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View Poll Results: What does your computer do at night?
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I keep it on. (In screensaver, with screen off, or with screen on). 39 votes (32.50%)
I put it to sleep. 57 votes (47.50%)
I turn it off. 13 votes (10.83%)
It drinks and gambles. 9 votes (7.50%)
I put it outside for the night. 2 votes (1.67%)
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What does your computer do at night?
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macgeek2005
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:13 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 03:16 PM
 
screensaver to screen off, but the computer stays on.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:17 PM
 
I don't know. I respect it's private time.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:27 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 03:28 PM
 
Sleep.

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Oct 18, 2006, 03:28 PM
 
Usually spends the night with the G5 down the street.
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:29 PM
 
It abuses hippies.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:30 PM
 
Make love, not war, Doofy's computer.
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:30 PM
 
I once had it run SETI during the night but then I saw the electric bills. Now it sleeps.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chuckit View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 03:42 PM
 
Mine stays up and downloads torrents.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 03:46 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 03:57 PM
 
Desktop = On with screen off
Laptop = Asleep (closed)

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Oct 18, 2006, 04:00 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 04:07 PM
 
Screen off, computer on.

It's been that way since I bought it 6 years ago, never had a problem.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:08 PM
 
Cronjobs of recursive backups of my Home folder to online webspace.

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Oct 18, 2006, 04:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by Doofy View Post
It abuses hippies.
Mine abuses republicans.
Emergency Medicine & Urgent Care.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:25 PM
 
can one keep the computer on and the monitor off on an iMac?
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:26 PM
 
Put display to sleep?
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by ironknee View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 04:47 PM
 
It does the same as me - goes to sleep
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:50 PM
 
Originally Posted by ironknee View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 04:51 PM
 
MacBook sleeps, G4 DA sits there waiting for morning at the login window
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chuckit View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 04:58 PM
 
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Oct 18, 2006, 04:59 PM
 
i put mine to sleep
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 05:06 PM
 
You were missing a few options.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 05:33 PM
 
Drinks and gambles. No doubt about it.

After the free drinks run out, SETI data gets crunched.
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Oct 18, 2006, 06:59 PM
 
I put drinks and gambles since that's basically what my Torrents are doing.

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Oct 18, 2006, 07:09 PM
 
when you guys mean sleep, do you mean deep sleep, or normal?
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 07:36 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 07:47 PM
 
I'm not seeing the option for

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Oct 18, 2006, 08:20 PM
 
Originally Posted by kick52 View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 08:53 PM
 
screen turns off, but MDD stays on so I can fall asleep with music/movie playing.
AT&T iPhone 5S and 6; 13" MBP; MDD G4.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 08:56 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 09:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by Teronzhul View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 09:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by macgeek2005 View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 09:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by macintologist View Post
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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Originally Posted by rickey939 View Post
It randomly posts on the 'NN Forums on my behalf.
thought that was its day job ?

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Oct 18, 2006, 09:30 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 09:50 PM
 
Originally Posted by macintologist View Post
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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Oct 18, 2006, 09:51 PM
 
Mine wears my sunglasses at night. So it can see the light that's right before its eyes.

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Oct 18, 2006, 10:51 PM
 
My computer buys crap off the Home Shopping Network.
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 11:06 PM
 
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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Oct 18, 2006, 11:11 PM
 
pretend?
     
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Oct 19, 2006, 01:49 AM
 
Originally Posted by ironknee View Post
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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Oct 19, 2006, 02:06 AM
 
Seti@home
     
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005 View Post
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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Oct 19, 2006, 02:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by macgeek2005 View Post
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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Originally Posted by analogika View Post
(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.

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