Do you turn your computer off? | Polls | Crossfire

Should be option, sometimes!

agree
when my pron torrents have finished.

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idd

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yes

standby during the night

Because of?

I always shut down my pc.

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so i can satisfy my addiction faster when i wake up.

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:XD

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LOOOOOOOOOOOL
this made my nice day nicer, thx

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not anymore, i turn my bot on and go to sleep

nope
my pc usually stays on for week/ks till i decide to turn it off

yes

no

No. It's in my spare room, so I just leave it running at night.

Same.

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what about your electricity bill?

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Never been a massive problem.

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yo

ofc

yes, because my mom will kill me if I didn't

and it makes no sense leaving ur PC on, just sometimes I leave it on for downloads at night.

booting takes only 1 min, so I can get smth to drink etc first when I'm going to hide myself behind my PC

You, sir, are 20 years old and your mom controls wether your pc is off or not... :D

Parent

she pays the power bill, I can let is on aslong I'm at home.

+ living at her house
+ idc it's useless anyway to let ur PC on the whole day while not even being at home

Parent

Your pc doesn't waste that much of electricity. And yes, my pc's been on since last 2months. I see no reason to shut if off for a while unless I'm on a longer than a one day trip.

ps. Nice whine yesterday when we played against you, twinzz and richi or so.

Parent

well I always have to whine when I play with twinzzy tbh, he is totaly retarded and always searching the wrong players to play against. And I didn't even know that richi guy xD

And finnish guys are unhitable! atleast most of them are for me, dunno why but it's true. (you can test at my place :P)

But in the real life twinzzy is a nice guy, but online he is just a complete retard. But thats because he has his ego online because he played with some known guys, jay lets all be happy for him.

ps. I had to laugh when I killed one of u unhits and said "die unhit die" (or smth) and right at that moment I got killed :D

And I don't care about having to wait 1 min to be able to play ET. And PCs use alot of power, especialy when I leave my 2 CRTs on also :P

Parent

Well, ok, I might believe you. But how come that we, or at least me are/is unhittable? I got a 10mb/10mb internet connection without any kind of packetloss, lag or whatever. And there are no others in this house who use internet at evenings.

And no, I'm not a netset lamer so this whole thing makes pretty much no sense.

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I don't know, can be a general routing problem at one of our ISPs or where ever to packets we send come trough. They are going throu alot of routers etc.

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OR MAYBE YOUR SERVER JUST SUCKS

image: connections

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speed says shit about connection quality!

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YOU'RE DOWNLOADING pr0n

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blame the etpro netcode

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I think as long as you live with your parents you should respect them. And that is the same if your 10, 15, 20 or 30!

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+1

I live in their house and don't have to pay for anything (except my own stuff ofc), they pay me my food etc. So why shouldn't I listen to them if they ask me a small thing such as turning my computer oof when I'm not at home.

And when I let it on for downloads I put a timer :D "shutdown -s -t <time in seconds for download>" so my PC will shutdown when the download is completed :D

And I can understand my parents decission about having me to shutdown my computer, because I also have a brother and sister which own a computer. If we all had our PC running 24/7 the powerbill would be alot higher I think ^^

Parent

Now they only have to get you to smoking your shit drugs and you should be in the clear. ;)

Parent

they tried that :P

they busted me four times, and last time they where like ÿou aint going to stop so punishing you has no use" :D

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Why do you even do drugs in the first place? Living clean must be a much better alternative!

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I only use weed and sometimes hasj (almost the same), and I do it because I feel relaxed when I smoke a joint.

and being stoned is the cure for boring movies :D

and why do people drink alcohol? I almost never drink alcohol.

But I realized my weed smoking became an addiction and trying to smoke alot less (since last month) now it stays with max 2 joints a day. While before I used to be stoned 24/7 when I had the chance.

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I don't drink alcohol actually, I'm completly sober. But smoking 2 joints a day sounds really hazardous for your brain. I hope for your own sake you can find something better to do than waste your time beeing high and damaging your brain. :)

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why do people always think smking weed is bad for ur brain.

I used to get higher grades when I learned stoned

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I forgot, weed is good for the brain!

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well ofc weed isn't good for the brain also, but it isn't that bad as most people think. Most people asume that u are braindead when u smoke alot.

But the weed always helped me study, when I was stoned I was just looking into my books, not actualy reading but just looking in them. But your brain notices the words on the page automaticly and you remember them.

I even had once that I could see the pages in my brain during a exam and read them xD but I was stoned during that exam ^^

don't think the the same goes for every one, because alot of people can't even think straight while they are stoned. But alot of my mates tell me they also learn better while they are stoned, so it idd does smth with the brain which is good and bad at the same time.

