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turning computers off and on

by Leslie

Jan 5, 2010

What is your view on turning the computers off each evening and then back on the following day? I have a lab of Dells.

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CTJS I found this information produced by the state of Oregon about turning computers off. The link is below.

For a business, I could see having updates run at night but things work pretty well in the computer lab with updates being made during the day.

Perhaps Mary, you could have your last period students turn off the computers at th...See More

Jan 11, 2010

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Mary On 1/11/10, CTJS wrote: > I found this information produced by the state of Oregon about turning > computers off. The link is below. > > For a business, I could see having updates run at night but things work > pretty well in the computer lab with updates being made during the day. > > Perhaps Mary, you could have your last per...See More

Jan 11, 2010

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easy w/Insight On 1/05/10, Leslie wrote: > What is your view on turning the computers off each evening > and then back on the following day? I have a lab of > Dells.

I have Insight in my classroom and it makes it easy to turn the computers on/off when needed. I turn them off every night because my classroom would be so hot the next morning if I...See More

Jan 11, 2010

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East End Long Islander One advantage to leaving computers on is that they can automatically update anti-virus programs and Windows without tying up the machines during the "workday".

The disadvantage is that they can't clean themselves out, as they do when they are fully turned off. Certainly the monitors can be physically be turned off or set to "sleep" to sav...See More

Jan 20, 2010

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Carl I'm running a thin client setup at my school. The lab computers don't use a hard drive, processor or case fans so they use 25 watts or less. The terminal server is running Kubuntu, and it automatically updates itself. I like to SSH into it once in a while just to make sure its secure and running without errors.

so, in short, I think that ...See More

Jan 20, 2010

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