[ale] screen saver eats 15 - 30 watts

[Lightner, Jeff]

Who is Wally and why did you eat him?





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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:33 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] screen saver eats 15 - 30 watts

On 04/02/2013 02:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I miss _REAL_ power switches. You know - when off meant OFF.

I don't miss them... every PSU I purchase has one right on it! :-)

While I get what you're saying, on a more serious note, it is really nice that we can do thing like shut down computers at the end of a day and have them automatically startup and be ready for work the next morning. I used to always keep all systems on all the time so that they were accessible. Hell, these days, if a system I powered off needs to be turned on, I don't even need to be in the same room as it-I just send a WOL command over the network, wait 45 seconds, et voilà, I can do what I need and even shut the thing down remotely.

I would seriously miss that functionality if it disappeared off the face of the planet.

- Mike

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