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On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:04:43 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? |
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> How long between power off/on's ? |
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> I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, |
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> then restarting after I've woken & got going again myself. |
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> However recently, I've run into delays getting my router |
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> (only 1 device attached) to shake hands successfully with my ISP's server, |
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> which have been requiring several power off/on's before it works. |
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> As a result, I've started rebooting only after my weekly system update |
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> -- it means I get to use the new versions of everything -- |
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> & not powering off at all ; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off |
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> whenever I'm away from the machine for >= 1 hr (approx). |
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> Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? |
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No-one has yet mentioned taking backups. I'm still using a brute-force |
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approach, in which I shut down each of my two machines once a week to make a |
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backup to external disk. Otherwise they're on 24 hours a day running BOINC |
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projects. On the desktop PC kmail makes a daily archive of messages, and once |
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a day a cron job copies my user directory to /home/<me>.bu/ . |
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I know it burns energy but I'm prepared to make my small contribution to what |
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I think is a good cause. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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