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What does your computer do at night?
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I'm just curious what the results of this will be. What do you set your computer to do at night?
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screensaver to screen off, but the computer stays on.
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I don't know. I respect it's private time.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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I usually keep it on (but let the display go to sleep, of course) to download stuff while I'm asleep.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Addicted to MacNN
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Location: Washington, DC
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2006
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Usually spends the night with the G5 down the street.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Clinically Insane
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Location: Vacation.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Make love, not war, Doofy's computer.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Addicted to MacNN
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Location: Cupertino, CA
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I once had it run SETI during the night but then I saw the electric bills. Now it sleeps.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by Chuckit 
Make love, not war, Doofy's computer.
It can't help it - it's got too much Intel in the brain.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Springfield, MO
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Mine stays up and downloads torrents.
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Mac Elite
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When mine is downloading torrents it stays on with the screen off, but if not downloading, I put it to sleep.
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Desktop = On with screen off
Laptop = Asleep (closed)
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: :ИOITAↃO⅃
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I used to put it to sleep, but these days my MacBook Pro is faster than the dedicated compute servers for the lab (!!), so I do my work locally. So I leave it on, plugging away at crunching numbers.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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Screen off, computer on.
It's been that way since I bought it 6 years ago, never had a problem.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Cronjobs of recursive backups of my Home folder to online webspace.
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Baninated
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Location: Cambridge, Chicago, Jerusalem (school/home/heart)
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Originally Posted by Doofy
It abuses hippies.
Mine abuses republicans.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 1999
Location: New York City
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can one keep the computer on and the monitor off on an iMac?
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The rich are cheap. That's how they got rich.
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Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by ironknee
can one keep the computer on and the monitor off on an iMac?
Take a small hammer and tap the screen a few times.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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It does the same as me - goes to sleep 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by ironknee
can one keep the computer on and the monitor off on an iMac?
Yes. In fact, they do it automatically if you leave them alone for a while.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Senior User
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MacBook sleeps, G4 DA sits there waiting for morning at the login window
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 1999
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Yes. In fact, they do it automatically if you leave them alone for a while.
and it could download or run seti?
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The rich are cheap. That's how they got rich.
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Addicted to MacNN  Join Date: Jul 2005
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It randomly posts on the 'NN Forums on my behalf.
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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You were missing a few options.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Drinks and gambles. No doubt about it.
After the free drinks run out, SETI data gets crunched.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I put drinks and gambles since that's basically what my Torrents are doing.
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
Location: England
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when you guys mean sleep, do you mean deep sleep, or normal?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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It gets to sleep when I get to sleep which, unfortunately, is nowhere near often enough. More often than not it's awake until two or three in the morning doing homework with me... but unlike me, it usually gets to sleep in. Lucky bastard.
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Any ramblings are entirely my own, and do not represent those of my employers, coworkers, friends, or species
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: 888500128
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I'm not seeing the option for
"Goes prowling for virgin blood."
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Addicted to MacNN
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Originally Posted by kick52
when you guys mean sleep, do you mean deep sleep, or normal?
There is only one kind of sleep.
Power is too cheap in America.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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screen turns off, but MDD stays on so I can fall asleep with music/movie playing.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 1999
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I'm the only person who turns it off? The fan noise annoys me, as do the little LED lights. Of course, my friends used to make fun of me due to the fact that I place electrical tape over all of the electronic displays in my room (tv, a/v receiver, etc). Hmm
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by Teronzhul
I'm the only person who turns it off? The fan noise annoys me, as do the little LED lights. Of course, my friends used to make fun of me due to the fact that I place electrical tape over all of the electronic displays in my room (tv, a/v receiver, etc). Hmm
What computer do you use? New macs are dead silent when in sleep.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
What computer do you use? New macs are dead silent when in sleep.
Not desktops, they keep running the fans. Only the hard drive and monitor power down in sleep.
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by macintologist
Not desktops, they keep running the fans. Only the hard drive and monitor power down in sleep.
No they don't. Even my MDD G4 went dead silent when in sleep.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by rickey939
It randomly posts on the 'NN Forums on my behalf.
thought that was its day job ? 
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Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2001
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For the past year or so, my computer has been running a mix of RC5-72 and SETI BOINC 24/7.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by macintologist
Not desktops, they keep running the fans. Only the hard drive and monitor power down in sleep.
My old iMac G3 did this, but not my G4 desktop after that ("digital audio").
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Mine wears my sunglasses at night. So it can see the light that's right before its eyes.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Addicted to MacNN
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My computer buys crap off the Home Shopping Network.
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Mac Elite
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Okay, was there a better way I could have titled this thread, so that you guys would actually just say what you "set" your computer to do at night, as opposed to pretending that it does stuff by itself?
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Professional Poster
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The rich are cheap. That's how they got rich.
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by ironknee
pretend?
Yes, pretend. Nobodys computer goes prowling for virgin blood during the night, and nobodys computer goes out and gets drunk. And nobody takes their computer outside for the night.
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Mac Elite
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
Okay, was there a better way I could have titled this thread, so that you guys would actually just say what you "set" your computer to do at night, as opposed to pretending that it does stuff by itself?
Just like that? "What do you set your computer to do while you sleep?"
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Chuck
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
Okay, was there a better way I could have titled this thread, so that you guys would actually just say what you "set" your computer to do at night, as opposed to pretending that it does stuff by itself?
(YOU added the "it drinks and gambles" option to the poll, you stupid moron. And now you're bitching about it?  )
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Administrator Join Date: May 2000
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Originally Posted by analogika
(YOU added the "it drinks and gambles" option to the poll, you stupid moron. And now you're bitching about it? )
I added the last two options to the poll, not macgeek2005. They seemed appropriate to the way the question was phrased, and how the thread was going.
Please be advised that abuse of other members is not allowed. "moron" doesn't fly here, for multiple reasons.
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