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On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:29:36PM +0100, M.Blackmore wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:51 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > Seriously though, why is everyone still rebooting? > > Because for a home network of adsl router, firewall, switch, home > server, 4 desktops in operation most days with speakers and monitors, 2 > printers, scanner ... the electricity hit of not switching them off when > no one is using them is Quite Significant!! Suspend-to-Disk. Uses no power, starts back up in a couple of seconds, and everything’s exactly as you left it. Rebooting is for kernel updates and new hardware, but that doesn’t mean all your machines need to be powered up all the time. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html