[01:28] <hads> Started monitoring our power usage again, it's a little shocking; http://hadley.rich.gen.nz/power.png
[01:31] <ibeardslee> how are you doing that?
[01:31] <ojwb> what's the cycling thing?
[01:32] <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.
[01:33] <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.
[01:34] <ojwb> heh, i like the hack of counting the flashes
[01:36] <hads> They flash 1600/kwh so quite easy to get decent readings.
[01:37] <ibeardslee> nice
[01:39] <hads> I used to have current clamps over the incoming mains but wasn't very accurate. Counting flashes seems much better.
[19:23] <ajmitch> morning
[19:37] <ojwb> morning
[19:54] <ibeardslee> morning
[20:07] <mwhudson> morning
[20:10] <ajmitch> apparantly the steam closed beta for linux starts today, might be interesting to try out
[20:12] <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
[20:14] <ajmitch> I don't play that many either, but it'll still be fun to try out, it's a good step forward
[20:16] <ibeardslee> especially that Valve seem to be very much 'Windows 8 ... hahaha'
[20:24] <ibeardslee> .. right so umm how does one create an account?
[20:24] <ajmitch> for?
[20:25] <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
[20:27] <ibeardslee> do they have that 1000 now?
[20:29] <ajmitch> they probably had several times that number express interest in the beta, judging from reactions online :)
[20:31] <ajmitch> heh, just reading their announcement of it, they got 60k responses in a week
[20:32] <ibeardslee> wow
[21:46] <chilts> steam? valve? anyone got a link?
[21:46] <chilts> this it -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
[21:47] <ajmitch> http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/
[21:47] <chilts> ta