Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: shutting down In-Reply-To: <20010329.000143.-163043.1.domanspc@juno.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robert W Moss wrote: > Actually the real savings in keeping your computer and monitor on all the > time is in the time that the power supplies will wear out. [cut] A secondary consideration is debris drawn into the case from the outside by cooling fans. For instance, I have indoor cats, so there is cat hair all over everything, and the longer my system is on over the long term, the more likely it is that hair and dust wil be drawn inside. Because I usually use my computer only a couple of hours a day, I turn it off in between. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett