[frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - Sept. 15, 2011

  • From: Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:51:35 -0400 (EDT)

headless will consume less power then. 

----- Original Message -----

| Yes, you will need ad 24/7 connection and server running to pull the
| update in the late night hours...

| Tony is also correct, using a pogoplug will not work due to it's arm
| processor...

| Seriously though, a modest computer for a server will not use that
| much power.... The monitors use more... (unless lcd obviously)

| Richard

| On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Mike Cook < mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx >
| wrote:

| | I was thinking about apt-proxy last night when I read Tony's first
| | email. I couldn't remember the name so I figured I'd respond when I
| | remembered it. I don't think we need the entire repository, most
| | packages probably will never be used and will just take up drive
| | space and bandwidth for updates. I hadn't thought about the issue
| | of
| | Ubuntu's all to frequent updates not being cached until requested
| | and hadn't been even considering whether we would need a system
| | running 24/7. Maybe we could use something like a SheevaPlug or a
| | PogoPlug they only use about 5W maximum.
| 

| --
| Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
| Mishawaka, IN

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