From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The longest Emacs uptime Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:44:51 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87vdm0xvyn.fsf@gmx.ch> <87ocrsjavn.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247298051 1980 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 07:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:40:51 +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 09:40:44 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 1MPXCO-0002PT-38 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPXCN-0004Q0-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19mNBU7wU78tNdMJ01YvUqOd0SmJGiyy9NHwut+UXpD/sFYXNv5lpZYz7Y02cS2ZsMWBj6ipbDs45/fqEhTUZktKg51b1jTGXwcKEb/q2ibjR+8E/I/sq+2PPf5nDM98RlEcNmehVfPLch7BIov2kol Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:49:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18dgohhE8h5oNKBYkavw3gLpPtyFJL0IfOVTdSFcN/MHw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:llogDOM2az0/mb5qgapnwbgKR2E= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170740 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:65941 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > 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... To use it only some of the time? Like a car or an iron or a ... maybe?