{"id":557,"date":"2006-03-08T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2006-11-28T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T20:53:55","slug":"power-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Power Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at reducing energy bills, given the ongoing price hikes, and the first step has been to look at replacing the old piece of shit boiler we have. That&#8217;s soon to be underway (\u00a3\u00a3\u00a3!), and another thing that seems like a good idea is to reduce the PC power consumption, as I have 2 &#8216;servers&#8217; and a firewall PC running pretty much all the time. I&#8217;ve thought about either an old laptop, if I can find one, or splashing out on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mini-itx.com\">Mini-ITX<\/a> PC for one server or the firewall. Trouble is, the firewall would need 4 ethernet ports, plus Mini-ITX=\u00a3\u00a3\u00a3 compared to old, throwout PCs. Anyone know a <b>very cheap<\/b> source of Mini-ITX, or of multi-port ethernet cards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at reducing energy bills, given the ongoing price hikes, and the first step has been to look at replacing the old piece of shit boiler we have. That&#8217;s soon to be underway (\u00a3\u00a3\u00a3!), and another thing that seems like a good idea is to reduce the PC power consumption, as I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Power Down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-energy","category-general","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}