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So you all know that it would just be smart to turn off your monitors at the end of the work day. Sure, trying to restart your machine would take 10 minutes by the time you got your Browsers, Editors, Database Manager and Development Environments restarted after a reboot, but monitors come on instantly. Each monitor would be like turning off a 40 watt light bulb and if you are serious, you have two of those going. If all of us got it together, we could turn off the capacity of a nuclear reactor... and what's more valuable than those little electrons that make our CPUs work? Leave them in the power line instead of converting them to worthless photons that are just scrambling around and heading off into space? It's just a smart thing to do.
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Or you could get 99% of the energy savings without the lost time penalty by just letting them go into standby instead of running a screen saver when you're not around. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can't cope with that... I hate, truly hate to be staring at the display thinking on a problem and suddenly the screen goes blank...  Not for me, and I hate moving the mouse from time to time while thinking... Have I said that I hate it already? 
Anyway I always shut them down when I leave the office by any reason...
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Hah screen saver set for 30 minutes, if I'm still chewing on a problem in that time I put it aside for the day, let the sub conscious work on it over night.
The downside of that is waking up at 4am with an idea on how to fix the problem.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Not an option... I would never sleep...
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I've always done that and many of the people I have worked with have also done so. But then I would walk around the house turning off lights and shutting doors. Yes, I have become my dad, damn it!
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Yah, ain't that the truth, but it could be worse.
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Thanks, you are right: my dad is a damned good man. 
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It's always the little things that count.
Take the stairs instead of the escalator, walk instead of taking the car, turn off your monitor, buy the slightly cheaper brand, have a vegetarian day, etc.
All the small differences add up.
The Dutch have a saying, loosely translated, "who doesn't respect the small isn't worthy of the big."
I try to live by it! 
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Michael Breeden wrote: Sure, trying to restart your machine would take 10 minutes by the time you got your Browsers, Editors, Database Manager and Development Environments restarted after a reboot
Geez, are you still using an 80386? Or 5400 RPM drives in desperate need of defraging? It takes about 60 seconds for me to hit the ground running, usually the computer is waiting for me! Heh. Fancy that. 
Marc
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It's the email and IM applications that take forever.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Geez, are you still using an 80386? Or 5400 RPM drives in desperate need of defraging
No but corporate have inflicted so much anti virus, security and inspirational crap on us that it feels like it. Mine take a minimum of 8 minutes to reboot and load my working environment.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: No but corporate have inflicted so much anti virus, security and inspirational crap on us that it feels like it. Mine take a minimum of 8 minutes to reboot and load my working environment.
Touche. You also remind me of why I am my own man with my own machine.
Marc
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 I hope my pay and stress levels are better than yours, I miss doing what you do, I did enjoy the 90s.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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From recently playing around with a copy of my home system on an HDD I've discovered I may owe part of corporate IT an apology. For years I'd been blaming the bozos who piled run on login crapware for my machine being borderline unusable for 10 minutes after a boot (down from nearly 30min a decade ago). On an SSD my machine is fast enough that I had to train myself to start applications right to left on the task bar to avoid problems with stuff moving around underneath as the first app launches; on an HDD is was an unusable cluster elephant for 10 or 15 minutes after boot just like the piece of crap Dell I use at work. Of course since the other half of corporate IT is still buying bottom end HDD blighted latitudes and telling me the corporate standard is still only a 22 (1680x1050) and a 19 (1280x1024) monitor while buying all the iTards 27" 1440p screens that apology is unlikely to ever be delivered. Man is known by the company he keeps; and the rest of them are all sunshines.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm senior enough that I have a chance at getting what I want, we now have 2 monitors instead of the 14" thing they wanted to inflict us with, some of us have managed to get local admin rights and a few other perks. IT do take their revenge however, I'm bloody certain there is a policy somewhere specifically for our team that crucifies the systems.
However I'm fighting back and turn my machine off at lunch time, their favoured time for inflicting their scan and crap on the machine. This has the net effect of extending my lunch break by 30 minutes as the machine is unusable when I fire it up after lunch.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Ah, but a quite common condition for developers is that of the lights being on whilst no-one is home.
It's called "Monday morning".
So if no-one went to work on Monday mornings, this state would not occur, and the savings would obviously be far more considerable than those achieved by turning off the little blue LED on a monitor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I plug my monitors (three at work) into a switched power strip and disconnect the power when I leave -- so no vampire power usage either.
At home I still use a Kensington power thingy that I think I bought in the 80s. So I power the monitor, speaker, and work light as needed.
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Now that's good. Disconnect the wall wart power vampires
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What if Iron Man was really (Fe) Male?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Then he'd be Margaret Tatcher.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes, the Iron Lady, world famous for ... Ironing?
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If you cannot say anything nice, then it is sometimes better to not say anything. Which is already saying too much
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It was a different time back then, you needed tough people in management, as the world was unsafe, jobs were scarce and IRA bombed places in London. Yes, everything was much better back then
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Iron Maiden?
Yeah I know it's CrAs.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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