[mythtv-users] What to check/change when changing LAN subnet

[Sam Jacobs]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everybody has old computers. For a firewall/router a pentium2 with
> 256Mb memory and an old 20 Gb HD is already overkill.

For something that's going to be powered on 24/7, using an old PC
possibly isn't as smart a move as you might think, financially. When I
started using MythTV again, late last year, the machine I used for a
slave backend was the PC I built way back in 2004 (or 2005) when I
*first* started using Myth.

I'd forgotten how loud the thing was, but what I'd *never* realised
back when my mother was paying the bills was how much damn power the
thing uses! My electricity usage for the weeks I was using it was
about a third higher than usual, and the thing was off for much of the
day! The computer I'm using now is a C2D small form factor machine,
and while it *is* vastly overpowered in the number crunching
department, it uses just a fraction of the electricity.

There have been massive leaps forward in energy efficiency over the
past 10+ years, and I'd advise anyone considering using an old
computer to think about the *real* cost that doing so might incur.

Sam


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