From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 22:53:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C64016A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:53:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE2243D39 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:53:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2286460EA; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:53:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44984-04; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:53:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0266660E7; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:53:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <42054E6F.3030505@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:53:35 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peterhin References: <200502051745.25937.hindrich@worldchat.com> In-Reply-To: <200502051745.25937.hindrich@worldchat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:53:37 -0000 Peterhin wrote: > Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or > is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? > I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the > circuitry to leave it running. > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated > This question is better served on Google. BTW - if you're advanced enough to install and live with FreeBSD, you ought to know the answer to that one. -- Best regards, Chris If it weren't for the opinion polls we'd never know what people are undecided about.