Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
Did I ask for your grammatical character assassination!? NO! However, ty for correcting my technical assessment of the situation. :) Femme Gerald Waugh wrote: > > On Friday 22 March 2002 11:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > I cannot in all conscience see why your USB Ports would screw up linux. >

Re: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread john rigby
Hi folks, G!!! Turning bright green with envy, descending into purple gloom. It's a great day if my M$ box stays up for 10 hours!! :-) Not counting simple program lockups, of course. Would be interesting to see who has the record on the list for keeping a M

Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 22 March 2002 11:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > I cannot in all conscience see why your USB Ports would screw up linux. > > For logs, try var/logs *its under the root partition*. Therein they may > lie. > > GL? *praying my info here is accurate!* > Femme close the logs (plural) are in /v

Re: Re: RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 22 March 2002 10:43 pm, Greg wrote: > One of the things it does is lock up after it sits for a few days without > being used Another thing is the task bar in KDE disappears if it has not > been rebooted for awhile I am thinking it might have some thing to do with > my USB ports which do

Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
I cannot in all conscience see why your USB Ports would screw up linux. For logs, try var/logs *its under the root partition*. Therein they may lie. GL? *praying my info here is accurate!* Femme Greg wrote: > > One of the things it does is lock up after it sits for a few days without being u

RE: Re: RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-22 Thread Greg
One of the things it does is lock up after it sits for a few days without being used Another thing is the task bar in KDE disappears if it has not been rebooted for awhile I am thinking it might have some thing to do with my USB ports which do not work I am too new to Linux I dont know where th

Re: RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-21 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:49 pm, Greg wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Greg wrote: > >> >%_I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could > >> > get was a week or to two weeks then the system would either be locked > >> > or would act funny until I rebooted Greg > I dont k

RE: RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-21 Thread Greg
I dont know what to check Everything works good for awhile Any ideas Greg Gerald Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Greg wrote: >> >%_I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could get was a >week or to two weeks then the system would either be locke

RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-21 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Greg wrote: > >%_I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could get was a >week or to two weeks then the system would either be locked or would act funny until >I rebooted Greg Then there is something wrong with your system. I have systems that have b

Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-21 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
FemmeFatale wrote: > > *S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P > > IMHO, leave it on. Less stress on the HW. I'd leave it on as each time you power down you are causing the components in use to cool and shrink. When you power up again they expand again and of course heat up. Th

RE: Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-20 Thread Greg
I never had much luck leaving the system running The most i could get was a week or to two weeks then the system would either be locked or would act funny until I rebooted Greg FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >*S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P > >IMHO, leave it

Re: [newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-20 Thread FemmeFatale
*S* old debate...don't stir up the old hardware geeks :P IMHO, leave it on. Less stress on the HW. Femme Stojs wrote: > > I know this is out of topic, but with linux I have the choice not to > turn the computers off or restart them to often. > > What is best for the psu, having the computer

[newbie] OT: saving the power supply unit

2002-03-19 Thread Stojs
I know this is out of topic, but with linux I have the choice not to turn the computers off or restart them to often. What is best for the psu, having the computer running constantly or turning it off everytime you donĀ“t use it (several times a day)? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy you