On 03-Nov-99, Ian Greenway wrote:
> Someone called Patrick Ford didn't like my suggestion..
>
>>> probably do it good to reboot every so often. I mean, you switch it
>>> off when you go to bed do you?
>>
>> What ! And lose 8 hours of Amiga team's RC5 key cracking?
>
> You manage to get 8 hours sleep a night?
> Lucky man! ;-)
rarely. I used that figure since it seems to be a standard in modern western
folklore.
>
>> What an outrageous idea! Don't you leave the RC5 client running
>> overnight? WIth either a DPMS capable monitor, or a manual poke to the
>> monitor switch, power consumption is neglible.
>
> I don't fancy sleeping next to my computer which whirrs away with a
> fan and HDD.
Do the same as people with a snoring human or dog in the bed with them do--go
sleep on the couch. I know pelnty of people who are instantly jarred awake if
power failure in the nighyt silences their computers.
>By the time I add up the (external) psu's for the modem,
> cdrom, zip drive, speakers, etc its probably well over 50W, not much I
> grant you, but not "negligible" either over 8 hours.
What on earth would you have those operating during your sleep for? No
wonder you think computers are too noisy to sleeep with. (Hint: eject all
the music CDs from your stacker before you try to sleep.)
>
>> I believe too, that never switching a computer off prolongs its
>> life--less thermal stress and /maybe/ less HD activity per day..
>
> Very questionable.
But corroborated by a LOT of anecdotal evidence.
> The point of my earlier mail was to say "whether you like it or not,
> the whole installation process must be followed, MUI, libs, and all,
> AND the reboot before you can start bitching about errors."
Quite right. An occasional Version xx.library after a new installation
would demonstrate that, even after AVAIL FLUSH.
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