In <[email protected]>, on 08/18/2014
   at 04:14 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:

>Obviously there must have been some origin for the dire warnings 
>and tradition passed down to IT staff,

Power off is spread over a series of stges, intended to minimize
damage. Two obvious issues are:

 1. Surges generated by cutting off everything at once

 2. Thermal damage due to cutting off fans prematurely.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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