04-13-2004, 03:30 PM | #43 (permalink) |
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i turn mine off when i'm going to be gone for more than five hours cuz i figure that i can save a bit of electricity and even the what 2hr i loose turing it off for that ammount of time isnt such a big deal because i'm going to replace it every year or so....
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04-13-2004, 06:46 PM | #44 (permalink) | |
Hello, good evening, and bollocks.
Location: near DC
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Most people I've told never believe me, either! I think TVs are worse too, they got a slightly lower pitch I believe. But I rarely turn my comp off, tho my monitor sleeps after 20 mins. I'll shut my PC off if I'm going out of town, though. Also I've always believed that it's best to keep your hard disks spinning -- they definitely have the lightbulb effect working against them. HDD's always seem to fail when spinning up or down -- I've never heard of a disk grinding to a halt after constantly spinning in a server for year(s) or more, for example.... |
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04-13-2004, 07:00 PM | #45 (permalink) | |
beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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But yeah, I do turn of the monitor and the amp for the speakers. But nothing else
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04-13-2004, 11:52 PM | #46 (permalink) | |
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Location: San Diego
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04-14-2004, 02:36 AM | #47 (permalink) |
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Location: oregon
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I guess its just a habbit to turn it off when I am done using it.
I would get yelled at by my stupid sister in law if I left it on cause she likes all the lights off all the tv's any thing like that she thinks will make the bill go up, but its her using her hair dryer, washing machine, shower, and she is always cold so the heater is always on, she does not know that the heater makes the bill go up too. If it was my house I would leave it on but if I was gone for a long time like a week or so I would turn it off.
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04-14-2004, 07:56 AM | #48 (permalink) |
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Location: Notre Dame
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Yeah - my wife thinks I'm nuts when I tell her I can hear these things. That's why I put my computers in seperate rooms. I don't keep any machines in my bedroom and only 1 laptop in the living room (my Ti).
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04-14-2004, 06:44 PM | #51 (permalink) |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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I used to leave my PC on all the time. Then it caught on fire while I was gone and melted the motherboard and almost burnt down my house. Now I still leave it on. Oh well, some habits you just can't break!
-Lasereth
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04-14-2004, 08:13 PM | #52 (permalink) |
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i'm just wondering how all your systems perform with it on all the time?
i've heard that windows should be rebooted every 48 hours or so to clear the memeory cache or something :P that being said, i usually leave my computer on from the moment i wake up till i go to bed, if i'm dl'ing something then i leave it on overnight but usualy my parents get annoyed at me for 'wasting electricity' |
04-15-2004, 05:44 AM | #53 (permalink) |
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Location: Nova Scotia
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I usually shut down, if I'm going out/to bed, otherwise it's on. If I've been doing some heavy stuff, copying/burning, I'll restart to free up resources.
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04-15-2004, 12:55 PM | #54 (permalink) | |
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Location: Michigan
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04-15-2004, 03:01 PM | #55 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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I put it into hibernate. One of the benefits of XP (Only Home....I know, I know...). The monitor does go off, though. A question - How often should one clean one's computer?
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04-15-2004, 07:29 PM | #56 (permalink) |
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Location: right here of course
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turned off my crash box this morning before I left for work, then realised when I got gome that I needed a link on there when browsing on another forum. Argh, good reminder for me of why it usually stays on.
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04-15-2004, 07:38 PM | #57 (permalink) |
Computer Nerd
Location: Bishop, TX
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My computers stay on 24/7. I have a computer with remote access. That way if I'm on the road and want to record a TV show, I can log into my RDP box, then use VNC to get to the box with the 9600 PRO AIW and hit the record button on the guidelist. I can also use RDP to log into my machine locally here and use frontpage (I know, I know) to update my website. That way, I just have to have the RDP client on my jumpdrive to get into my personal boxes from anywhere with a broadband connection.
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