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

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun September 3 2006 1:49 pm, Mark Wright wrote:
> 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?

I love to keep em up as long as possible myself, with ONE caveat.. as 
long as it has an UPS behind it...
I have my APC UPS connected to mine, with the apcupsd running..

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800