[ale] uptime, cool--New topic, keeping power on

[Mark Wright]

Pretty cool.

I like to display uptime for my desktops occasionally.  My ti PB is  
59 days right now and nagging me to do a software update.   My Ubuntu  
desktop is over 100 days.

This brought to mind another thread idea.  I used to reboot the  
windows machines I was forced to use at least once a day usually more  
even if there was nothing wrong.  That plus a mixed feeling about the  
old idea of power cycling equipment being bad has given me this  
irrational desire to keep my personal machines up for as long as I can.

What do ya'll (a little southern lingo there) think about keeping  
equipment up versus powering it off after use.  I have heard and made  
all the reliability issues and personally think that the electronics  
runs just as long either way.  ( I do hardware maintenance so I have  
seen it all)

Since we Linux users don't have to clean up our OS's memory with  
frequent reboots what is the case for keeping it up or powering it down?


Mark



On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

>    6:13pm  up 300 days,  7:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.95, 0.95,  
> 0.91
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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