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Former Member
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Mine stay on 24/7 365 days - and in a leap year I use that day for maintenance and cleaning
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All mine stay on except when we go away for more than a couple of days - the garage is always nice and warm
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(1) I wouldn't leave a pc in standby, some PC power supplies can consume 100W or more in that mode.- The Desktop settings are set to deactive the monitor after 5 hours. - The computer enters "standby" after 6 hours (like when I go on vacation). - So essentially the system will turn itself off. (2) Because my computer is connected to BitTorrent and constantly downloading or uploading something. (3) As you said, turning a system on-and-off can damage the power supply. It you use your computer regularly, then it's better to just leave it on, but in a minimal power consumption state. I don't see how. Everything's turned-off and inactive. Nothing's running. As for cable hackers, who cares? My computer's not got anything valuable for them to steal. |
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(1) I wouldn't leave a pc in standby, some PC power supplies can consume 100W or more in that mode.- The Desktop settings are set to deactive the monitor after 5 hours. - The computer enters "standby" after 6 hours (like when I go on vacation). - So essentially the system will turn itself off. (2) Because my computer is connected to BitTorrent and constantly downloading or uploading something. (3) As you said, turning a system on-and-off can damage the power supply. It you use your computer regularly, then it's better to just leave it on, but in a minimal power consumption state. I don't see how. Everything's turned-off and inactive. Nothing's running. As for cable hackers, who cares? My computer's not got anything valuable for them to steal. Because it is in standby, not off. Switch-mode PSUs consume a fair bit of energy in that mode. |
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I turn mine off as needed, and I turn them on the same way. So they may be on for weeks and then off for weeks. The windows machines I restart when I am finished for the day to keep that springtime fresh feeling.
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courine
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So, you do when you do, and then when you dont, well, you dont. Sounds good to me.
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Maybe they are just oggling your thighs?
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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  somebody with a Kill-o-watt meter measure how many KWh we get out of Ady (AKA:StudMuffin) here. This much leg showing powers 1 machine, a bit more and there's enough for 2Now, stay just like that. If you start to loose power or we need more systems up, I'll go throw on a teddy some thing. Ady? Why the glazed look in your eye? Ady? ADY? YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE GOIN.........  Oh darn! I loose all the good ones that way. I got to be more carefull next time  When the needs of the community must be faced, courine answers the call! |
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I like Teddies  |
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I like Teddies We like you to Oh the other kind of Teddies |
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