But also playing football is bad for your brain when the ball hits ur head :P so if I smoke weed, play football or drink alcohol it doesn't matter. Almost everybody does some things that are bad for their brain.

And I can honestly say that I wished I never started smoking it, cuz now I'm addicted and it costs alot of money. I'm smoking weed for almost 5 years now, and lets say I spend a averige of 5 euro a day on it I've already spend around 9000 euro on that shit. I could have bought almost 4 kg of weed for that amount of money. While now i've only smoked around 1,5 kg of weed.

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mostly no. got used to the white noise.

The sound is fucking annoying

Thats why i also turn it off, except when i need some things quick (downoads)

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depends
its off @ night
on when im gone

Yes.

Yes, because my computer crashes for some reason if I don't.

never turn it off, makes no noise anywayz

Usually yes, but sometimes I leave it for downloads, but there are times that I plan to leave it but the sound somehow pisses me off so I turn it off again, and on other time it doesn't annoy me at all! Life can be really intriguing sometimes!

no

nope =)

if im not downloading anything i turn it off

generally turn it off if not downloading - and try not to do that too regularly ;)

I leave my pc on, only reboot if I need to (software updates, changing hdd etc)

Think of the Environment!!!

Think of the children!!

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save the trees, burn all books!

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ofc yes :s

nope, average running time before rebooting is like 3 weeks.

always have the pc in my room aswell, totally used to the noise. feels oddly quiet when it's not on

but for what sense? i mean if you render something or do downloads - ok - but otherwise?!

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I sometimes download, mostly it's so I have 0 seconds of waiting to do what I want to do.

Say I see something that I want to quickly search for in an advert break on TV, I can run up, search google and run back down again.

I don't like waiting 40 seconds to boot and then an extra 10 for firefox to sort itself out

I also leave chat programs running constantly so people can leave me messages whenever I'm away

Parent

I have to say that I pretty much exactly agree with you. It's so much easier to just turn the monitor on instead of waiting a minute to boot.

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I let my monitor auto switchoff so I can just move the mouse to get it back up. It'll basically 95% fully turn off tho after say 30 minutes

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Well, to be precise I've got that too. Didn't even remember it while I was writing my previous comment. :p

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since I switched to windows, and because its summer, I generally turn my PC off when I goto sleep unless I am grabbing a big file/torrent, which is pretty much the only time it turns off

for the chat issue, I have finch and irssi running in screen on a dedicated server, and on boot putty opens and connects and I can see what I've missed

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why would switching to windows make any difference? lol

I have irssi in screen for my uni irc network but no way could I have it as my main irc client

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why not? its the best irc client ive ever used :\

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I want to say it's not full featured enough but then it is quite powerful especially with all the scripts.

not everything is suited for cli tho :P

mirc+nnscript can show me a hell of a lot more information in one go than irssi and also I can get to and list a lot of shit easier in it

Parent

i doubt nnscript can show that much more :|

Parent

the power of gui :O supporting multiple windows :P

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irssi can split windows too! :(

but its useless arguing, because the ease of use of a gui certainly wins. For bored teenagers like myself though, learning irssi's commands/shortcuts isn't really an issue and i get a client which i can use more efficiently than mirc \o/

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same :D

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LOL :D

btw, is there any way to watch the uptime @ windows? ;o

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yes ;X

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mind telling me?

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you sir, are a bad person.

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UpTime 2096834 sec (24 days, 6 hours, 27 min, 14 sec)
So, the answer is no.

[meez@daedalus ~]$ uptime
15:42:45 up 53 days, 16:40

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yes.
it isnt worth it, because my internet gets disconnected twice at ~3:15.
so no downloads and stuff.

leave it always on

I turn it off when I goto sleep because I am not a dumbass

still in most of ur posts u manage to come out as one

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loled pretty hard :D

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xD

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BAN THE PANDA KILLERS

I turn it off if i'm not downloading cause it's pretty fucking loud..

it's off most of the time now that im at vacation lol

normally i put it in hibernate

laptop btw

I used to leave it on for weeks, but now I feel like being economical and stuff, so I turn it off at night. I also turn off the monitor when I'm away for longer than 30 minutes.
During summer you can really feel how much heat it generates, so if it's off my room is a bit cooler, too. Annoyingly hibernation mode doesn't work anymore (can't connect to the internet after booting) :L

when i go on 3-4 hours its on, longer than 4 hours and night off

Nope.
Because i sleep in other room.

No, I want to get my anime torrents ready in my lifetime. I shut down my computer for 5 minutes once in two weeks. Also I can't sleep without the noise of computer, it's way too silent here otherwise.

Every night, waste of electricity and it heats my room up too much.

Depends on if I have something to download.

yes, since i use a ventilator to cool it ^^

I put my PC on sleep, and close the lid on MGP.

