Re: The longest Emacs uptime

[magicus]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:56:12 +0200, pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J.
Bourguignon) wrote:

> magicus <magicus23@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:07:48 -0700, "Drew Adams"
>> <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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

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