Eccentric Power Savings

Under the strong influence of the media and its current propaganda about global warming, i resolved to do something about the situation. Finally when i got some free time (THANKFULLY!!!!), i started digging the internet for ideas on power saving and i came across this web-page that said,

BLACK GOOGLE WOULD SAVE 750 MegaWatt-Hours A YEAR!!!

Huh??????
No really, the article described the fact that a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page!!! So, after applying a few calcuations, such as how much time an average user views a google page or how many queries does it get in a day, it concluded that if Google were to change to a black screen, then the world would be saving atleast $75000 a year :)


So, wait a minute... Thats not gonna happen is it? NOPE. Atleast, i wouldn't let it happen. :) . I cant imagine my monitor giving me an impression that im doing a graveyard shift at 12 in the afternoon!! HEHE!! Then what?? Well, there is an alternative. It considers the use of a specialized palette, ie the use of a certain set of colors on ur webpage that would use only 4 watts more than an all black monitor. Thats still 11 watts less than conventional screens . Think of the savings!!!

Here's the palette in case ur interested :)

Fingering with Luck

Well, today was my System's Programming Practical Exam. You know, all that crap about assemblers, macro processors, cpu jop scheduling plus an added bonus of Java!! Too much of spinach on my plate if you ask me. Or mebbe even "karela" for that matter :). Till the very last night, our entire class was mailing one another programs!! Including a "newly" corrected program that had to be learnt and reproduced with whatever means possible (including the use of our brand new flash drives that have just happened to become cheap and popular within these last few months). No seriously, 2 years previous, people did not know what a USB port is!!!


So as usual, i went late. Got a scolding, lost my pen, found my pen and reached late, just to find out that all the good computers with the GOOD keyboards were taken. Now i was left with ancient rock solid clickety-clacks with dust smirched all over them. Wah!! What luck. No actually, What Timing!!! Who asked me come late in the first place! No actually, I was late because I bumped into Batman on the way and he started telling me how he broke up with Rowan Atkinson. :)


So i looked, and looked, and found a good keyboard. Only to realize that the computer did not have VC++ installed on it. So i looked and looked and found the right computer for me. ALAS! The saga ended. Actually, no. There was one more thing. Perhaps, the most frustrating thing of all. After writing a great deal of code, i switch over to TC to compile and run my code. And what do you know, the program would just HANG there. No error, no mouse movement. Just the plain indifference of the compiler to respond to my memorandum. Drat! I hate it when software fails. So after repeated tests, some of which prompted me to change my machine, i realized that i was screwed, chicaned and beaten. All attempts failed, I decided to write the code again to see if it would work. And then after typing out the ENTIRE code "ditto" once again into a new file, voila!! Eureka!!! It ran!! And what was the error?? It seemed that VC++ saved the file in some other ".c" format that the TC ".c" compiler could not read. Now who on earth would have thought of that!!! Drat!! I hate it when software fails!!!