RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 3 04:58:30 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:52 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:53 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >  
> > If you really wanted to save serious power, you'd stop inducing or forcing
> > people with less power hungry old systems (i586 ring a bell?) to replace them
> > with considerably hungrier newer systems. New systems make much better room
> > heaters than old systems, because they use a lot more power, far more than
> > one extra watt. Support for old systems == really substantial conservation.
> 
> Isn't it odd then, that each new system I buy happens to use lower power
> over time than previous systems?

Including manufacturing cost, that's not entirely true.

-sv





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