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?

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sf

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.

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

Cindy Hamilton > wrote in
:

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

I have been running it 24/7 for years (I like OS updates and
malware checks done at 2AM) but as I will be upgrading my
computer to a solid state drive with 8Gb memory running
Windows 10 and a much faster processor, I will start turning
it off at night.

(Nattering nabobs of negativity abstain from comments please)

Booting which currently takes about five minutes (if there
is no OS update) will take three seconds. So will power down.

> 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.

That was the case at work as well. Updates and requested
backups were done at night.

My wife also works for the government but her department
insists on a total shutdown outside of work hours. Different
strokes...

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Michel Boucher wrote:
> My wife also works for the government

Oh wotta surprise, Frenchy and his squeeze are both gubmint whores...

Michel Boucher wrote:
>
> My wife also works for the government but her department
> insists on a total shutdown outside of work hours. Different
> strokes...

It's good policy. Restart and boot will happen while you drink your
morning coffee.

On 2015-12-20 10:30 AM, Michel Boucher wrote:

> My wife also works for the government but her department
> insists on a total shutdown outside of work hours. Different
> strokes...
>


I worked for the government and our earlier terminals were driven by a
floppy. We turned them off at the end of our shifts and booted them up
at when we went back to work. Later systems ran 24/7 and we just had
to log on.

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

I shut down mine too most nights and always before I leave for work
for the day. If you're not going to use the machine for several hours,
best to turn it off. Doing that can reset things but more importantly,
it turns off your hard drive. Hard drive is the only physical thing
constantly moving in a computer. All that spinning is what wears them
out eventually and you get a crash. I've never had a hard drive go
bad.

When sf's hard drives slow down, she replaces them. When mine slow
down, I run defrag and fix them.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:46:29 -0500, Gary > wrote:

> When sf's hard drives slow down, she replaces them. When mine slow
> down, I run defrag and fix them.

Gary, stop acting like an asshole because that's not true. I know how
to defrag and do it. I also know when something else is wrong, so I
take the stranglehold off my purse strings and spend a couple of
bucks.

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sf

On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 5:00:46 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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

My guess is my father-in-law kept some kind of connection all the time between his work computer and home computer. He was on call pretty much all the time. My sister-in-law is the same way. It's a pretty shitty deal. People were always calling them all the time and their real life had to stop until problems were fixed or answers were given.

On 12/20/2015 2:44 AM, dsi1 wrote:

>>>> 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 used to shut down every night, but putting it to sleep uses very
little energy and everything is ready to go. Not life changing, just
convenient. If I'm going to be away for a day it gets shut down.

Ed Pawlowski > wrote in
:

> I used to shut down every night, but putting it to sleep uses
> very little energy and everything is ready to go. Not life
> changing, just convenient. If I'm going to be away for a day
> it gets shut down.

If you are upgrading, go for a solid state drive.

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Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> I used to shut down every night, but putting it to sleep uses very
> little energy and everything is ready to go. Not life changing, just
> convenient. If I'm going to be away for a day it gets shut down.

Total shutdown (cold start) is good at least occasionally, imo. Many
times, your system resources get sucked up and cold start is good to
reset it all and give you back SRs. It also saves wear and tear on
the harddrive. No need for that to be spinning if it won't be used for
many hours.

On 12/20/2015 11:51 AM, Gary wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> I used to shut down every night, but putting it to sleep uses very
>> little energy and everything is ready to go.

> No need for that to be spinning if it won't be used for
> many hours.
>

True, thus the sleep mode with no revolutions of the HD. Touch a key
and everything is where you left off.

Sqwertz wrote:
> I have my computer set to sleep


**** off, woman-stalker.