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: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247334049 23755 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2009 17:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:40:49 +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 19:40:42 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 1MPgYz-0004eH-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPgYz-00072K-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/9ik7Y7Ce51jcjUEGb4JzvyYVhrAzwoVP3uO7ieZaMPl9bOJNGlrCFjCjZwvx3P30CKtEDC/zKOYE8CAH0VJcMYBYS27UyV5OXYs2Uft6o6aOZRAUqP/9VLmetDctNKNI= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:02:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/RxhtxL0/oVvx0Ax8uzBJCrwoF+DfJVVg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:2HOrEZlVkVo70W14gZqRhKPcdIc= User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170759 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:65960 Archived-At: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:56:12 +0200, pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > 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... One (the Windows box) is set up and dedicated for recording/creating music, the laptop runs Ubuntu Linux and I use it when I want to do stuff out of the house and the last one (a desktop) also runs Ubuntu Linux and is my main box, I surf the net from it, do mail, read newsgroups, tweet, manipulate images etc from it. Occasionally I may have two on simultaneously running updates or rendering. ciao, f -- Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -- Isaac Asimov