On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:44:02AM +0000, root wrote: > this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies > staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can > we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself?
*sigh* You seem to have completely missed the point of Tom's post. To summarize: At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more resources than just leaving it on). Is that still the case? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery