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marcofella [Edit] [Delete] 13 replies 10:28, 16 March '06

Do you leave your PC on all the time?

Meaning, when you go out do you switch it off or do you leave it switched on and connected to the net?

I never switch mine off, but then i remotely control mine from work and i also use it as an FTP server.

Jesus, who do i think i am? Theo?

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I think you should start

a business writing macros in visual basic for people.

Just so you can be called 'Macrofella'.

yeah.

homesick_alien | 16 Mar '06, 10:31 | X
- Gosh
  
  i've never heard that one before :-|
  
  marcofella @homesick_alien | 16 Mar '06, 10:33 | X
  - but
    
    can you actually make it happen please?
    
    homesick_alien @marcofella | 16 Mar '06, 10:35 | X
    - What makes you think
      
      i haven't already?
      
      marcofella @homesick_alien | 16 Mar '06, 10:39 | X
      - I'll hire you.
        
        homesick_alien @marcofella | 16 Mar '06, 10:40 | X
        
        You couldn't afford me
        
        i've seen how you dress.
        
        marcofella @homesick_alien | 16 Mar '06, 10:40 | X
        
        he looks like someone who's into less than jake
        
        :P
        
        crablin @marcofella | 16 Mar '06, 11:07 | X
My home PC goes off when not in use

because I just couldn't be arsed doing that remote shit.

My work one stays on. I just lock it and turn the monitor off.

This is because

1) I used to have SETI@Home running on it but BOINC took the fun away somehow and then I started getting .net. While I was only using it to connect to the AS/400 there was just tonnes of spare processing power.

2) if I need to work from home I have to remote desktop to it so I need to have it on for that.

iShotTheDeputy | 16 Mar '06, 10:34 | X
turn it off

both work and home when not in use. no need to have them on, and it's a terrible waste of electricty.

guntrip | 16 Mar '06, 10:42 | X
- But in Hibernation mode
  
  it uses hardly any power.
  
  marcofella @guntrip | 16 Mar '06, 10:43 | X
  - "hardly any" = less than none, then?
    
    guntrip @marcofella | 16 Mar '06, 10:54 | X
    - Whenever
      
      I'm not at home I switch my laptop off. I'm always worried that it might explode and burn the house down.
      
      I tend to keep my PC in work on because each time I switch it off all my contacts disappear from our internal instant messager and it's a pain in the arse to add them again.
      
      johnny_goatboy @guntrip | 16 Mar '06, 13:42 | X
  - Work insist that we leave our PC's on, they update them overnight. The home PC gets turned off infrequently
    
    Judge_B @marcofella | 16 Mar '06, 10:47 | X

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