Surprisingly I have been running Windows XP for "20 days, 19 hours, 55 miniutes, 34 seconds"
All I have to say is WOW....lol
Can anyone beat that.
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Surprisingly I have been running Windows XP for "20 days, 19 hours, 55 miniutes, 34 seconds"
All I have to say is WOW....lol
Can anyone beat that.
the most i got is 129 days before
Nice.
WOW 129 days that is unheard of lol.
That means that someone isn't patching...
I never get past a month.
When I'm not using my PC, I'll put it in standby. So, technically, it's not shutdown, but it's not "on" either. Would that be considered "uptime"?
I guess that it counts. Its still running just not "on".
Any Windows will happily run for a year or so.. As long as you don't try to run any other software on it.. ;)
Can anyone explain why you would want your machine "up" for that length of time?
Do you pay the electricity bills?
Do you have the faintest idea of health and safety?
Do you care about your environment and the legacy you are creating?
Or is it just the usual pathetic grade school "bragging rights"?
I await intelligent responses with interest:D
Hi
Well at present my system is up for 1 day 7 hrs (not of anyones interest)
But i want to point out an interesting thing. This up time is accumulated over a period of 3 days which means that even though the system shows an uptime of more than a day it might actually not be.
And why ......... say thanks to hibernation. Technically the uptime is the time between two reboots. Atleast win xp sees it that way.
My system has been up this long because i dont pay electricity bills :) my school does. It is my personal computer in my compsci class.
Not sure why this would affect health though (Can you please give me some insight Nihil)
And honestly no I don't care abouth the environment. Also I doubt me turning my computer off is gonna save the invironment anyways.
as stated earlier.....I guess updates are not important...specially on a network :rolleyes:
guess you are tseting how infected it can become ;)
MLF
My sysadmin does all the updates....not my problem.
your system admin does all the updates on your personal computer....
and that is not your problem.........
ummmm...interesting
MLF
It is the schools computer but i am the only one who useses it. At my college everyone in the compsci building gets there own computer that no one else touches. When the systems need patching or updateing the sysadmin does it.
I do for one box because that is my file/print server and remote access machine. I also seed torrents from that box.Quote:
Can anyone explain why you would want your machine "up" for that length of time?
Yes, unfortunately.Quote:
Do you pay the electricity bills?
It's no longer safe to keep you're PC on? News to me...Quote:
Do you have the faintest idea of health and safety?
Don't understand how much damage you can do...Quote:
Do you care about your environment and the legacy you are creating?
I wasn't bragging... but I do have a want (not need) for as much uptime as possible. The only time I'll turn that box off is if I'm going camping or going to be away in an area where I know I won't need remote access. That only happens maybe half a dozen times a year. I have to be away for at least a weekend. If I'm only gone one day... I'll leave it on.Quote:
Or is it just the usual pathetic grade school "bragging rights"?
Never said they were intelligent. But they ARE responses. :)Quote:
I await intelligent responses with interest:D
Systeminfo | Find "Up Time" from the command prompt shows a whopping 1days, 3 hours, 7 minutes, 39 seconds for my XP box.
Yay!
--TH13
Turning your computer off might just be the difference that allows one carbon producing power station to be removed from supplying power to your area of the country at that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by kryptonic
So yes, you could make a difference by switching it off.
I still don't understand how if i turn my computer off it will stop carbon producing power stations or whatever. but ohh well its still on and the uptime is still growing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simple Simon
I'm not actually saying that it would, more that it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it could. As a simplified example, I am Simple Simon after all, lol ...Quote:
I still don't understand how if i turn my computer off it will stop carbon producing power stations or whatever.
Let's say before you powered up your PC your areas electricty supply was delivered by exactly 3 carbon producing power stations. When you power on your PC there is more demand for electricity than can be produced by the 3 current power stations. So, to supply enough electricity a fourth power station needs to be utilised. Now then, if you switched off your PC, now that it's on, that fourth power station wouldn't be needed.
Does that make sense?
Ahhh ok i got you now....yes it makes since but i still don't care about the environment lol
so leaving em on creates health issues?
i leave my linux server on all the time unless im rebooting for updates/checking for boot errors or that kind of thing. other than warm my room up a lot, i havent noticed any issues. can anyone expand here? ive heard of microwaves possibly causing cancer, but not powered on computers....hmmmm
Hmmmm,
My point regarding safety has nothing to to with microwaves:D it is a simple observation that any electrical device that is in a "powered up" state is a potential fire hazard. I do not like leaving things "on" for that reason. I have personally only seen a 5250 dumb terminal catch fire but I know of two people who have had PCs catch fire.
At one place I worked, I collaborated with a guy in health and safety and we estimated a saving of about $90,000 per annum by switching stuff off at night and the weekend.
I would estimate a personal saving of about $300 per annum by not leaving TVs, computers and the microwave on standby, and by using energy saving lamps. I would personally rather spend that money on beer................
I think that you really do have to be careful with laptops............. remember that they are designed for intermittent, rather than continual use, and that most lithium batteries are rather unstable. Dell recently recalled over 4 million and Apple over 1.5 million?
Also, most energy is still generated by burning fossil fuels..............those are limited resources and are pollutive.
