From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: magicus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The longest Emacs uptime Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87vdm0xvyn.fsf@gmx.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247291458 22702 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 05:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:50:58 +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 07:50:50 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 1MPVTy-0001iV-On for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:50:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPVTy-0004l7-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:50:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19vHBU/pGjhBk8tqZplxW2ap7haxp5kHCxlZ3a0XRoJX8LxdDAnWils+fRmWFgrYeot+SfTOgonM6eeELbG4vx0Zr3IRjKNt5pP7peldwghWeYm7H071a6fZ96jH92suE0= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:43:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+9WYeSicyU44g0t9cd3GGN9a5R2BvXECw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:r45iwK7RfGNyX9nFHfnHaMIHrgc= User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170736 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:47:16 -0400 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:65940 Archived-At: 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)? ciao, f -- "A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised." -- Tom Robbins