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

[Scott Castaline]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:45 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 15:26 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > My personal machines are turned off when unused.
> Unused? Wha?!!
> 
> >  The time lost to 
> > turning it on is trivial compared to the energy saved by turning it off.
> 
> The BEST time to power down and unplug is just before the lightning
> storm runs over the house! And by unplug I mean remove ALL cables from
> the back of the system and all network switches.
> 
> I had a nearby lightning strike several years ago that burned up every
> piece of networking equipment in my house and half the systems were
> damaged (system hardware failures over the next 2 months). The strike
> hit a tree about 5 feet from outside wall of my office. I was on the
> inside of that wall! A pair of 40W fluorescent light tubes were nearly
> ruined by the heat caused by the tubes glowing at about 200W melting the
> shrink wrap to them too tight to remove. The EMP induced an estimated
> 3KV in the phone line I was on and an estimated 500V in the cat5e lines
> feeding the network. OUCH!

Snap, Crackle, & Pop. Your network on HVAC /=O
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Scott Castaline aka Bad2theBone

Hey! I was born crazy, what's your excuse?