On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:13, Peter Chubb wrote: > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic > Peter> grade home computer powered up continually. I have one of > Peter> lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards. > > > I have one of those too ... it's been turned on now for 18 months. > > I've found that most of my machines have died in one of two > circumstances: > -- nearby lightning strike, or > -- turning on the power. > > I can't do much about the first, but the easiest way to fix the > second is never to power down the machine.
I also run all my systems 24/7, hell even my windoze boxes have uptime to boast about, (150 days at one point). Unless I need to change hardware I generally dont reboot. powering down means that when I want to use my computer it takes 30seconds+ to get it going, instead of moving my mouse to wake up the monitor and I'm there. I find that if a computer system is running, and the OS doesnt crash, nothing will go wrong. (whoever heard of a video card dying while in use, that wasn't overclocked, or already faulty.) As Peter said, its when you power up that things start to go wrong. -- Cheers, Patrick Kelso Lujan GNUPG FingerPrint C8F0 1635 60D9 F119 6736 FC23 D6F6 611E 4497 6E8B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
