Re: Inactive shutdown service

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:18:50 +0100, nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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>Removing power doesn't cause power surges. It causes loss of power.

Do you know how a Spark Plug works ?
- why does a kettle boil faster just after you switch it of ?
- or a pan of water on an electric stove
(in the USA electric kettles are rare)

>>> Have you considered the wear and tear on the computers from turning them
>>> on and off seventeen times a day?
>>
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>The stresses of applying power to electronic circuits can cause
>damage, but most chips have in-built protection.

And you want to soak test them ?

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>>I am kinda surprised that windows does have a stand by mode but not a
>>shutdown mode... ????!!!!

If they are on a TCP/IP stream you just have a nasty that invokes
ExitWindowsEx (set up a daemon to receive the kill command)

>It does. Click Start. Shut down...
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>Chimaera

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