Turn it off or leave it on?
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
I leave it on so I can access it from my house and edit/modify/create code when the muse strikes. Set up my laptop on the patio - get a beverage of choice ( usually coffee ) - log on via wifi - do all the little things I was gonna do during the day but got sidetracked. Life is sweet. Richard "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
I leave it on because I am lazy. ;) I also have some shared folders that I want people to have access to. Gary Kirkham A working Program is one that has only unobserved bugs He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot Me blog, You read
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
Usually leave it on during the week, and turn it off on the weekends. Leave it on during the week so virus scan can run. I do shut down all my apps, though, because some apps (especially Visual Studio) act funny if left on over night... probably the virus scan interferes with them in some subtle way... I turn it off over the weekend to save power and stuff like that. Hey, our yearly bonuses are tied to controlling expense... An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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Maximilien wrote: I usually just close my MSN session and leave; leaving my work as it is. I'd be worried that the night janitor is a budding programmer with a desire to make his mark by "tweaking" the code he found in my editor. :suss: ;) "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
Mike Mullikin wrote: the night janitor is a budding programmer Mike Mullikin = Dilbert:-D Mine is not to question Why, but to shake my head and sigh.:sigh:
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Info http://www.xoreax.com/[^] here if anyone's interested In my experience it can reduce build times of large projects drastically (e.g. 10 minutes down to a minute or so) Obviously it's dependant on how many other computers are running the client on your network, but every little helps! -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
How many PC's participating? Does it work for command line builds, too (i.e. calling
msdev foo.dspon the console)?
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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How many PC's participating? Does it work for command line builds, too (i.e. calling
msdev foo.dspon the console)?
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygenWe normally have around 20 machines running it, but even if you only have five or so it should still give you an improvement As for command line builds, I'm not too sure - It installs as an add-in for visual studio, so you use incredibuild's own build/rebuild/etc options instead of the visual studio build stuff -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
1. I use Seti@Home, but I lock the screen. Same thing for my home unit. Up 24/7. New Year's Eve I shut it down for company, and the silence was deafening.:rolleyes: Mine is not to question Why, but to shake my head and sigh.:sigh:
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
1, 3, and 5
- 1 - I connect from home via a VPN to my work computer.
- 3 - From the experience I have, on my previous workplace we burned a few hard-disks due to power-on/off, also monitors got damaged. (I know that due to a report from our hardware dealer). Currently at work, we have an UPS, so we don't need to panic about voltage changes and no disks/monitors were damaged. (Monitors go to standby automatically)
- 5 - Yes, sometimes it takes time to login, if all login at the same time, remote disks take time to get loaded :(.
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Usually leave it on during the week, and turn it off on the weekends. Leave it on during the week so virus scan can run. I do shut down all my apps, though, because some apps (especially Visual Studio) act funny if left on over night... probably the virus scan interferes with them in some subtle way... I turn it off over the weekend to save power and stuff like that. Hey, our yearly bonuses are tied to controlling expense... An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
My desktop box is usually left on 24/7 for a couple of reasons: 1. I often use it via Remote Desktop from my laptop, and it's a pain running upstairs to switch it on when I need to. 2. There's an external disk attached to it which my laptop uses as a backup device. If on standby, it wakes up at 2:30am to spill it's little heart out to the ether. So in practice both machines are on most of the time, although my laptop spends a fair amount of time on standby or in hibernation. Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
Everyone else here leaves it on, so the anti virus can run in the morning. I'm here when it runs, I start at 5:30, and I turn it off and take it home, it's my personal notebook. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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K(arl) wrote: Is that true? I thought switching a PC on/off was the most damaging for some components as the hard drives, having to mehanically accelerate/slow down I've heard theories on both sides of the issue. I suspect there is a little truth in each and that it varys by component type. Acceleration/deceleration vs. sustained heat and RF exposure. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
