• Re: The stay home and not

    From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to MRO on Thu Jun 9 15:50:54 2022
    Re: Re: The stay home and not
    By: MRO to Arelor on Thu Jun 09 2022 07:30 am

    my mobo is supposed to be military grade.
    i think that's just BS though

    Yeah, it sounds like a marketing scam XD If it comes with ECC memory then the chances of getting RAM corruption because you left it on for long get astronomically low anyway.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Thu Jun 9 17:03:40 2022
    Re: Re: The stay home and not
    By: Arelor to MRO on Thu Jun 09 2022 03:50 pm

    Re: Re: The stay home and not
    By: MRO to Arelor on Thu Jun 09 2022 07:30 am

    my mobo is supposed to be military grade.
    i think that's just BS though

    Yeah, it sounds like a marketing scam XD If it comes with ECC memory then

    no there are actual different grades of electronics and military is one spec.

    my memory i put in myself.
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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MINDS3 to Arelor on Fri Jun 10 20:27:35 2022
    Re: Re: The stay home and not
    By: Arelor to MRO on Thu Jun 09 2022 06:42 am

    I just hibernate my laptop to get the same effect. It's slower to start becaues I've chosen a spinning hard drive, that and the laptop is itself old, but if I just hibernate, it only loads a ram image from the disk, an is back up. Only takes several seconds. No need to boot the computer ea


    i'm afraid of memory holes. i just leave the computer on and locked.

    I don't know.

    If you are using consumer grade hardware (ie. cheap laptop) then the chances of producing a non-correctable RAM error are low but non trivial.

    I don't have the numbers here but if a certain RAM card produces an error per every 4 GB per every X hours of operation, the more time you leave the computer running the higher the chance you hit a RAM error.

    Consumer grade hardware is not designed for running 24/7. You can do it but I'd certainly prefer to shut it down when not in use XD

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    Very unlikely that such an error would cause a problem. I did use a computer which had dodgy RAM, and that could cause the occasional crash or corruption, but even then it was usable.

    I switch it off for power saving, and because it is less wear and tear on the hard drives if they aren't spinning. My rule of thumb is if I' not going to be using the computer for more than 30-60 minutes or more, I switch it off, otherwise if I'm just walking away for a bit, and will be back, I'll leave it running.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Boraxman on Thu Jun 9 08:38:00 2022
    Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Besides, this laptop takes IDE drives, not SATA.

    That does make it challenging. I did find an IDE SSD a couple of years back for an old Thinkpad T42 I couldn't bear to part with.

    Best. Laptop. Keyboard. Ever.

    Even though you're still limited to IDE transfer speeds, the lack of appreciable seek time made a huge difference.


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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MINDS3 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jun 11 12:26:07 2022
    Re: Re: The stay home and not
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Thu Jun 09 2022 08:38 am

    Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Besides, this laptop takes IDE drives, not SATA.

    That does make it challenging. I did find an IDE SSD a couple of years back for an old Thinkpad T42 I couldn't bear to part with.

    Best. Laptop. Keyboard. Ever.

    Even though you're still limited to IDE transfer speeds, the lack of appreciable seek time made a huge difference.


    ... Where is the center of the maze?

    It is the best laptop keyboard. I've been spoiled. Using other laptops is just painful in comparison.

    The HDD speed is fine. Bootup is sluggish compared to my desktop but hibernating solves that problem. Most other programs I use are light, so it really doesn't make that much of a difference at all.

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