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From: apctrc!zjat02@uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Screens: to shut off or not to...
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Date: 13 Jan 89 02:10:10 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 98, message 13 of 13

Depending on the type of Monitor, it is better to turn it off and back on
every weekend/night.  The Ikegami(sp) had a poor MTBF rating for the power
supply and a not much better one for the Monitor itself.  We had Ickky's
dying after about a year because we left them on with screenlock running.
Now we turn them off a night and on weekends.  Screenlock is run when
user's log off and a screenblank like substitute is being written to blank
and lock idle screens after so many minutes....

-tank-
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