In article <esooter.726088820@yacht>, esooter@ee.fit.edu (Eric Sooter) writes:
>In <C04tGK.12s@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:
>
>>What's the current wisdom regarding leaving a mac running 100% o' the
>>time? That's how I treat my Sun at work, to no ill effect. However,
>>we have a script on the Sun which reboots the machine (ala cron) once
>>a week to clean up the file system, etc. If there is no problem with
>>leaving the mac up, is there a way to have it automatically reboot now
>>and again, or is that even necessary?
>>--
>
> My corporate experience with Mac II family is that leave them on unless
>you know there is a thunderstorm coming. Since we are in Florida, you would think that would be quite often, but in years of use (5+), I have had no baked
>Macs. I highly recommend a screen saver, i.e., After Dark, etc.
>
>regards,
>els
I do the same thing, but I found a problem with a screen saver. Sometimes
After Dark puts the read/write head on the disk for no apparrent reason
except to load the animations. Seems kinda pointless. It's bad enough that
the thing is spinning 24 hours/day, but to have it reading and writing when
it doesn't need to? I just turn my screen down or off. Just a thought.