From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The longest Emacs uptime Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:56:12 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ocrsjavn.fsf@galatea.local> References: <87vdm0xvyn.fsf@gmx.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247276496 30479 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 01:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 11 03:41:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MPRai-0001y0-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPRai-0006vR-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:41:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp11-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YjMyM2ZlYTQ3N2E0MjhmNmFkZmQ5MDI5ZTViMDQzYjIzMTQ1ZjZmYg== Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jul 2009 02:56:13 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1247273773 news-4.free.fr 9365 88.182.134.169:65172 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170738 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65937 Archived-At: magicus writes: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:07:48 -0700, "Drew Adams" > wrote: > >>> > My Emacs uptime has reached 30 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes, 44 seconds. >>> > This is the longest since I started using Emacs in 2005. >>> >>> Elapsed time since the last power-cut: 2 years, 4 months, 21 hours, 34 >>> min. >> >> Elapsed time since the last >> `my-elapsed-time-is-bigger-than-your-elapsed-time' contest: 13 minutes >> 42 seconds. > > Thank you. My machine(s) go on when I am using them and are shut off when > I am not. I do not see any reason to keep them up 24/7 if I am not using > them. WTF is the point of doing so (unless one is donating idle time to > SETI or making BitTorrents available)? What's the point of paying for a computer if you don't have a usage for it 24/24 365/365? Better keep the money to pay yourself a cocacola on the beach otherwise... -- __Pascal Bourguignon__