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->From: dana@domingo.concordia.ca.concordia.ca (Dana Echtner)
->	Leave the computer on all the time. :)))))
	Hehe, I've been rather hesitant about that since I haven't got
any electricity bills yet. My computer is on for a major part of the
day though but for a dumb reason (my radio and computer share the same
speakers). Annoyingly I haven't figured out how to get linux to
powerdown the hard-drive. 

->the computer on and all those cold circuit board have to re-heat - and 
->then cool down and the reheat next time you turn it on..... 
	Now I got a good reason!

->From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
->Thank goodness for power bars.
	Hey thanks for the advice, I'll part with the $5. Come to
think of it my appartment doesn't even have earth grounding(took apart
the socket and counted the wires) but the landlord isn't impressed. Is
that legal? I mean, having an electrical installation with no grounding?

->With "energy-saving" monitors the sequence is a bit different;
->- turn on monitor
->- monitor shuts itself because there's no input signal
->- turn on computer
->- startup screen is presumably displayed, but you'll never know for sure
->- monitor turns on
	Yeah! My monitor actually first gives a warning and goes to
stand-by for about a minute then powers down. I thought this might be
the reason the monitor manufacturers recommended turning on the
computer than the monitor (to lessen the complaints from confused customers).

->From: kwb_cha@alcor.concordia.ca (Bobby Chan)
->	Hummm, I've always learned to turn the computer on first and then 
->the monitor. I'm sure that this is what companies and manufacturers 
->suggest. I think there's something to do with surges and stuff.
	Well lets assume the monitor causes a surge. It would seem
that the computer is more at risk if it is on than if not. So maybe
that would mean turn on the monitor first then the computer.
	Navin.

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->From: Alan Shutko <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>
->Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
[snip]
->I always thought that it was because the monitor puts a huge drain on
->the power, and you'd rather isolate your delicate electronics from
->such an occurrence.  For power off, turning off the monitor when the
->computer is on might lead to a surge in the computer, also to be avoided.

->Nowadays, I suppose the power is plentiful enough that it doesn't
->matter.  Or computer manufacturers have forgotten....

->--
->Alan Shutko <ats@hubert.wustl.edu> - The Few, the Proud, the Remaining.
->A Thousand Points of Broccoli

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->From: dpeschel@u.washington.edu (Derek Peschel)
->Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
[snip]
->Years ago, I had a friend whose family owned a TRS-80 Model III.  He told me
->that pushing the reset button sent a power spike through the disk drives,
->which would clobber any disks that happened to be in the drives.

->Probably, Commodore's advice dates from a time when computers had more quirks
->in their designs (like the TRS-80's disk drive quirk).  Same with the advice
->not to put diskettes on top of monitors.

->-- Derek