Invest in a solar panel and get battery packs to run your PC / Laptop. Keep it going 24 / 7 and keep buying more batteries! Invest in a 1KV UPS and A few spike protectors. Your pc will run for sure. Watchman. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com>wrote:
You know people will always talk. However, I saw an inspiring story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/diy_zero_energy_home_server/there. Despite everythin notice that the guy is running on laptops.
Do your stuff man, at least you are trying to solve an issue in your life instead of blaming kenya power all the time. If many people did this, we will help stabilize the energy market bringing power costs down!
Do your stuff, learn from it, share.....
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Job Muriuki <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:
Thats a much more informed opinion from someonoe who has done it.
@ Aki. What haven't you tried out?
On 06/12/2010, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Job, just read this thread and a few minutes to spare. I've setup laptops to be used as servers numerous times due to power issues. Basic guide is to use the "desktop edition" specs for laptops i.e 4 processor, 4GB RAM etc. Disable bluetooth, Wifi, and all other un-necessary stuff to reduce system resources. Default the VGA driver to a simple display settings. Ensure that the enviroment is not dusty and enable power settings to optimise power while close the screen. The laptop should be of business specs and high up on the performance scale. You may have a problem if the network card will not switch to 1GBit Ethernet, so check that out too and disable any power mode settings for the card. Its a balance between what a server should do but cant because of external limitations. HTHs.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Job Muriuki <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:
@ okechukwu,
I didn't say the laptop will work better that a server and I have looked for affordable power backup options to last at least 8 hrsand they are all beyond what I can afford so if you have a workable solution let it out.
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