I’m not saying I’m happy to get my latest power bill, but it certainly looks a lot better than the past couple of months! It’s about half of what it usually is because I’ve made a serious effort to cut it down. My house has two 2½ ton heat pumps, plus a “mini-split” wall unit that heats/cools the media room. I have set the thermostats to let it get as cold as 62 degrees Fahrenheit at night, and 68 during the day, and just leave the wall unit turned off. It gets colder than I like it, but I’m liking this much lower power bill much better!
I also unplugged the upright freezer since we hardly use it these days, and unplugged the mini-fridge in the master bedroom. Nearly all the light bulbs are compact fluorescent except for the recessed lights. I suppose I could turn off some of these computers (normally two are running plus a laptop and the PS3), but I don’t think they play that big of a part. I think the next thing will be to install a timer on the water heater. Maybe if I put up a clothesline instead of using the electric dryer we could get it down below 1500 kWh for a month… ?
MMmmm… reasonable power bill. That would be nice. 
EDIT: Funny — saw the black Google page today for the Earth Hour thing. Looks like I’m already doing my part.
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July 19, 2008 at 3:06 pm
JJr
do you no why yellowdog_board is down. Im trying to get you article on how to make my sixaxis wireless
July 19, 2008 at 4:15 pm
billb
No, I don’t know why the board is down — it’s a bit of a mystery.
I have a new forum up:
http://forums.ps3bodega.com/
Look in the Guides & How-to Articles section.
July 19, 2008 at 8:58 pm
JJr
I remember seeing you article on yellowdog-forums, so when i was ready the site was down. Looked every where for a subsitute but not explained as well as yours. This being said, Thanks, really. You got anything on how to compile mame to work on my ps3 yld6 linux.
July 20, 2008 at 1:00 am
billb
Also on the new forum, look under Gaming & Emulation (just posted it).
July 24, 2008 at 10:04 am
keefy
Whilst it works I cannot get the zoom to zentre on Quake 2 it always seems to be in topleft of screen quake2 that is not the zoom.
Also gconf-editor is not recognised in YDL
July 24, 2008 at 2:42 pm
billb
Not sure I understand … what resolution are you running on your desktop, and at what resolution are you running quake2 full screen?
Re: gconf-editor, you just need to install it first (it’s included in yellowdog-base)
yum install gconf-editor