On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:14:29AM -0400, Derek Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday, Jerry Feldman gleaned this insight:
> > Or you have some corporate directive come down saying that ALL
> > workstations must be physically turned off every night. If I could draw, I'd
> > draw you the bucket :-)
>
> Well, I'd just assume leave them on too, but you have to admit leaving
> 1000 computers on 24x7 does consume a lot of power. This argument makes
> no sense from a security perspective, but certainly from a cost savings
> one.
I think modern computers handle this much better. Monitors switch
to standby, hard drives spin down, even CPUs can go into a low power
mode. With newer equipment, I think it is much more reasonable to
leave the computer running - as long as you aren't running Windows, of
course, in which case you probably want to reboot every once in a
while anyway. :-) And, of course, locking the screen is terribly
important if you're going to leave your machine on.
--
Bob Bell Compaq Computer Corporation
Software Engineer 110 Spit Brook Rd - ZKO3-3/U14
TruCluster Group Nashua, NH 03062-2698
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