I am enjoying your posts, Heimo. What I recently read somewhere about leaving computers on overnight related to prevention of thermal stress in components transitioning from relative hot to cold, and back. Isn't component failure rather rare these days in either case? When was the last time someone had to get out a soldering iron and replace an open resistor?
I shut down my systems at night because I must keep my utility expenses to a minimum, and because one of my machines creates considerable radio-frequency interference (RFI) to my night-time AM radio listening. Your monitoring of electrical power consumption in specific watts is admirable. Good for you. So many people take energy for granted and waste it wantonly. Along these lines, please allow me to jump to a parallel track and go off topic: Why doesn't the Western World become as technologically energy independent of Mid-East oil as soon as possible? Workarounds abound. We could not become independent of Mid-East oil overnight. We could, however, practice ever-so-much-better conservation of existing energy, while developing yet untapped, alternative energy. One of the first things United States President George W. Bush did NOT do upon taking office was give a thought to the capture of alternative energy when the issue was up for conference. Bush is an oil man. However, would not the oil men be the entrepeneurs best positioned and most capable of leveraging new energy sources to their own advantage? One last thing. Many electrical devices these days run on little power supplies that plug into the wall and remain on 24/7. For instance, my indoor television rabbit ears rely on a relationship with the AC power lines. However, I refuse to leave the antenna's power supply on 24/7. I use power strips that are on/off switchable wherever possible. When I'm not watching the television, which is often (NOT watching it), off goes the supply to the antenna. Oh brother... Jay suburban Philadelphia - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
