I just found this site: Earthle

What is Earthle?

Earthle was created with the idea in mind to save your energy and reduce your electricity bill.

According to the creator, all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.

Extract from Earthle:

Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that’s $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

Continue To Read: Google Is Wasting Your Electricity

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The gorvenment will give out $4 million over 5 years in the GST Offset Package to help Singaporeans to cope with the 2% GST increase that will take effect on 1 July 2007.

This post is showing step by step to claim your money from the government.

Click on the GST Offset Package Overview to understand what is GST Offset Package and the amount you suppose yo receive.

Step 1. Get ready your One Time PIN or SingPass.

Step 2. Click Sign up for my GST Credits to start. You can login using one-time PIN which can be found at the bottom of your GST Offset Package letter or SingPass.

Step 3. Proceed to login using SingPass, because I prefer to use SingPass.

Step 4. Once you successfully login, the GST Credits amount will be shown on the screen. You can use the latest bank account on the system or specific another bank account. Other options are receive cheque or donate to charity. Double check your account number before click on Submit button.

Continue To Read: 5 minutes Guide To Get Money From Singapore Government

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I took this picture while on holiday at Penang, in August 2006.

Penang Hill or Bukit Bendara is a must visit when you visiting Penang. Travelling up in the funicular railway is an enjoyable experience.

There is a Hindu temple at the top of Penang Hill. Most of the Hindu temples are rich colorful decoration and statues of deities.

Don’t miss the lavishly decorated Hindu temple if you plan to visit in future.

Welcome to give your 2 cents.

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Staring from today, I will post Photo Hunters images to this English blog. Previously, I mixed Photo Hunters posts in my Chinese blog.

I think I should not mix different languages in a Chinese site. This is for the convenience of English readers.

To the best of my knowledge it is not advisible to mix different languages on the same websites. Most of the times, the pages on my Chinese blog will automatically set your browser to the correct coding scheme and type font though a charset command written into header of the page.

However, many readers especially from the western countries didn’t install appropriate Chinese type font in their PC. Therefore, what they see in the brower is dummy characters, usually little boxes or question marks.

You’re welcome to visit my Chinese blog and English blog, both will deliver experiences or stories to you.

Come back tomorrow for latest Photo Hunter Theme: Colorful.

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As I’m setting up a Linux CENT OS for an experimental project, I need to install and setup OpenSSH server into the Linux box, for secure and encrypted remote access instead of telnet and ftp.

To run an OpenSSH server, you must first make sure that you have the proper RPM packages installed. The openssh-server package is required and depends on the openssh package.

Firstly, I used yum to get the latest openssh packages.

Continue To Read: Install & Configure OpenSSH

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