I am only expressing the same views as the US DOE have been for the last 10 years or more ;)
Nihil- So what about standby mode? They are still pulling power.. Now you may say, but I hit the button to turn everything off.. That doesn't mean it is not in standby. Do you unplug your microwave, vcr, DVD, cable box, TV, etc... from the wall after everytime you use them? if not, they are powered on and have juice running through the power supply...
My power supply stays powered on in my computer unless I physically unplug it or flip a small switch on the back of the power supply.. So technically, even though the computer is turned off it is still pulling juice and could still have a fire threat.. So if that threat really worries you, you should make sure that none of your consumer devices run in standby mode.
Hi mohaughn,
I am in the UK, so I suppose our wiring is different? we have 3-pin 13 amp 240~250v 50 cycles.
There is a rocker switch on the wall socket that cuts the power just like the little rocker switch on the back of the PSU...........except that the cable is not live.
;)
1. Server?Quote:
Can anyone explain why you would want your machine "up" for that length of time?
Do you pay the electricity bills?
Do you have the faintest idea of health and safety?
Do you care about your environment and the legacy you are creating?
Or is it just the usual pathetic grade school "bragging rights"?
I await intelligent responses with interest
2. Yes
2. Um, no.
3. Well, uh, I mean...
4. Mycomputer is better that your'n.
5. Good luck.
P.S. I would check the uptime on my Debian box, but I would need
a sundial calibrated in decades.
Lol @ Rcgreens comment about the sundial and what not
Sigh.. I don't care, why do I matter? If the environment is totally fscked in a 100 years I'll be dead anyway.. This is exactly the reason why the environment is fscked up as it is..Quote:
Originally Posted by kryptonic
You, turning off your single machine probably will go unnoticed, yes. If 2.000.000 people stop being egomaniacs and turn theirs off the world will definitely notice!
Muhahahahahahahahahaha....................
rcgreen........... I accept your comment about servers, but would politely draw your attention to the post's title.......... "XP uptime"?........ if you use XP as a server I don't wonder your avatar is "The Scream" :D
SirDice I think that you feel like John the Baptist..........so do I (although I was named after John the Evangelist)....... "a voice crying in the wilderness"
Whilst the USA, China and India continue with their disregard for the environment, I am afraid that us poor EU types are wasting our time?
:)
usually my xp can stand up 1 month average ~ it not goes down due to XP failure (usually) - instead it goes due to power failures.
About nihil questions: :)
Can anyone explain why you would want your machine "up" for that length of time?
p2p (bt & e-mule) 24x7 seeding and sharing here.
Do you pay the electricity bills?
yes. But its very cheap here :)
Do you have the faintest idea of health and safety?
Those computers are in a room. Usually dark (and unattended). They have all kind of protection, including gas...something lightning protection. No fire danger here.
Do you care about your environment and the legacy you are creating?
Bah, we dont use fossile fuels or related to generate eletricity here. 90% of power are generated by water falls... So, i'm cool about that :)
Or is it just the usual pathetic grade school "bragging rights"?
I left school a looooooooong time ago
I await intelligent responses with interest
You better have a coffee to wait one :P
That is VERY cool...Quote:
Originally Posted by cacosapo
MLF
We used XP for swing (migration) servers during rollouts. Theoretically, XP is as stable as any Windows server OS, but certainly lacking server features such as AD. If it wasn't for update reboots, why would XP's uptime surprise anyone?
Its surprises me because it seems like XP crashes alot. Although that was when I used to fill my harddrive with who knows whatQuote:
Originally Posted by brokencrow
any OS will crash if you fill up the harddrive...with whatever
and if you dont patch or upgrade...I am sure it is infected with...whatever
All XP pro\home machines don't crash...now I run some applications that crash...but the OS is very stable...I can usually control rogue processes via task manager
I also ensure I have the resources and hardware to support the OS.
MLF
I use it as a web server, ftp server, and telnet server.Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
Sure doQuote:
Originally Posted by nihil
not sure what the health risk is running a box 24/7. it just sits next to my desk..Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
sure i do. but i also care about running my own server. Maybe you can ask the ISPs, who use tons more power than i do, to please turn off their boxes when they aren't "using them"? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by nihil
I'm not surprised with the uptime at all. My computer stays on pretty much all the time for p2p and other stuff. I frequently get uptimes of close to a month since the only reboots/shutdowns are when I update or when I leave the house for a few days. XP is very stable most of the time. The only frequent crashes I've ever experienced with XP have been hardware or driver issues. That's not to say the OS never crashes, but the number of non-hardware related crashes is less than one every 6 months.
Cheers,
cgkanchi
My record is 1.5 years. Last time uptime was only 10 months until DVD freezed up :(
definetly no patching going on there ;)
MLF
Sure, but i'm not working with Administrator rights + antivirus enabled + regular spyware checks.Quote:
Originally Posted by morganlefay
SPs and patches not only are for security...are also for functionality...and fixes...
could be the reason your DVD crashed.
MLF
Dallas,
Do I have some screensavers and programs for you! ;) A recent test I performed with 500 odd pieces of malware found that only about 40% of them were detected by AV. Most of these _critters_ will install and run as a standard non-admin user. AV aint gonna help you like maybe you think.
No patching, no plugging the holes.
I found most of the problems I see are due to buggy drivers and/or poorly written programs...including MS own Office apps. :(
LOL Rico
I totally agree....cheap hardware, bad drivers and badly written apps....
although they do keep me in wine ;)
and yes limited accounts get just as infected if you are using an unpatched operating system ...or application ;)
MLF