Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 16:30 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> > Anyway, far to many "PCs" are left on over-night. Most (99%?)
>> > of them has no users during night. It's a real waste of energy.
>>
>> I have noticed this too at most of my customers.  Except for rare cases
>> where I'm running something on my computer overnight, I shut it off every
>> night.
>
> Even better these days is many machine support wake on lan with their
> integrated adapters. I no leave my machine off at home. When I need it,
> I log into my home server, send the "magic packet" and after a minute my
> home machine is accessible!

I can't do this with my work PC. Moreover, it takes longer than a minute to 
boot, and longer still to open all the programs I use.


>> The first thing I do when I come in in the morning is to turn on the
>> computer and monitor.  By the time I take off my jacket, put stuff away, 
>> go
>> get a soda from the fridge, etc, the machine is all booted.  No time 
>> wasted.
>
> Have you tried hibernate? This is one area Windows is still king, a fast
> windows machine can be ready to use after hibernating in around 10-15
> seconds, barely enough time to take your jacket off. (FWIW my ubuntu box
> takes about a minute to come out of hibernate, not bad, but still very
> slow compared to windows).

Hibernation generally has a bad reputation, and I found that the system is 
more prone to crashing after coming out of hibernation. YMMV.

Vitaliy 

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