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From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Disc analyser news update
On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
Leaving a computer running 24/7 may not harm the hardware as much,
but it
harms the evironment and your electricity bill.
That's not relevant here; I run servers that are used by people in
other places. My power bill is consistently about $400-500/mo, and
that's a great deal of consolidation and optimization. Some may
whine, but that's still a lot cheaper than two racks' worth of colo
space, and I can work on things without getting dressed and leaving
the house.
So in the face of that, leaving my desktop machine on doesn't make
any real difference. Further, leaving it on (as I mentioned earlier)
means I can get to it from other places, which I frequently need to do.
Ahh, in that case I see why you leave it on :)
We always shut
our computers
down at work at the end of the day, or when they are finished with.
I never
leave my laptop on all the time, since I only use it a few hours
each day. I
certainly disconnect from the internet when I don't need website,
Gopher or
BBS access. Less chance of a virus infecting my laptop then.
I run UNIX; that addresses the virus problem. ;)
Hehe :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk