[lug] mac mini server as 24/7 house server?

[Chip Atkinson]

For me it was easy.  Xcel has bar graphs and I could see them grow about 
1/2" on the paper.  October was about as expensive as a cold January and 
it wasn't cold at all.  It was all the server running all the time.


  On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Simos wrote:

>> On 4/21/14 9:10 AM, Quentin Hartman wrote:
>>> Wow, can you hear your power meter spinning from inside the house?
>>>
>> The city of Westminster library has power usage equipment that you can
>> checkout to review your home. I was thinking I'd check one out and do
>> some work.
>
> For anyone in Boulder, the Boulder Library also lets you borrow energy
> meters:
>
> http://research.boulderlibrary.org/content.php?pid=80455&sid=614318
>
> I used an older version of these last year to measure how much it was
> costing me to leave my Linux desktop and my XBMC HTPC on most of
> the day. You can use your Xcell bill to figure out the actual $$.
>
> Simos
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