Re: [vulture@aoi.dyndns.org: Bug#100744: Binary should be in /usr/bin, since it's useful to non-admins.]
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:37:14AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> Oddly enough, a "large" portion of the cost of a traceroute is the
> depreciation of the PC, if it's a fairly cutting edge box. If you assume a
> $4000 machine that loses half it's value in 6 months, that'd be about 0.77
> cents per minute (a cent is a hundredth of a dollar), which makes
> depreciation about five hundred thousand times more expensive than the
> network connectivity cost, or about ten times the cost of the electricity
> to run the box.
Interestingly, the going rate for hourly charged internet connectivity seems
to be around 2 cents per minute here in australia.
Ofcourse, once you start pricing connections that are up all the time, the
cost is much lower than that. And most plans are charged by data rather than
time, but still...
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
http://svana.org/kleptog/
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