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Athena Video Monitor Power Save information for outreach articles.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Jan 12 17:39:35 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:38:09 -0500
To: Robyn Fizz <fizz@mit.edu>
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Robyn,
Thanks for the chat today, and for offering to help to get the word
out. Here is a first draft of everything that could be said.
Perhaps you can suggest some amendments to say it more succinctly.
---- Begin draft ----
On Tuesday January 13, 2009, Athena on Linux and Solaris enabled
power save mode on its video monitors.
Historically, Athena never shut off the video display. A screen saver
with the Athena logo enabled an operator to identify dead machines
just by glancing into the room. A blank screen meant a broken
system. When power saving became standard practice, Athena disabled
the power save feature, fearing that people would be too used the
Athena convention, "blank monitor means dead Athena Workstation".
The power consumed even by a low power LCD display is significant:
We expect to save in excess of 75 MegaWattHours of electricity per
year. (25 watts per monitor, 10 hours idle time, 900 systems, 365
days.)
We hope that Athena users will realize that a blank Athena screen no
longer means a broken computer, but instead means Athena has finally
"gotten with the program" -- that our monitors behave like standard
monitors and may need a move of the mouse or the strike of a key to
wake up.
---- End Draft ----
-Bill
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