[H-GEN] spinning down (longish)

[David Jericho]

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:10:00PM +1000, Trent WADDINGTON wrote:
> Heh. I try to mention "park" whenever someone nags me about turning my
> "screen saver" off.

Heh :) As a matter of principle I enable power saving on all my
computer devices if I can. 

Under XP, I set Hibernate after a period, I set all my drives and
monitors to power down after idle periods, and if my system is stable,
I even do processor slowdown if the system supports it and is stable.
I do the same under Linux, and even my Irix based Indy has power
saving enabled in its limited form.

I'm far from a tree hugging hippy, but if everybody made a small
contribution to energy use in this manner (turning off TVs not in use
and so on), the savings would be astounding.

Even if it doesn't "save" my devices, I do save power, and I can see
it reflected on my power bill.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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