Likewise here, wondering if the external drive not showing up on the desktop problem discussed earlier might have been due to putting my machine to sleep nightly....I sleep it during the week & shut down on weekends...just curious & anxious to avoid deliberately contributing to my own headaches, if at all possible...TIA, Cathy
> ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of George > H.Yankey > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:24 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: energy saver setting? [bcc][faked-from] > > Jerry, your statement that "waking from sleep causes big troubles" got > my attention. We seldom turn our EMac off at night but do put it to > sleep several times each day. Does this damage our system in some way? > We have enough computer problems at best without deliberately creating > more . > George Yankey > On Aug 18, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > > > Probably the biggest question to ask an answer to from yourself is 'Do > > you intend to turn it off at night?' > > > > This will make the rest of things fall into place, because waking from > > sleep is the biggest source of troubles so far in the Mac OS-X world. > > (Some USB hubs and / or external FireWire drives do not play well with > > being put to sleep --- this is one place where Apple does not have > > much control over the hardware hooked up to the machine). > > > > Once you decide that, then the rest is straight forward (I am being a > > bit lazy at this time o' the day, finding thing out before eyeing the > > list of possible options). > > > > Jerry > > > > > > On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:38 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: > > > >> Do you all have any suggestions for energy saver settings on an iMac > >> 2 gigaherz G5? I've heard different ideas about whether it's better > >> to keep the hard drive running all the time or shut it down, and I > >> also would value suggestions about the other possible energy saver > >> settings--automatic computer and display shutdowns, etc. The default > >> settings didn't seem to make much sense. thanks--Ben Zion Hershberg > >> > >> ps: the G5 is living up to my high expectations > >> > >> > >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > >> | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > >> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------- > > "All else failed, ..., so, ..., so I did it, I read the directions. > > (silence) > > "Ewwww, gross. > > "Yeah, I know. > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050818/eee13fd3/attachment.html
