Comment Re:What a nightmare! (Score 1) 117
This ^^ is complete bollocks.
Comment cherry picking hardware (Score 5, Informative) 260
The PCWorld article seems to have been dictated by the Intel marketing department word for word; Tom's has better analysis, which mentions a lot of the smoke and mirrors intel is using:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fu...
There's quite the whiff of desperation from intel with these heavily skewed testing methodologies.
Comment Re:So sad that JCL will probably make them run awa (Score 2) 151
"That and one Z series server is certainly not the equivalent of 1500 x86 based servers." ...in price maybe!!
Submission + - Amid Pandemic, US Renewable Power Sources Have Topped Coal For 40 Days (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coal-fired power in the United States for a record 40 straight days, according to a report based on U.S. government data released on Monday. The boost for renewables is due to a seasonal increase in low-cost solar and hydro power generation, alongside an overall slump in electricity demand caused by coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Coal tends to be the first power source to be cut by utilities when demand falls because subsidized renewable sources are cheaper to operate and often backed by state clean-energy mandates.
Every day between March 25 and May 3, solar, wind and hydro plants together produced more electricity than the nation’s coal-fired plants — accounting for about a fifth of the grid’s power, IEEFA said. The longest back-to-back stretch previously was nine days in 2019. In total in 2019, renewables beat coal on just 38 days, IEEFA said. IEEFA added it is possible that renewable energy in the United States could exceed coal on an annual basis for the first time this year, a year earlier than it initially forecast, if the power consumption trends caused by the health crisis continue.
Every day between March 25 and May 3, solar, wind and hydro plants together produced more electricity than the nation’s coal-fired plants — accounting for about a fifth of the grid’s power, IEEFA said. The longest back-to-back stretch previously was nine days in 2019. In total in 2019, renewables beat coal on just 38 days, IEEFA said. IEEFA added it is possible that renewable energy in the United States could exceed coal on an annual basis for the first time this year, a year earlier than it initially forecast, if the power consumption trends caused by the health crisis continue.
Comment Sun Ray's work well and are cheap (Score 4, Informative) 349
Have a look at the 'Sun Rays' from Sun - they've been around for years; they are cheap and very reliable:
http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Desktop&subcat=Sun%20Ray%20Clients
The prices shown on the Sun site are list-price - we get a Very healthy discount off of this, which brings the prices down even further.
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