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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 06:32:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: |
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>> and what is the advantage? Why do you keep your computer running, wasting |
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>> energy? Is there any good reason? |
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> I travel a lot. It is convenient to have a server to serve my e-mail |
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> and personal files. There are certain (financial/identification/etc.) |
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> documents that I would prefer not store on someone else's server. |
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> And considering the intrusive border checks now that US is |
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> implementing, I would also prefer not to have those files on my laptop |
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> or on a thumbdrive. |
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> Besides, it also is a in-facing file/print server for the family LAN, |
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> so not having to keep turning it off and on is rather convenient. |
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> You may disagree, but considering that the box is almost 10 years old |
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> and doesn't actually use all that much power idling, for the moment |
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> being I think it is acceptable. |
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> Cheers, |
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> W |
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And some would also argue that cycling power on and off is actually bad |
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for the rig as well. Keeping things at a constant temp is better than |
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fluctuating temps. The old expanding and contracting of material |
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argument. Sort of strange that computers that run a lot last a loooong |
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time. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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