On Tuesday 27 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > J Sloan wrote: > > Your microsoft background is showing again ;) > > > > Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days > > uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little > > more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month > > uptimes. At work we tend to have the 400-600 day uptimes in the server > > room. > > I run servers 24x7, but I shut my desktop machine down when it's not > being used to conserve power. I used to rarely reboot my laptop, just > suspend/resume it, but 10.2 totally broke suspend/resume so now I'm > forced to actually shut it down.
Well the way I look at it is any "wasted power" goes into the house as heat, which, in Seattle would be welcome. Its actually easier on the hard drive to run a few extra hours then to spin up cold. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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