Wanna know how random men are?

This is the proposed power saving in the new standard desktop environment:

10 minutes – screen saver
15 minutes – hard drive turns off
20 minutes – monitor turns off
30 minutes – system standby
2 hours – hibernation

Bear in mind the screen saver has the company logo and goes on about how we have values such as honest, integrity, doing right by the taxpayer, yadda yadda, propaganda my colleagues say.

From: Michelle McClellan
Sent: Friday, 7 December 2007 7:49 a.m.
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Shouldn’t everyone be moving to LCD monitors anyway if we want to be a carbon neutral public service?

We aren’t worried and going to delay the monitor just so people can see the screensaver are we?

Howabout 15 mins the screen goes to sleep? Seems strange to have the harddrive sleep before the screen just because it “might take a while” to come back.

Don’t worry, I’m not trying to be a pain in the arse on purpose, I’m generally quite agreeable. I’m just making sure we have thoroughly questioned everything we do.

Cheers,
Michelle
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Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 3:24 p.m.
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If you turn away from your PC to read a paper or document it’s amazing how quickly a 10 min screen saver kicks in. Older screens (not flat ones) take a bit of time to warm up again after the mouse wiggle, the screen saver is instantaneous. 20 mins in it is safe to assume the user is probably away from their desk, at a meeting etc.

A good balance would be:-

10 mins screen saver
20 mins power off screen

Those would be my recommendations.

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From: Michelle McClellan
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 2:18 p.m.
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Awesome

I guess we need to weigh up what is more important, the screensaver (which people don’t see, because they aren’t at their PC’s anyway) or energy saving.

Cheers,
Michelle

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Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 2:16 p.m.
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I’ve asked L*** H****** how we should work this setting and the screen saver in together to best effect.

Regards
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From: Michelle McClellan
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 2:14 p.m.
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Would you consider 10 minutes too aggressive?

People I have spoken to don’t consider 10 minutes aggressive.

Cheers,
Michelle

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Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 2:13 p.m.
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How do those settings align with those that are in the paper for the Carbon Reduction Plan?

I suggest that a 5 min screen power off is too aggressive and will annoy. There is scope to re-evaluate and reduce time on all the settings later if required.

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Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 1:51 p.m.
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Thanks Michelle for your comments.

Gareth – can the G3 meeting this morning it was agreed to adopt Michelle’s recommendation listed. Can this be implemented?

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From: Michelle McClellan
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 1:32 p.m.
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Hi

I think it looked really awesome

My only recommendation is that after 5 or 10 minutes the screen turns off and the computer becomes “locked”. The user will have to log in again when they wake the screen. They should lock for security anyway.

There is no difference in response/come-back times between the waking up the screen and coming out of screen saver mode – both just happen at the shake of the mouse.

What you effectively end up with is a black screen saver (the screen is asleep) that doesn’t use as nearly as much power as a real screen saver would (as it doesn’t require the screen to be awake).

Cheers,
Michelle
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Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 1:26 p.m.
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As you will be aware the Ministry is one of the six core public service agencies that will lead the way in achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2012.

Note: the Ministry is expected to have an approved carbon reduction plan in place by 1 February 2008

Many thanks.

Random as, I need a second opinion that my logic is flawed. Is my logic flawed? Do we need to be carbon neutral by the year 2012 like the Prime Minister said, or do we need to make sure people can see the propaganda screen saver for 10 minutes, even though their screen saver is probably on cos they aren’t at their fecking computer?

Ack, just thinking about gave me a bloody nose bleed! O_O My God, thank god I wore black. I think I finally had my brain explode. Oh God, and I just got my desk cleaned too!

I’ve decided to bow out of the argument. you can’t argue with men, especially ones who see the word “aggressive” and go into a panic and think they might get into trouble (awwwwww) for being aggressive. How else are you going to get change if you don’t make a change?? I tell you John, that stuff on that Herald site last night was so true, we are so anti-change in NZ and its the older people in charge that are making it hard for the young people like us to drive this country forward. (Generally old people are hotties, but not in NZ).

A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.