22 Mar
2010
22 Mar
'10
3:17 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Disc analyser news update
Some good points, but:
- No LAN here
- Never use sleep/standby, as when I'm finished with my laptop I usually
end up playing videogames, with the games console being powered from the
socket that the laptop plug was occupying.
- I let the display go to screen saver, but never use sleep. See previous
point.
:)
On the few occasions it goes to sleep mode (usually just as the internal
battery becomes critically low), mine also takes 2 seconds to wake up (plus
a few extra to log back in).
Remove the registry?!! :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Andrew Burton wrote:
> Leaving a computer running 24/7 may not harm the hardware as much, but
it
> harms the evironment and your electricity bill.
We always shut our
computers
> down at work at the end of the day, or when they
are finished with. I
never
> leave my laptop on all the time, since I only use
it a few hours each
day. I
> certainly disconnect from the internet when I
don't need website, Gopher
or
BBS access.
Surely you've heard of wake-on-LAN, and sleep/standby or even
suspend/hibernate. Surely you've heard of power management, you know,
spin down disks whenever possible, shut down the display after 10
minutes, sleep after 30 minutes, that sort of thing? I hear these
things are available even for virus infectable and registry laden
operating systems. These are generally considered solved problems at
this point. Less chance of a virus infecting my laptop then.
Running an infectable operating system is a different problem, but one
that has a very easy solution. :-)
> My laptop currently takes 10 minutes to boot
(including everything
loading
after logging
in).
Mine takes less than 2 seconds to wake from sleep, and when it comes
back online, everything is where I left it, ready to go, I don't have to
relaunch any apps. Most of the time my ssh sessions are still there
and connected. If not, RSA keys and screen make short work of that issue.
Shutting down is far too inconvenient. If you add up
all the time it
takes to shut down, restart, relaunch everything every day, you'll find
you're giving a significant chunk of your life in service to a machine
which should be serving you instead. Life's too short to waste on such
acrobatics. Old, or new, use the technology such that it works in your
favor, not against it.
Who says I waste time whilst booting up or shutting down? I'm usually
watching TV when I switch it on, and usually going to bed when I shut it
down - I trundle downstairs for a drink and by the time I return it has shut
down :)
I do need to
do a registry cleanout though[1], which is
lucky that I have a week off in April. Plenty of time to get all the
'little' jobs done :)
Again, if running an OS that has a registry is problematic, that problem
has a very easy solution. :)