I really doubt that a computer running for a month or more is going to cause a fire. Especially since servers run for years and don't cause fires. Fans are designed for this task. However, I'll do some follow up research and report back if anything is different.
It is however irresponsible of you to leave a computer on while on holiday. You could have conserved energy consumption by turning it off. Please think of the environment in the future. See how this can all be turned back on you? Instead of automatically blaming people for things that you don't know much about, it would be advisable to instead just state facts. These are the facts based on your email: 1) You went on vacation for a undetermined (per the email) amount of time. Holiday can be 3 days or 3 years. 2) You came back to where your mac is, and the fans were on high. 3) You are blaming Growl for this. That's it, that's all you provided to us as actual information to help you here. Let's try sticking to the facts here. If Growl actually caused your machine to run for a long period of time with fans on high, I want to know how you determined this. If it's simply "I stopped Growl and it stopped running the fans on high" that's not enough to blame Growl. Something else could have been stopping at the same time. I don't believe Growl did this. We haven't received a report like this while the current release is out (or any report in my memory to be honest). If this was an issue, more people who had left their computers on while on vacation would have contacted us. You're the only one. This is not to say that I don't believe that you believe this is the case, or that I'm calling you a liar. I'm simply pointing out that this is highly unlikely based on all of the actual evidence presented to us. Give us something we can work with. Chris Forsythe Growl Project Lead On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, DanHodgson <[email protected]>wrote: > I have just returned from a holiday to notice that my iMacs fan was > running and making a loud noise. I realised that the software called > 'growl' was causing this, i'm sure you will agree its is highly > dangerous that growl can have the permission to control you mac even > in safe mode, it could of easily caused a fire! VERY UNHAPPY WITH > GROWL! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
