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- From: keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore)
- Subject: Re: leave OS/2 running - the monitor too?
- Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
- Date: 27 Dec 92 20:47:04 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.204704.8754@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <4706@drsrv1.hmi.de> <Bzpsq1.A80@world.std.com> <8216@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8216@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>making smogulous smog you can't see, and if you're not making smogulous
- >>smog then you're flooding people from their homelands and poisoning the
- >>waterways.
-
- >In article <Bzpsq1.A80@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writesin reply:
- >Standard enviro-weenie scare tactics.
- >The simple fact is that the computer running all night uses less electricity
- >than many other things that we take for granted as running all night...like
- >refrigerators, air conditioners,...
-
- My God man! You are actually advocating the needless death of billions
- of harmless little electrons. With your kind of thinking we will
- certainly be completely out of electrons within a few decades. What
- would we do then? Have you considered how those electrons feel about
- this barbaric treatment? Such thoughtless waste; and the complete
- extinction of one species of sub-atomic particles.
-
- BTW I've been having trouble with the screen saver "Yawza" popping up at
- inappropriate times and hanging my system. I've found that "Shutdown
- Plus" won't work with Yawza running. Am I alone in this? I also find
- that Shutdown Plus is so slow that it is too much of a bother. Perhaps
- there is a third factor invloved that is causing both these programs
- to act up. So I just leave it on and turn down the screen brightness.
- I'm concerned about the long-term wear and tear on the potentiometer.
-
- Keith R. Scidmore
-