Longest amount of time your computer has been off.

[DSHwrd]

OK, I'm about to go to Basic Training, so for 8 weeks my Computer will be turned off... ::cries:: 8 weeks away from a computer, that's gonna be difficult!

Anyways, what's the longest your computer has ever been turned off for, and why?

Also, is there any reason that leaving it off for that long will cause any 'glitches' or anything (with the display, or whatever). I have a TiBook867 w/ 512MB RAM. I'm thinking about doing a re-install of OS X the night before I ship off.

Cheers,
- Daniel

[rusto]

If it's not on and it's not plugged in, I can't imagine anything software related happening to it during your absence...apart from some of the software becoming 8 weeks out date (hehe).

On the hardware side, an idle computer is probably a safe one as well...well not from someone spilling a large coffee on it or something.

[JayBee]

Basic training? In what, dude?

[wayneyoung]

When I went to Korea, my stuff was shipped, lost, and found again. By time I got it and turned it on, six months had passed. The computer started up and ran just fine. I am in the Air Force, have been for eighteen years. I hope you enjoy your time in.

[DSHwrd]

Originally posted by JayBee
Basic training? In what, dude?

Air Force. I was going to be a programmer but I got a 67 on the test (didn't finish the last 30 problems... grrrrrrr!). The test is 130 questions in 90 minutes... Not so easy. The test was easy, I just didn't finish. :\ So now I'm going into the Electronics Aptitude area (meaning I have no job). I get a job at Basic.

Wish me luck,
- Daniel

[j|m]

That's an interesting thought. I got my TiBook 800 in September, and it's never been off for more than two hours since I've had it. Current uptime is only three days - credit that to a strange freeze-up involving putting it to sleep while using screen zooming (try it yourself!) At night, it sleeps (ultra low-power) and awakes instantly thereafter. This machine rocks.

[JayBee]

Originally posted by DSHwrd
Wish me luck,
- Daniel

Hope you don't die or kill anyone.

[Phil St. Romain]

Good luck and hang in there Daniel. Thanks for your many fine contributions to the forum.

[DSHwrd]

Originally posted by Phil St. Romain
Good luck and hang in there Daniel. Thanks for your many fine contributions to the forum.

Do I sense in sarcasm in that post? :rolleyes: Hehe. :) Sorry, couldn't resist. I think I've posted a total of 30 'useful' posts... come to think of it, I don't remember most of the posts I've made here... That's sad. :\ Time to do a search for my old posts!

Thanks all! I'll see you all in 8 weeks!

Cheers and have a safe and happy New Years!
- Daniel Howard

[jeffo]

my machines never get shut off at all, restarted, but not shut off.

Now with saying that my imac has been off for about 2 days due to an aftermarket harddrive problem.

[nkuvu]

I shut down my iMac for two weeks when I went on vacation. But other than that it's not off for more than a minute or so unless there's a power outage (kinda hard to avoid turning it off then, since I don't have my own generator ;) ).

[griffeymac]

G4 -- always on. (Unless it gets that fan vibration thing going and I'm not home, and then sometimes the wife gets tired of hearing it--all the way from upstairs--and comes and turns it off).

PC (XP) -- always on. Crashes waking from sleep sometimes, though. :mad:

iMac -- on about half the day. My son's computer--he likes having the screensaver on when he reads himself to sleep. I get nervous every time I turn that thing on--one of these times I just know I'm going to fall prey to the analog video board syndrome....

7300 -- same thing. Half the day. My daughter goes to sleep with the Sherman's Lagoon After Dark module each night. Just ordered another 128 megs of RAM for her today--not sure why...

Dell (Redhat 8.0) -- would be on all the time, but something is drastically wrong, and until I figure that out, it stays off because I'm tired of listening to the things' hard drive go on and on and on.

G.--