My husband has been working for MiserWare since last May, and I finally downloaded and tried out their beta program!

MiserWare is a local company, situated in Blacksburg, VA near Virginia Tech, which was started by one of the CS professors at VT and his graduate students. Their products, MicroMiser and ServerMiser, can reduce the amount of energy your system uses up to 35% without sacrificing performance. Other methods of power management that come native to Windows or can be installed on Linux either don’t save as much energy or have noticeable impacts on your machine performance. MicroMiser has been designed for individual machines, and ServerMiser has been designed for data centers.

Right now, if you are running Linux or Windows, you can try MicroMiser for free! They just launched their Windows beta a couple days ago and the Linux version about six months ago. I started using MicroMiser on the PC I have in the graduate lab, and the screen shot above is MicroMiser telling me how much energy I am saving.

They are really trying to recruit as many people as possible to use their beta version of MicroMiser. They are even giving away iPod Nanos to the first 50 people to earn 225 “recruiting points”, and will give away Eee PCs to the top recruiters at the end of the recruiting period. I have already secured myself one of the iPod Nanos, (YAY! I never win anything!!!) and I’m working on the Eee PC!

If you would like to try MicroMiser, help the guys at MiserWare test their product, and help me earn an Eee PC, you should go to this link:

https://secure.miserware.com/account/signup/?ref=slegogudrasubresestipretaphesp

You’ll have to sign the license agreement, and then you can download the appropriate version of the software and follow the (easy) installation instructions. My install only took about 30 seconds to complete. If for any reason you have problems installing it, or just have questions, you can email them at support@miserware.com .

Really, this might be the easiest way ever to reduce your carbon footprint. So try it!