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At Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:44:21PM -0400 or thereabouts, suspect Walter
Vaughan was observed uttering:
> I agree with you. But have you tried to buy a server in the last few
> weeks? You can't find out diddly anymore about raw performance, but
> golly-geewiz all of a sudden everyone is "green". Its all about the power
> draw, I can get all kinds of graphs about power draw, but it's impossible
> to get speed comparisions anymore.  I'm talking about quad-core Xeons vs
> Opertons. I think a dual 5335 quad core will do me for a few years, but
> all I can find out is that I'll save $500 in power bills.

Tried AlienWare, or that kind of seller?  I'm relatively confident that the
hardcore gamers don't give a damn.  :)  You could tone down the GPU, but
they should offer some decent performance systems from some of the specs
I've seen bandied about.  There are some other resellers in that vein, and
I'd check them out as I've heard AW has gone downhill and gotten to be kind
of blase nowadays.

> I kid you not. I got a direct mail piece from Dell about their green 2U
> server printed on organically grown recycled paper. They had a link to

*eyeroll*

Doesn't help that SillyCon Valley is smack in the middle of a hyped up
greeniemonger state whose power grid suffers rolling blackouts because we
haven't built a nuclear plant since TMI, amongst other reasons.

> a server at 35% off. As soon as I installed more than one drive (which
> it offered) and selected RAID 10 it then complained that I was no longer
> green and wouldn't let me put it in the cart. It complained even louder
> when I selected a second CPU, and even louder when I chose 8 Gig of
> memory. It said that it would cost me $4710 or so, but I got all sort of
> errors about not being environmentally responsible and wouldn't put it in
> the cart. Al Gore works for Dell now?

"We don't want your money.  Go away."  And usually I'm -gone- when they
make it that hard to do business with them.

> Mark, you're so old school. Don't you know that servers that don't
> automatically control how much power they draw is causing the global heat
> wave attacking the midwest this weekend?

Is that what this white stuff falling out of the sky is?  Must be ash.
Actually, I welcome the cold.

mark->
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