I will leave them on forever unless they crash. My Vista box reboots itself once a week or so. My Mac seems to have an update that requires a reboot every couple weeks, but I put it off for an extra couple weeks. The Ubuntu box stays untouched.
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§ ita § - Nov 02, 2009 2:25:01 pm PST #11566 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2009 2:28:33 pm PST #11567 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My Mac seems to have an update that requires a reboot every couple weeks,
I rarely have to reboot my MacBook for some crash or something - so it's mostly for updates. Even so, I can't remember ever having an uptime more than 30 days. I guess they do have a lot of updates....
Steph L. - Nov 02, 2009 2:39:58 pm PST #11568 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Like ita, I leave my laptop (oooold iBook G4) on forever unless it crashes.
Vortex - Nov 02, 2009 5:19:17 pm PST #11569 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I left my work computer on for about two years, except for occasional rebooting due to updates because I had a Treo, and the computer needed to be on for me to get mail. Now, I leave it on because it's craptastic and takes so long to come back to itself that I don't bother to shut it down. I used to shut it down every night.
I'm supposed to get a new one. Actually, it's already here, but the university IT people haven't put the virus protection on it, so my guy can't install it. Grrrr.
Ginger - Nov 02, 2009 7:12:17 pm PST #11570 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I try not to have a throw-away mentality, but I think after running the cleaning cycle multiple times, replacing the ink cartridges, cleaning the printer head, soaking the printer head and resetting to the default settings, I should have a printer that prints yellow and magenta if it ever was going to again. Cleaning seemed to help for a while, but not this time. The printer is about 5 years old. Anyone have an HP Photosmart Plus all-in-one? It seems to be the best combination of reviews and cost that I can, theoretically, buy tomorrow.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 4:04:31 am PST #11571 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We're supposed to shut our office machines down every night to get updates, but it takes almost half an hour to boot up in the morning, so I only shut it down on weekends.
Jon B. - Nov 03, 2009 4:53:55 am PST #11572 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We're supposed to shut our office machines down every night to get updates
We're supposed to keep ours on for the same reason! How does a machine get an update if the power is off?
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 4:58:15 am PST #11573 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our machines are dumb clients - all software updates are done centrally and then synched with our profiles when we log on.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 4:59:37 am PST #11574 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Windows installs the updates as part of the restart process.
Gudanov - Nov 03, 2009 5:00:54 am PST #11575 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I leave my work computer on all the time in case I need to remote access from home.
My home computer I try to always turn off when I won't be using it since pressing the power switch to using applications is all of 50 seconds now.