May 12, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / COMPUTERS / 0 comments
I just discovered that I’ve left a light on, 24/7 for the last 10 years. And not one of those fancy new ones, one of the old fluorescent 100 watt ones! It’s not really a light, it’s my computers. Even when everything is turned off, my computers and peripherals are drawing 104 watts of power. […]
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drupal: inserting flash content (youtube videos) fails to display in IE
February 18, 2009 / by Rimu Atkinson / APPLICATION, COMPUTERS / 0 comments
One of the drupal web sites I work on had a problem where any youtube video that was posted to the site failed to display on internet explorer. Any other browser worked fine. The code we were trying to insert was this: <object height=”350″ width=”425″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″ classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″> <param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/l0aVaRrBYQE” /> <embed height=”350″ width=”425″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/l0aVaRrBYQE” […]
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Computer electricity usage
May 12, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / COMPUTERS / 0 comments
I just discovered that I’ve left a light on, 24/7 for the last 10 years. And not one of those fancy new ones, one of the old fluorescent 100 watt ones! It’s not really a light, it’s my computers. Even when everything is turned off, my computers and peripherals are drawing 104 watts of power. […]
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