<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 04/02/2013 02:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> I miss _REAL_ power switches. You know - when off meant OFF.<br>
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</div>I don't miss them... every PSU I purchase has one right on it! :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Every PSU I've used in the past 10 years that had a switch on the unit, I discovered the switch was there to reset the PSU from when it hung during a power blip.<br>
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While I get what you're saying, on a more serious note, it is really<br>
nice that we can do thing like shut down computers at the end of a day<br>
and have them automatically startup and be ready for work the next<br>
morning. I used to always keep all systems on all the time so that they<br>
were accessible. Hell, these days, if a system I powered off needs to be<br>
turned on, I don't even need to be in the same room as it—I just send a<br>
WOL command over the network, wait 45 seconds, et voilà, I can do what I<br>
need and even shut the thing down remotely.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Very useful. But if the systems actually _worked_ better, powering them down at night then backup in the morning wouldn't be such a chore. Maybe we need a tiny screaming fast SSD just for hibernate mode - do a RAM dump and kill power. On power up, reload the RAM and reset the clock. Make that the default power off mode and force a fresh start with keystrokes.<br>
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I would seriously miss that functionality if it disappeared off the face<br>
of the planet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Remote relays that use 0.00000W while idle can flip a switch to turn on the server. Still gotta have _something_ running to manage access to the relay bank. That would surely call for a non-upgradable, full of security holes embedded system :-)<br>
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