From: "Mandoman" <wonder_warthog@hogwarts.com>

| On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:37:55 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
|

|
| Yes, I'm going to be done too. I have 11K plus wu's submitted and I
| have left my computer on 24/7/365 for several years now solely for
| SETI. Since that's been hard on the computer leaving it on all that
| time & considering the expense of electricity to power it all those
| years, I have a lot invested.
|
| Guess I'll try to transfer the last of the wu's still in setidriver
| cache (48 & holding (Can't seem to get Berkley to accept these) and be
| done with SETI.
|
| Maybe folding or maybe better yet, just start turning off the computer
| & save the mechanical wear & tear on the drives.

Actually, there is less wear and tear on a computer when kept powered-on.  This is due to a
constant temperature and remaining at more-or-less a level of quiesence.  Turning on and off
a computer over and over has more wear due to changing temperatures and mechanical factors.
For example "chip creep".  But yes, you are consuuming some 250 watts per platform and thats
assuming no CRT monitor is left on.

I have had a SETI farm so it is multiple computers.  Some doing nothing else other than SETI
24/7/365.

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm