On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 2:44:17 AM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 7:57:07 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:06:28 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> >
> > > On 12/19/2015 10:57 PM, sf wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 13:40:47 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Had the opposite problem. The sound on my W7 computer used to drop out
> > > >> after a few days and had to reboot. W10 upgrade fixed it.
> > > >
> > > > Rebooting is that big of a deal?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sometimes it is, like when I'm doing serious work. When I have a lot of
> > > things open being worked on they have to be closed, re-booted, reopened
> > > and your train of thought is interrupted.
> > >
> > > Reading newsgroups, no big deal. Doing editing of information and
> > > working in a relational database, yes.
> >
> > Why don't you shut down the computer at the end of the day instead of
> > running it continually?
> >
> > --
> >
> > sf
>
> Old computer guys seem to do that. My father-in-law did that. I don't know why. Force of habit I guess.

I shut down my home PC every night. It doesn't need to be talking
to the Internet without me.

At work, the official software build runs on my PC every night, so
I leave it on all of the time. We've got a bigass firewall between
it and the outside world.

Cindy Hamilton