Save Your School Money

[russdev]

You can view the page at http://www.edugeek.net/content.php?r=164-Save-Your-School-Money

[matt40k]

shutdown -m \\computername -s

 

There you go, I've just saved you $60 per machine.

 

Now if there was only some sort of program that would allow be do calculations to work out how much money\electricity I've saved and created graphs based on my data.

[manly]

@matt40k is these time of recession I agree with on this one even it tongue and cheek or not money has to stop being wasted . lol lol

[camel]

Cheers russ for all your presentations about green computing and money saving in ICT over recent months. Been very insightful and though provoking.

 

Spiceworks has the intel power manager plugin. It shows you a snapshot of what PCs are on when they should be off and visa versa, includes a cost saving as you can define the cost per kilowatt, but has no data-logging. Also the FOG Project has built-in power management solution (server/client based) that can shutdown/reboot any computer not logged in. And as an added bonus, you can set the auto logoff feature to auto log off machines after X mins of inactivity. It also has an scheduled wakeup feature. All free.

[featured_spectre]

I was given a directive from the bosses above, when people finish in an ICT suite, they are to shut down the machines, and only use the ones they need. That way we do not waste electricity. When I told them about the PSU going bang as this is exceedingly bad practice, they put it in writing for me, but that said, we have saved over £400 in electricity in 1 term due to this being in place....

[john]

I have found Windows 7 and Virtualisation have helped save us 3000 KWh of electricity in one month which is great news for us, shame the tarrif on the electric went up thus comparing the cost to 12 months ago its cost us an extra couple of hundred pounds, BUT the saving is there as the bill would have been around £300 more than it actually was with the previous usage.