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Do Any Companies Power Down at Night?
An anonymous reader writes "My Health Sciences Campus has about 8,000 desktop computers, and on any given night about half of them are left on. I know this because I track all the MAC addresses in case there is a virus outbreak. Aside from the current fad of 'being green', has anyone had any success in encouraging users to power-down at night? You could potentially eliminate running bots, protect yourself from the next virus outbreak, keep your data safe, etc. Do security concerns and power consumption issues matter enough to do this?"
The top three "energy efficiency" people are the people taht never show up for work and leave their computers off all the time.
Hmmm, lets see if a small amendment to the metric could circumvent that problem.... no, you're right it's an impossibly difficult flaw to fix.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Microsoft seems to have figured it out. They shut down my computer for me quite often to do updates.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
False certainty characterises a bit too much of dialogue on the internet, I think, and makes it hard to be careful and humble in discussion. If I felt more sure of what I were saying, I'd have phrased it differently :) Presumably :P
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
I'm against anyone working after 2 p.m., myself.
Obviously, he works for the NSA.
"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Peak Performance
Great idea because access card systems are specifically designed to be "hacked"
Why not use the "correct" for for actual viruses (biological ones), and 'Virii' for Computer viruses? I mean, it's not like computer technology ever created new words, or new meanings for old words....
God is dead -- Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead -- God
Zombie Nietzsche lives! -- Zombie Nietzsche
They really should get their own computer instead of sneaking into a public school. Do you have any idea what kind of trouble that can get you into these days?
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
Yes, a lesson about stupid IT departments and their apathy towards anybody getting work done.
I think he should go the whole way and call them viriises. It's technology after all.
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Everyone knows that most of the students sit up all night slashdotting, playing WoW, facebooking, digging. The night is the best time to have some "quality time" with you and your computer!
I've long had a habit of pressing the save shortcut after every change I make. A sentence just doesn't feel 'finished' until I've pressed the save key...
I guess your right because every thing works as fucking advertised on computers. There has never been an issue as all in the implementation of anything and if they say it is X the by god it is fucking X.
Or could it be that the shit doesn't always work the way it is supposed to and sometimes it turns on for no apparent reason. By golly, I don't know, I'm just some dumbass, but I have seen others in this thread talking about very similar stuff. And I assume that all their problems is me not knowing what I was doing too.