Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:56:30 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

There's no sense to it - one week it's fine, next, you gotta hit it
with a hammer to wake it up.

Agent sometimes refuses to find the server. It has several different
error messages. I have found that if you open IE then it will dial up
the server, and then Agent will be happy to use the connection.
Usually. Sometimes you have to reboot. I am using a ten year old
version, so I am not knocking Agent, which I like a lot.

Casady


I leave my desktop and server "on" all the time. The monitors go into
sleep mode. The Mac is only "on" when I turn it on. Everything is
plugged into a very large APC UPS. If I am around when there is a
significant thunderstorm in the area, I do shut everything down. Couple
of years ago, a tree about 50' from the house was hit by lightning, and
a few "electronic" toys in the house were impacted.

Agent? Blech! :) Overkill by a factor of 100 if you are simply
reading and posting text.