My buddy Romeo died late last night, of a undetermined condition. He’d been sick for over a month.
I named him Romeo after I found him very young inside the suspension of an Alfa Romeo.
He was the youngest of 3 cats in the house but still managed to teach something to the other ones: he knocked on the door.
The garden door on the back of the house had a ring like doorknob. He streched all the way to the doorknob and (always) knocked 3 times with it so to get our attention and get in. If no one opened the door promptly he would (always) repeat the knocking with a different speed. Amazing 
A very good friend on cold nights and a real pain in the ass on hot nights. Not only he slept on the bed but had to sleep inside it and glued to me.
Oh and I often caught him sleeping on top of my MacBook Pro. What can I say, it was hot and apparently comfortable.
So long my friend, you’ll be missed.
Romeo set on Flickr
I just configured my locked in router mode Clix Adsl modem via CLI in bridge mode.
I’m going to reset the configuration to default again and replicate the setup. With that confirmed, I’ll post a howto tomorrow if time permits.
I finally found an Energy Meter device! I saw one on a catalogue once at around 9€ but it was a one time promo, and I found it on the wrong week…
I bought mine at around 25€ on Aki.
I was curious of the power usage of some devices and got surprising results. You can find my incomplete list here but here are the perls:
- TVCabo Powerbox: when on 9W, when idle 9W. What’s the power button for again?
- (black)Creative 5.1 Speakers: when switched off 18W, when playing 23W. This ones have a remote volume button with a on/off switch ala old transistor radios. I’ve got some old (white) Creative 4.1 that have a power button on the subwoofer. Same story: with the power button off almost the same consumption as while playing.
- Asus v192S 19″ Wide. It’s a relatively new monitor. It’s stupid because when not active(no cable is connected or standy via pc) it enters standby mode (orange led) and 7W are used. When I press the (push) power button (led off) 7W are used.
Between 2 pairs of speakers, 1 monitor and my home pc, I’m now saving at least 50W just by turning them off at the plug instead of keeping them in standby!
I’d say those 25€ the power meter device cost me, will be recovered pretty fast…
