Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more > resources than just leaving it on). Is that still the case?
This cannot be right. We are not talking about planes taking off here. I don't see how you can brun off all the watts the machine use during 16 hours outside work-time in the seconds you use to shutting down and powering back up. Why would the machine need more power then and less later? Preben -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.» - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/
