'Dirty Girls'
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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.
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.
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.
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?
Our machines are dumb clients - all software updates are done centrally and then synched with our profiles when we log on.
Windows installs the updates as part of the restart process.
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.
That makes sense, Jess. Thanks.
I just had someone describe google search to me as a conceptual search. I know we're not privy to search algorithms, but my impression was that it's, at core, a full text search with synonyms, and also checks for your search term in documents linking to a given document (which I've never found useful, for the record). Would any of you go so far as to describe it as conceptual? I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
This is my impression, but I'm also not 100% clear on what "conceptual search" is supposed to mean.