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It is second nature now, I don't even mean it as promotion. Just a "Oh yeah, Mac does it this way which makes it really nice and easy" thought.
And there are things Mac OS X isn't great at. Finder for one is pretty crap, even Windows Explorer is better.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Who is using the hibernate or suspend feature? I normally put my computer in standby or hibernate (notebook).
Tosch
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I can't get it to work properly with vista and dont' care enough to find out why, when I attempt to use it the computer just comes out of hibernation immediately after going into it on it's own. My quad core boots so fast that it's just as easy to shut it down anyway.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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its probably your mouse/keyboard. in device manager make sure in the mouse and keyboard properties the checkbox saying "allow this device to bring the computer out of standby mode" is NOT checked. 
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Hmm..well not both though right? I'll try it with the mouse, it's always had a mind of it's own.
Thanks for the suggestion.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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I use hibernation (on Vista) and it works well.
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I hibernate my laptop, with WinXP, but needed to patch it first as I have 2Gb RAM.
Works well.
Steve Jowett
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool, is only despised only because he is an 'I.T. Consultant'
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By the time you hibernate the machine, if you have Visual Studio open via source safe.. then it tend to act weird this is true for VSS and Vault
L.W.C. Nirosh.
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
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I just put my PC into S3 standby mode - it gives you the best of both worlds! Resumes in under 3 seconds and uses barely any power
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dannyres wrote: and uses barely any power
Just like those millions of "barely power consuming" TVs, HiFis, DVD players etc.
Shut if off mate.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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As I do shut down my computers more than during weekends/holidays but not every day, a fifth alternative - Most of the times would've been my choice [if available].
rgds /Jonas
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I work from home and have dev boxes, a linux server, a 2k server (glorified pc's really) and my primary workstation that has its own db's running on it not to mention it does its backups, vscans, etc... nightly while I am sleeping so it doesn't bog me down during the work day.
However, all 3 pc's are running off a KVM on one of my monitors, I use 3-19" flat panels on my primary w/s, and I do turn the monitors off every night.
And being a developer working from home, my wife and kids are all computer junkies!
So add 4 more computers to the mix for the family. But they all get shut down when not in use.
So I guess I would fall into the Most of the times category seeing the majority of my pc's get shut down nightly if not longer! 
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The single word form is a noun: "Please start the shutdown of the computer."
The separate word form is the verb: "I will shut down the computer."
Same goes for "Log in" versus "Login", and "Back up" versus "Backup".
So the survey question should read:
"Do you shut down your computer overnight?"
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"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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Oh, shutup.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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or should that be shut up
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That was the wholepoint. He was using sar casm.
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What about shut-up (with a hyphen)? Or, if you are text messaging can you use…"su" or "stfu"?
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Paul Watson wrote: up
Good antonym of down. 
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Well, I'd love to answer it, but im awake overnight - so I shut it down over-morning,  ;P
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I maintain about 30 PC's a a private school and I try to have the staff shut douwn in the evenings. In a dusty environment having then run 24/7 sucks in a lot more dust into the cases than running 8/5.
Jay
Springfield, IL
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Nice info
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to shutdown
I shutdown
you shutdown
he shutdowns
we shutdown
you shutdown
they shutdown
Works perfectly no ?
V.
If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... And don't be late. (Jimi Hendrix)
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Welcome to english.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote: And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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