Sad day today

VeNT · 27 May 2006 at 23:36

got my electrisity bill
lets just say, I cryed.
so the crunchers are going off (over night) in a vain attempt to lower my monthly bill (thats now quite a bit more than it was

)
I expect my output will drop by as much as 50% now, as all non essential PCs are *** (ie the ones not used for file servers etc).
sorry guys, but this is the end

Berserker · 28 May 2006 at 00:36

Solution: faster PCs on, slower ones ***

Make the best of a bad situation. I'm expecting to have the same problem this time next year (got a capped price deal until next year, then it's clearly going to go ballistic). In fact, I may have to cut back before then due to having a rather large debt to pay off.

rich99million · 28 May 2006 at 00:39

unlucky mate

I've kept the card meter here on purpose so we don't get a nasty surprise - as far as habits go I wouldn't say it's a particularly expensive one but getting billed a little extra every day for 3 months all at once is bound to make quite a difference

I guess you'll still be able to get some extra output from customer borgs though?

VeNT · 28 May 2006 at 10:42

totaly, the borgs are still going strong, and its only over night atm
I'm not sure its the PCs causing the high bills tbh, but I want to be able to rule them out.

Whitestar · 28 May 2006 at 16:00

I had that surprise, and although the pcs werent the complete source of the problem, they were a large factor.

At least you still have your borgs going so it could be worse.

rich99million · 28 May 2006 at 23:13

Have you been hit by the ludicrous hikes in energy prices too?
I expect that could make quite a difference on top of the extra usage of 24/7 crunching

meaz · 29 May 2006 at 01:43

unlucky, similar here, huge bill - had to sell 4/5 PC's and make 2 faster ones to keep the bill down. Will probably have to do the same again when the next quarter bill comes through.

babyface uk · 29 May 2006 at 08:00

Sad to hear that Mr Vent, least you can still borg

Only reason that I have 11 machines is that 9 are borged ( no leccy bill ) and the 2 at my house 1 is an pentium M so Hardley any juice used there.

Keep em crunching

Babyface UK

VeNT · 30 May 2006 at 17:01

Yarrrr, another borg today, P4 2.4, so maybe I'll get some nice WUs on it!