24/7 ON

depends on if I have something to download

Where is the option "I dont have computer"
oh wait who would vote for this will vote "No", so the whole poll is pointless !

always off if I'm not DL'ing or running some scripts

It's on even if im not downloading anything. Ussually reboot is a must, or when i change smth in my hardware, highest uptime on my old pc was over 4 months, when i left it and went to the states. See no point in turning it off or reboot'ing, which is the same for me.

Rare. Mostly I use auto shutdown to finish my downloads and to be able to watch some shit, while trying to fall asleep. In past, I let it turned on 24/7, because of my laziness to wait for the 30 secs boot time. But my computer sounds like a hummer driving through a jungle, so it disturbed my sleep. :D Furthermore it was heating up my room to a sauna, especially in the summer.

no, i dont

I only keep my PC running during my sleep when I am downloading something at that time. Whenever I am AFK and not sleeping I just leave it on.

I don't really mind the noise my PC makes, I get used to it while trying to fall asleep most of the time. Sometimes it's really loud though and I tend to turn it off then.

more no then yes

sometimes.

i leave my computer on over night, as fusen said i'm just used to the noise now. i leave it on to torrent (upload mainly)

only real time i turn it off is when my girlfriend sleeps over hehehe!

Yes, when I actually have my own place and a stable net connection, because I prefer leaving the PC on to having a BNC. And downloads are nice too. Back when I had a small box-room at uni, my PC also doubled as my heater...

The hardware strain issue is an interesting question - I think the marginally preferred theory is that the most stressful point for the hardware is startup/shutdown, so by leaving the PC on it has a lower chance of failure.

And to those of you who say leaving a PC on overnight doesn't use much electricity, you're idiots. A decent gaming PC uses up to 300W even when idle (more like 500 when at full load). In UK terms, assuming an extra 12 hours use a day, that's a cost of over £10 a month, which, for a smallish property, is probably at least 30% of your electricity bill.

I think your numbers are a bit high; my box needs less than 200 W with both tft's on (420w psu).
It's still a lot of energy a computer uses up though :|

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I turn off my computer over night, just because I cannot fall asleep when it's still on

In case I want to download, we have Network Attached Storage Device on our LAN network which is something similar to a server, and it has a torrent/download client. So in case I want something to be downloaded, I just go to the NAS, configure it and it downloads all night long whilst it is 50 metres away from me. easy. :)

every night, if i dont download anything

When I'm at home I've to keep it off because my mam makes me pay the electricity bills. Those who say it doesn't waste much power have obviously not seen an electricity bill recently. I will generally only use my normal PC if I've to download, game or work really fast. I will never leave the computer on just to download something, it's a waste and I try to use my little laptop for as much as possible.

At university I don't have to pay any utility bills and I've a much faster internet connection, so I will tend to be slightly more liberal/wasteful but I'd rather switch a computer off and on multiple times a day than keep it on all the time.

I won't keep my computer running without actually doing something with it / at it as I am paying the bills. I even turn out lights and switch off monitors when I am leaving the room.

Yes.

well sometimes yes because its laptop and when im driving around - i dont need it.

yes i turn it off every night, unless when i'm doing something big, like rendering video or downloading pron from torrents :p

couple of years ago, it was almost never off...

always shut down

sometimes

ofc! better for the environment!! :)

I always shut down my pc.

I do because I must. It makes noise like a small quarry. I wouldn't be able to sleep.

Barely ever, I'm always leaving it on overnight to decode AVI to DVD

years ago my pc was 24/7 on (dling porn, wowglider etc) but now its always off when im away for a longer time

ye, I can't stand on any noice while I am sleeping

when sleeping at night, i switch it off cos i dnt see the point in leaving it on while im asleep [unless downloading or doing something with it overnight], otherwise always on, even if im not home.

Ofc why not... Its not like im gonna waste power by leaving it on when i go to sleep + the pc is in the same room as were i sleep so i don't wanna be bothered by the noise. And on the attic i have a serv for DL so there wouldn't be a reason to leave it on anyway.

Yes. Think about the environment boys n girls!

I only turn it off when I have no active torrents, which is like never. : - (

I always turn it off when im sleeping or away.

I dont see any reason to let it on
Furhermore i cant sleep with the noise

I'm online 9+ hours a day and after that it's off for sleep

I turn it off for the night but it's usually on the whole day, starting from morning -> night time.

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Why the hell should I leave it one and wast energy so I (my parents ^^) need to pay even more.

Noe warum?

never

Always off.

yes

Global warming incoming :o

I cant sleep without the fan noise!

NO!! NEVER!!

IF YOU TURN THE COMPUTER OFF, IS LIKE KILL HIM!!

is...euthanasia!!!!!

nooooo!!!

I turn it off when I sleep or when I leave appartment (happens rarely).

Yes.

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