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#154428 01/25/06 02:29 PM
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I don't use this kind of software, because I like to check each individual program before I log off to ensure I quit/save as appropriate; however, I'm sure that such programs are available either for purchase or as freeware.

Do a search for "shutdown utility" or "auto-shutdown utility" with PC.

Windows is a "real" OS. It's just not a real good "OS". It is an improvement over DOS and some of the previous incarnations of windows (which were just extensions to DOS). DOS itself was little more than a monitor program. The main technical problem I perceive with windows is that it doesn't do resource management very well. The main philosophical problem is that it is obtrusive. Clippy was just the natural fruition of their general disregard for the user. Windows is rude.

I remember the first computer I ever used - about 30 yrs ago now. It was a PDP-8 marketed as an edusystem 25, I think. It took maybe 45 minutes to boot from paper tape. Nowadays I get impatient when my 2GHz, dual processor takes 90 seconds.

Anyway, I think Bill Gates is brilliant. He might be many other things to boot, but he's also brilliant. Even brilliant people can do stupid things.

#154429 01/25/06 06:50 PM
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zm: Every watt you leave on costs about $1 a year. Fal has been doing this stuff 30 years. If your PC standby is only 10 watts, it would have cost him $300 not including inflation and the $300 additional interest he could have accumulated had he invested the initial sum; min total $600

This doesn't count the monitor


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Fal: Thank you, I shall ask my No. 1 Son to find and install the auto shutdown if he can and will. Tho he's getting pretty sick of me asking for help

I was sort of kidding about DOS; but had it survived and were it improved over the years I daresay it would be far sup[erior to Windows and surely would be immune from virus

Bill Gates is very competent when it comes to organizing charities

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