20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
9:46 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: Disc analyser news update
Oh...you shut your computers down?? Wow, it still amazes me that
some people do that.
I leave my desktop machine on 24x7 because I never know when I
might need something that's on it if I'm away from home. I
frequently log into it from my cell phone via ssh when I'm out and
about if I need to look for something in my notes or whatever.
And (being practical) I'm sitting in front of it nearly all the
time anyway, and it's much less wear and tear on the hardware than
constantly powering up and down.
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. Less chance of a virus infecting my laptop then.
My laptop currently takes 10 minutes to boot (including everything loading
after logging in). 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 :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
[1] A couple of programs I installed a few months back decided that they
needed to be active straight away, and didn't give me any choice in the
matter :(