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Re: Apple?

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From: Chris Brown
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 08:21
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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.

How about inetd? Computers get used by other computers too.

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

What about log structured filesystems, overnight backups, news feeds, etc?
Besides, it takes a fair bit of energy to switch a machine on, and you do
know that the two most dangerous things you can do to a harddisk (short of
violent physical action) are switching it on, and switching it off, right?

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!armltd.co.uk!cbrown
From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
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: 4 Aug 1995 08:21:41 GMT
Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
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