On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Ron Johnson wrote: >--} >--} >> An ordinary user might not have resources to have a machine > running --} >> 24/7. >--} > >--} > Why not? >--} > >--} >--} 1. Because it is expensive and waste of resources. >--} >--} 2. If you are running a machine 24/7, the room better have good air >--} conditioning to reduce all the heat generated. Air conditioning a room >--} could be very expensive depending on where you live. >--} >--} 3. Some people do not have power 24/7. While it may be surprising to > people --} in developed countries, this is very much true. There are places > where --} power cuts of 5-6 hours a day is very common. If you happen to > live in one --} of these places it simply is not possible to run a machine > 24/7. --} >--} raju
We only have solar power, so cannot leave a machine powered up 24/7, or anything on standby for that matter. Everything, when not in use, has to be turned off at the wall. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. __________________________________Martial *********************************************** Debian, just the best way to create magic _______________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
