To turn off, or not to turn off?
Some of you have mentioned that you turn off your computer and/or modem every day. I never turn anything off, except in the very rare cases where Linux locks up. I started doing this back when the ...
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Used to be that you would leave things on because the collective effects of transient surges from turning them off and on repeatedly would be detrimental. Not sure that's so these days since the protection is a bit better, especially things with internal batteries.
I turn off what I can at night, but leave things on during the day just for a time savings thing, if anything.
MarkJFine wrote:I turn off what I can at night, but leave things on during the day just for a time savings thing, if anything.
Thanks for your reply. I think It may have made a difference 35 years ago, it's probably a wash now, as far as equipment life. I'm just lazy, so I leave everything on.
Transients were **bleep** on CRT monitors. Burn-in problems on early CRTs were even worse. I remember I would go through monitors about every other year, and usually right in the middle of the final stage of a software release: while writing the docs and help files. Not fun.
Of course, newer flat screens have different issues, but transients aren't one of them.
MarkJFine wrote:Transients were **bleep** on CRT monitors. Burn-in problems on early CRTs were even worse. I remember I would go through monitors about every other year, and usually right in the middle of the final stage of a software release: while writing the docs and help files. Not fun.
Of course, newer flat screens have different issues, but transients aren't one of them.
At first, all of our operator consoles were 27" CRTs that weighed a ton, and they were always located at the top of least two flights of stairs Even though they were powered from an always on the inverter UPS, and they were almost never turned off, they failed quite often. Everybody in the department breathed a sigh of relief when the much lighter flat screens came out.
