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From: Patrick Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 03 November 1999 08:23
Subject: [netconnect] Re: Archive error in V� update(31/1 0/99)
> On 03-Nov-99, Ian Greenway wrote:
>
> > Someone called Patrick Ford didn't like my suggestion..
> >
> >> 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.
I'd go with the 'on all the time is better' camp too. We have numerous PCs
at work, from lowly 486-66s right up to PentiumIII-500s, and most of them
are hooked up to big expensive mass spectrometers, extraction systems and
the like, so run round the clock all year. Over the past 12 years I've seen
hardly any failures on those machines, but on desktop computers which are
shut down at night there seems to be a high proportion of cooling fan, HD
and especially power supply failures.
My miggy runs round the clock too, mostly battling orcs and dragons on my
behalf. And maybe one day it'll start cracking RC5 codes ;-)
Totty <8^)
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