| hads | Started monitoring our power usage again, it's a little shocking; http://hadley.rich.gen.nz/power.png | 01:28 |
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| ibeardslee | how are you doing that? | 01:31 |
| ojwb | what's the cycling thing? | 01:31 |
| hads | ibeardslee: I'll blog about it at some stage but we got new meters installed the other day that have little LEDs that flash. I hooked up an Arduino and count the flashes. | 01:32 |
| hads | ojwb: Overnight? That's the heaters in the kids rooms. | 01:33 |
| hads | Red is the water heater. | 01:33 |
| ojwb | ah | 01:33 |
| hads | The spike in the morning is the aircon coming on to heat up the rest of the house. | 01:33 |
| ojwb | heh, i like the hack of counting the flashes | 01:34 |
| hads | They flash 1600/kwh so quite easy to get decent readings. | 01:36 |
| ibeardslee | nice | 01:37 |
| hads | I used to have current clamps over the incoming mains but wasn't very accurate. Counting flashes seems much better. | 01:39 |
| ajmitch | morning | 19:23 |
| ojwb | morning | 19:37 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:54 |
| mwhudson | morning | 20:07 |
| ajmitch | apparantly the steam closed beta for linux starts today, might be interesting to try out | 20:10 |
| ibeardslee | I don't currently play enough games to be of much value ... although maybe needs some not so much game players to get that view of how well it works | 20:12 |
| ajmitch | I don't play that many either, but it'll still be fun to try out, it's a good step forward | 20:14 |
| ibeardslee | especially that Valve seem to be very much 'Windows 8 ... hahaha' | 20:16 |
| ibeardslee | .. right so umm how does one create an account? | 20:24 |
| ajmitch | for? | 20:24 |
| ibeardslee | oh yeah steam/valve | 20:25 |
| ajmitch | well it's a closed beta for now, so you'll probably wait a few weeks | 20:25 |
| ajmitch | they were initially selecting 1000 people for the beta | 20:25 |
| ibeardslee | do they have that 1000 now? | 20:27 |
| ajmitch | they probably had several times that number express interest in the beta, judging from reactions online :) | 20:29 |
| ajmitch | heh, just reading their announcement of it, they got 60k responses in a week | 20:31 |
| ibeardslee | wow | 20:32 |
| chilts | steam? valve? anyone got a link? | 21:46 |
| chilts | this it -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software) | 21:46 |
| ajmitch | http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/ | 21:47 |
| chilts | ta | 21:47 |
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