After a lot of research, thinking, confusion, finding out how much weight our garage roof can take, looking at a local subsidy scheme, finding out said scheme had run out of funding for the year, we finally took the plunge and ordered an (almost) all-in-one plugin-in-solar kit for flat-roof mounting …
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Smart Meter adventures with a helping of Power-Over-(throttled)-Ethernet
On a recent trip to England, I was intrigued as a friend casually showed me his smart meter. It wasn't a big electricity meter, it was just a little display visualising his electricity usage. I assume the actual heavy duty electrical stuff was somewhere else, and I would imagine that …
read moreHibernate a Mac OS X server without losing internet/windows file sharing
Internet Sharing and SMB stop a mac going to sleep. If you want to find out what’s stopping your mac going to sleep, you can run pmset -g assertions. Furthermore, the mac does not allow hibernation. I’m a bit over-energy-conscious, so here is my solution to having an energy-efficient home server. Tell power management to
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