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?"

Comments

Re:We power down at weekends

[bigstrat2003]

Once again, like in many instances , Apple got the functionality side right where the rest of the computer industry half assed it... Ha. Tell that to the one-button mouse, the hockey puck mouse, the menu in OS 9 and before where you had to choose the active program's menu from a drop-down list (which remains the single most egregious GUI mistake I've ever seen), the horribly unfriendly-to-service-techs iMac, the PowerMac G4 which took 5-10 minutes just to get the optical drive out, the iPod with its buttons on the scroll wheel, causing you to constantly hit them, the general attitude that the Apple way is better until proven otherwise for at least a couple of years...

Stop drinking the Apple Kool-Aid. Apple has successes, and they have failures, but anyone who thinks they have a substantially higher success than failure rate compared to the rest of the industry is either deluding themselves, or a liar.

Re:Aside from being green... Just let them stay on

[Fred_A]

so, driving uphill uses the same amount of gasoline that driving downhill? Sure. As long as you drive uphill *backwards*.
Actually you'll probably suck some CO2 in while doing so.

Re:Jacobs Engineering

[LinuxLuver]

Smoking? Who would hire people with a time-wasting addiction like that? Read in a story a week ago that in Canada today only 17.5% of adults smoke regularly. Well down on the 28% of a couple of decades ago. Good riddance to the last 17.5%. The smell alone is bad enough....sitting next to one of them on a bus on a wet day can be a real gross-out.....and they PAY to stink like that!!!