20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
11:14 a.m.
On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
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.
Oh...you
shut your computers down?? Wow, it still amazes me that
some people do that.
I leave my desktop machine on 24x7 because I never know when I
might need something that's on it if I'm away from home. I
frequently log into it from my cell phone via ssh when I'm out and
about if I need to look for something in my notes or whatever.
And (being practical) I'm sitting in front of it nearly all the
time anyway, and it's much less wear and tear on the hardware than
constantly powering up and down.
Leaving a computer running 24/7 may not harm the hardware as much,
but it
harms the evironment and your electricity bill. 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. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL