Re: Apple?

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 19:44

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In article <3vqspe$s0p@navajo.gate.net>, Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:

>You don't have to sit at a machine to use it.  If there are processes 
>running that are supposed to do things, then it's being used by someone.

Yeah, if you think "bin" and "daemon" are "someone"...

>If there's nobody using the machine, you should turn it off and save some 
>energy...

What a bogus idea -

I've got email coming in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...
I should shut down the machine and just let email bounce? There are
students logging in at odd hours to compile programs, read mail/news,
write documents, etc... ftp and www usage is not limited to some 9-to-5 
schedule. The German and Australian netizens who download files from 
here "in the middle of the night" might also take issue with your idea...

If a Linux machine is *really* idle, the monitor shuts down and the
CPU uses the idle instruction... as a result, it runs cooler and consumes 
less power than a dos or windoze box...

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 3 Aug 1995 19:44:14 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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