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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Power-up/power-down
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Date: 20 Dec 90 05:58:10 GMT
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In article <1493@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes:
>you normally see when you boot up a Sun machine. Set up your crontab to
>look at your mail at half hour intervals when it's on, what difference
>does it make if you're on uunet? Can you not set your connection interval
>at daily or something?

beacause for one it is not good for a PC either to be turned on and
off all the time. The fact that some people do it does not mean it is
good. Second, some of the tasks are set up to be done at 2 am. So if
you never work at 2, your NeXT will never do them if it is always shut
down at 2. Unfortunately it is not possible to turn of the MegaPixel
Display without turning off the cube, otherwise one could turn off the
display for the night (would save engergy and prevent any burn-in).
But as it is, my cube as well as all the SUNs of the departement here
run 24h/day 7day/week. (at least if they don't crash...)

Ronald
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