7 Watts

My sleeping MacPro with 6 gigs of fully buffered dimms, 4 hard drives, and 4 cores consumes only 7 watts of power. This is really amazing to me because it goes to sleep instantly and wakes almost instantly. It doesn't appear to be dumping ram to the hard drive so the ram is being refreshed. 7 watts? Really? That's low, low, low. An AppleTV's "sleep" mode is twice that!

How Much Power Does a Sleeping MacPro Consume?

I just measured it with a Kill A Watt. Take a guess in my poll to the right. No cheating by looking online!

Fix WinXP Search Within Files of Unknown Type

I just had the lovely experience of searching for a string with in vhdl files in a directory on Windows XP only to have it report nothing matching when there were about a dozen files matching.

I fixed it with the following Microsoft support article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309173

Only the last method worked for me:
"Network administrators can configure this setting by modifying the registry. To do this, set the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions DWORD value to 1 in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex"
Be careful in that registry!

Lifestyle Changes

For the first time in a few YEARS I weigh less than 220lbs. Last week I was in the ER with more gallbladder issues. Wait, I have no gallbladder. Turns out that doesn't matter. A gallstone was stuck at my Sphincter of Oddi which pissed of my pancreas and pissed off my liver. They're still angry. Chill out liver!

There is nothing better than a boatload of pain to get you to change your ways. Last week I cut out alcohol and grease - completely. This has been extremely hard for me. I've grown to love alcohol and grease. After all, what's the best thing for washing down a beer?

I don't expect my diet to prevent another gallstone from causing issues. I fully expect it to happen at which point they're going to put me under, shove some tools down my mouth, and widen up the Oddi which will relieve the traffic at the Oddi/intestine interchange.

How cool is the name Sphincter of Oddi?

A Suggestion for Game Developers

Electricity isn't free. Even if you aren't concerned about the environment, you should at least be concerned about parents' bills because they won't have money to buy any more of your stupid games.

How do I turn off the XBOX 360's auto sleep feature?
XBOX 360: Beware, I Hunger