How often do you shutdown your computer?

[Paddy]

Desktop goes down when explorer starts behaving erratically (every other week)
Server goes down when i remember to turn it off.

[ZokesPro]

I shut my system down when Nature decides to turns off the power to the whole block!! (otherwise it stays on)

[Goc]

My machines at home never get turned off. Restarts are also very rare... My record uptime for the machine in the sig is 89 days...

[RhinoZ]

I turn off my machine before going to bed at night.

[Nowhere]

basically almost never (sometimes attaching something, sometimes I feel I just must restart/it's senseless to keep it on: it freezed and I've spotted this at 5 a.m. while lunaticing almost), but since it's currently "stable differently" I have automatic restarts few times a week usually...

so I don't know to which option vote honestly...

[Pace|Work]

Just when changing hardware... I have shutdown disabled on most PCs

[CHHAS]

I turn off my home machine whenever I leave the house for longer periods of time, my work pc only gets shut down for the weekends.

[Stringy]

only shut my main rig down when needed...
all my other machines are usually off overnight...


Craig

[Nowhere]

hmmm...Pace, I thought Suns don't need turning off while changing something (that is, I assume your avatar tells something about what you work on )...

[Pace]

Originally posted by Pace|Work
Just when changing hardware... I have shutdown disabled on most PCs

Home PCs and previous job's PCs... Windows based of course. I'll check the uptimes on them next time I am around (still check their stuff out once in a while) - should be well over 3 months I think, possibly more.

I do not have the money to allow for hotswap devices...

As for work...well, we do sometimes have to reboot the thin clients, but can't recall ever hearing of a server rebooting. However, most system uptimes are not that great, about a year on average.

Originally posted by Nowhere
hmmm...Pace, I thought Suns don't need turning off while changing something (that is, I assume your avatar tells something about what you work on )...

Yes, have I not advertised it enough? I work for Sun in Linlithgow It's not great...but it gets Sun on the CV...

[Chrono_Wanderer]

The gaming rig is turned on on when needed, buecause there's 6 fans in it and its in bedroom.

The work rig is usually on when I get home, till mid-night. Sometimes I decide to leave it on for a day or too. I decide to turn them off to save fan life/conserve energy/cool down the components. (not that it really matters)

[mdhome]

I'm quite lucky. I dont have to worry about such things. I have a Game called Raven Shield that reboots my machine for me. That aside, I tend to put mine into Hibernation. My box has 4 fans for the case, one for the cpu, one of the power supply and one (i believe) on the TI4200. Besides, it helps keep the bedroom cool but it makes one hell of a racket.


Regards MD

ps my 800th posting