my electricity bill out of my
worries...
Now, I don't know now *if* they would accept such an article, but:
if I submit a proposal and they accept it, I'll certainly give
all due credit to whoever will submit relevant tips
There is surely somebody out there more qualified to write this
in less time than it would take to me. By all means do go on and
write it if you can. What matters is to make this information
widely available and easily useable.
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Red Hat & Fedora for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,
an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads
lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a
magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be,
have nothing important to communicate. -- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
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