power usage

[maximumbawb]

I got a watt meter to see how much power my various computers were using. Here's what I found:

Comments

speadsheet?

[minimum_ty]

Is $1/Watt/year the going rate of electricity? Do you have charts for this data?

[maximumbawb]

The marginal rate for one additional kwh of power from Austin Energy for me is 0.0782 "energy" and 0.03653 "Fuel"

so:

($0.0782+$0.03653)/1kilowatthour * 1kilowatthour/1000watthours * 24watthours/1wattday * 365wattdays/1wattyear = $0.96/wattyear

[maximumbawb]

maybe it's using the wrong bios drive mapping? What kind of read error?

The grub info manual is handy for figuring out what's wrong:
http://info2html.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/info2html-demo/info2html?(grub.info.gz)Troubleshooting

And to fix it, you'll probably have to boot a rescue CD or live CD.

[maximumbawb]

Error 18 would be:
18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block
address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally
happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for
(E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general).