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Community weekly poll: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use?
- 1/25/08 3:02 PM
Of course
by dmbruley - 1/26/08 8:03 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Two big reasons: 1. I can't stand to hear noise at night if I can help it at all 2. My roommate and I don't make a whole lot of money, and I try to help out when I can.
I NEVER TURN IT OFF
by tomrdillon - 1/26/08 8:24 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Three reasons: 1) The incompetence of Microsoft to develop a start up process that takes less then 2-3 minutes. 2) It's much better to keep disc drives spinning away then stopping and starting. Most disc failures occur during shutdown and start up. 3) I am a heavy computer user and need it to be up and ready to go all day.
major part of the time
by paul b.1949 - 1/26/08 8:26 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I only keep it on sleep when I am away in class teaching; or at home but back in less than an hour. Has anyone heard of blackgle.com to save energy in web searches. Again this may seem small, but if we lower our impacts on each of our laptops/computers it will add up. paul
Turning the computer off
by fdogy - 1/26/08 8:51 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I turn my computer off unless its going to be used again within an hour if so it goes into hibernation mode. I just bothers me to see energy being wasted for no good reason.
Afraid to turn off old computer...
by john55440 - 1/26/08 8:57 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm afraid that if I turn off my 2002 computer, it will never start again. In the past, all of my computer hardware failures have been when the computer was cold, during boot up. I want to keep my old computer warm and happy. (grin)
useful even when it's not in use
by shadzofsilver - 1/26/08 8:58 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I run several distributed computing projects through BOINC. So even when I'm not using the computer, it is still actively working. It's my little contribution to science.
I don't mind the extra electricity consumption because the by-product of all of this: heat, is still useful up here in the frigid north. If the computer wasn't using it, the power would just end up being used to conventionally heat the house. Everyone wins.
Some say that running these processes around the clock can eventually harm the system, specifically the processor, but I have yet to see any ill effects. In fact, I think that keeping a constant temp is beneficial because I don't believe that expansion and contraction on bootup and shutdown is very healthy for the transistors. I could be wrong about this though.
Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use?
by madasahatter7 - 1/26/08 9:12 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I always turn it off at night before going to bed....but tend to put it on standby during the day unless I am certain that I won't be using the computer for a couple of hours or more
The Old School
by tsbarry - 1/26/08 9:18 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I think that a lot of us don't turn it off because in the old days we were instructed to leave them on because the less that you turned your computer on and off the higher the reliability was (don't know that there was any data supporting this but it was a given).
These days, it seems that it takes so long for the computer to spin up (PCs) with all of the anti-virus protection and other nonsense that it is less pain full to wait for it to boot back up, which is my approach. If I go out of town for a few days or more I will shut it down but if not I will leave it on just to reduce some of the pain of the startup time however, hibernate only seems a little better, which my computer does automatically while I'm away.
I guess that we should start a movement to turn them off when they are not in use but then my backups usually run overnight, which means I would have to resort to a manual backup schedule.
There may not be a good answer where computers a concerned.
Turning Off computer
by russtuttle - 1/26/08 9:38 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
From all that I have read, it is 6 of one and half dozen of the other when it comes to turning off the computer. I have decided to never turn off my computer manually when not in use. I use my computers "Power Settings" to turn off the monitor after 25 minutes and to turn off the Hard Dive after 1 hour. With both of those shut down I am running minimum power and I do not have the time consuming boot-up every morning. I will reboot occasionally after heavy use before I am ready to stop for the day.
On my laptop I use the hibernate function to shut down windows, again to alieviate the time consuming boot-up and will again re-boot before going into hibernate for the day end.
I run my computer when I am not sitting here...
by milkmaid - 1/26/08 9:43 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Working on my computer is part of my daily routine.
I download and walk away and do something else and come back.
If I need to look up information. I look for it and print it out.
I figure it would take more electricity turning it off and on every time I needed it than to leave it on.
I work on my computer at home.
I don't shut it down, but I do try to be responsible
by Keith in Albany - 1/26/08 9:55 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I go on the "every time you power up you shorten your PC's life" theory. So I have set up an efficient power scheme, very short lag time to sleep mode and monitor off. As to hacker danger, I take that seriously and protect myself with top notch security protection, not the freebees that come with my PC or from my ISP.
For the little bit of electricity used by leaving my computer running all the time, I make up for it with an energy-efficient home: CFLs, walking and public transit rather than driving, good insulation, responsible use of air conditioning and heating, etc.
More then not
by cityshifter - 1/26/08 10:25 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Turnoff PC at night or extended leave form use, mostly due seems some hacker program or unseen tracking site seems to find itself within my programs running. Found this out using a poker site when it froze. Checked network status showing three or four College sites being hooked into network, when traced really found nothing to get off my network status. So turned off and restarted instead of restarted didnt want them showing back up. Unfortunately with girlfriend hdcp'ed and other factors find this most compelling because forget to check what may be lagging on pc. Thus system like printer fax and such seems to have delinquent usage when needed, makes me wonder how they got hooked on in the first place. Something one might want to keep in mind, seeing how two of said colleges were Tech oriented. HMMMM
Shutdown
by blazerbob91 - 1/26/08 10:46 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I always shutdown my computer & printers, when it's not in use. Anytime its on it's using power and I try to conserve where I can. Like turning off the lights when I leave a room.
Mythbusters proved you use less energy turning off the lights when you leave a room then turn the back on when you reenter, no matter how long you are gone.
When not in use...
by jonjon1946 - 1/26/08 10:53 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I turn my computer off;
to save money on my electric bill;
for me it is a tool, not a toy;
to reduce needless power consumption in doing my part to conserve natural resources....there is a limit to everything in the universe;
to save wear and tear on the drives;
because the fans don't suck in any dust when not operational, reducing maintenence;
if I don't need it, it doesn't need to be on.
do you turn off your computer at night
by glennr51 - 1/26/08 11:01 AM In reply to: Poll: Do you turn off your computer when it's not in use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
answer: no my computer is on broadband and I have in coming business all night long.
GLENN T REEVES
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