I assume "RF" means radio frequency here. Why would this matter? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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I assume "RF" means radio frequency here. Why would this matter? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Jim Crafton wrote: Why would this matter? I seem to remember some theory about how a CPU capable of overclocking when new would fail after a few years that blamed it on sustained heat and RF exposure. Not being an electronics wizard, I have no idea if the theory made sense. :-> "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
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I just 'Lock' my computer, because it's easier on me. BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
-Days of the NewAnd then I wander over, need to use the PC and log-in as an Administrator so terminating your session and you loose any unsaved work. ;) I think we discussed this on CP awhile back. The consensus was that at the office if you lock 'n leave you have no right to moan about people fuxoring your session with an admin log-in. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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And then I wander over, need to use the PC and log-in as an Administrator so terminating your session and you loose any unsaved work. ;) I think we discussed this on CP awhile back. The consensus was that at the office if you lock 'n leave you have no right to moan about people fuxoring your session with an admin log-in. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
I tend to change the admin password on my machines, just in case one of the co-workers gets any ideas. Of course, a network admin would still be able to mess with it, but then again, anyone could yank the cord out and be done with it if they were really out to make trouble. These days, i mostly just take my laptop home with me... much simpler. :)
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I tend to change the admin password on my machines, just in case one of the co-workers gets any ideas. Of course, a network admin would still be able to mess with it, but then again, anyone could yank the cord out and be done with it if they were really out to make trouble. These days, i mostly just take my laptop home with me... much simpler. :)
You left me high and dry and changed me You lied to me and now i’m angry**...**I meant to ask; What happens when you lock the latest versions of Windows XP Pro when logged into a domain? Here at home I freaked when I first booted the laptop as I thought they had installed Windows XP Home. It had the mult-user session thing with images and when you locked it it let me log-in as another user while keeping the original user's session alive. Turns out the latest versions of Windows XP Pro do that too. Any idea if it does that on domain-bound copies too? regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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I meant to ask; What happens when you lock the latest versions of Windows XP Pro when logged into a domain? Here at home I freaked when I first booted the laptop as I thought they had installed Windows XP Home. It had the mult-user session thing with images and when you locked it it let me log-in as another user while keeping the original user's session alive. Turns out the latest versions of Windows XP Pro do that too. Any idea if it does that on domain-bound copies too? regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
No. Windows disables "fast user switching" (that long-overdue multiple-logon feature) when you're on a domain. Sucks, because that would be very, very useful at times... but from what i hear, they ran into too many problems WRT domains, and so opted to disable it. Of course, you can still run Terminal Services and have multiple log-ins from separate machines... :^) :|
You left me high and dry and changed me You lied to me and now i’m angry**...** -
How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
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And then I wander over, need to use the PC and log-in as an Administrator so terminating your session and you loose any unsaved work. ;) I think we discussed this on CP awhile back. The consensus was that at the office if you lock 'n leave you have no right to moan about people fuxoring your session with an admin log-in. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project South-East Asia Disaster: How you can help Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Paul Watson wrote: unsaved work What's this? I can't really be concerned about someone going out of their way to sabotage me. If they want make my life difficult they will one way or the other. Meanwhile, my politics keep out of harms way 99.9999% of the time anyway. BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
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How about a quick Lounge Poll™ ? At the end of the work day - do you power your work/office PC off completely or "Restart/LogOff" and leave it powered on? For those that leave it powered on... why? 1. PC performs tasks after hours (utilities, updates, virus scans, etc...). 2. Second shift user needs it on. 3. Leaving it on is "easier" on the components and I want this baby to last forever. 4. Leaving it on is "harder" on the components and I want a new PC. 5. Saves valuable time in the morning. 6. Auto-power-off doesn't work on my PC and I can't wait for the bloody message telling me it's OK to power-off. "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick
I leave it on .. 7. Because it's corporate policy ... application upgrades & patches are pushed overnight so machine has to be on and, more importantly 8. So I can vpn & remote desktop in after hours from home to get more work done or handle a production support issue.