Which reminds me of one of my beloved taglines: * And why does my computer suddenly think it's April? *
On a less serious note, based on the impression that it's indeed a stand-alone unit: Why is that thing _running_ at all at 4:40 AM and when you sleep ? At least I prefer to shut tools and machines OFF when I don't need/use them - the chain saw, the motor of the car, and the 'puter. Though I learn each day anew why there is an understandable reason for so many of the otherwise so wellbehaving Linusians to fall into the built-in traps of wasteproduction(*): the often endless pain in the sitting region to start the dang thing up again - mount count reached, force filesystem check: And there it goes for the full 60 GB. BTW, _once_ I stumbled (per pure chance and hazard) into the place where this mount counter is set, gladly changed it from 20 (yes, that _was_ the default) to 99 (ouf, I dare say, still a "safe and secure" setting); but one bad day I did a new install on that box: and _never_ever_ found back the hint where this "secret" sacred place was, despite of dozens of HOwTOs, hundreds of mans, thousand of scribbled notes and well-printed articles to read. Anyone who knows and _dares_ to tell about ?! // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-09-27 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net (*) For the consumption of "sleeping" electronic gear almost the full capacity of two of the GW-class nuclear plants is needed in Germany alone. The Linux box here with screen and peripherals, when in "sleep" mode draws 33 W (rather precisely what the ol'Dos box takes - 34 W - to _run_ while I write and send this mail), with all buttons pushed well to OFF it _still_ eats 7 W (the dang ATX power unit). Go count what that gives if everyone on earth had such a nice Linux box like the one I have, with "green" labels all over and in it. -hc - 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
