Pollux is the latest addition to my ever-shrinking stable of machines, and is the first of a two stage process to replace my VM server with a trio of small, lightweight machines to handle my production server duties.
Prior to this month, I had Altair, Polaris, and Vega. Altair was my primary file server with massive internal storage, Polaris was dedicated to “services”, and Vega just kinda sat where ever I could find a hole with power and ethernet.
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So this summer when energy started to go through the roof I decided it was time to “green up” a little more and get more energy efficient about things, not to mention lower my electric bill as much as possible. So shortly after classes started this semester I picked up a Kill-A-Watt and did some measurements.
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Courtesy of Gus Mueller:
Adobe Reader 9 is out!
I had a long rant typed up, but I just deleted it in favor of simply saying (once again):
I Hate Adobe.
And also that if at any point in the future I am presented with a way to never use anything related to CS3 again, I’ll take it, run, and never look back.