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October 10, 2007 at 4:13 pm #164747Leapy LeoMember
I always switch mine off at the first hint of inclement weather now after a thunder strike that sounded like it landed in my garden blew my modem out.
Most inconvenient.:eek:
October 10, 2007 at 7:45 pm #164730DavidParticipant@sarahtowny 223800 wrote:
Oh and if we have a fire drill, we also have to turn them off, (someone goes around the building to check if we have.) But I know if we had real fire, the last thing on my mind would be shutting down the pc!
Any kind of repercussions that stem from not shutting down your computer during a fire drill would be worthy of a lawsuit, putting the safety of the computers over the safety of the employees extremely reckless. What happens if you don’t shut it down? Where do you work? How many employees?
October 10, 2007 at 8:10 pm #164742PolarBearNPRParticipantsarahtowny;223800 wrote:wondered if you would have the same answer with your work computer (if you work with a computer that is)Well – I work for the public schools on an antique iMac. It won’t let me do much of anything . . . and it shuts down . . . all by itself at 3:30. I’m not sure when it comes on again, but when I get in at 7:30 it’s there waiting; promising wonderful help with my teaching while disallowing whatever website I’ve been using for ages to teach kids that it now deems unacceptable – grrrr. Yeah – I have a problem with the censorship of my computer.
October 10, 2007 at 8:19 pm #164736sarahtownyMemberDavid;223808 wrote:Any kind of repercussions that stem from not shutting down your computer during a fire drill would be worthy of a lawsuit, putting the safety of the computers over the safety of the employees extremely reckless. What happens if you don’t shut it down? Where do you work? How many employees?lol I work for a law firm, I deal in litigation so your reply did make me giggle somewhat.
There are no repercussions just a ‘hey why did you not turn it off’. I wonder if they think computers would just blow up of something to intensify a fire, but maybe I should actually question this aspect of the fire drill. Like I say in the real situation the last thing anyone would actually do would sit a wait for a computer to shut down… unless they are totally stupid!
Will be on my to do list tomorrow .. 😉
October 12, 2007 at 12:36 am #164731DavidParticipantI don’t know how your laws work in the UK, but putting employees at risk for bull**** like turning off your computer would never fly here.
October 12, 2007 at 1:29 am #164740MrOatsMemberI tend to be sporadic about when I turn off my computer.
Ussually it’s “when I retire for the night”, but there are plenty of times where I just leave it on overnight (ex: downloading songs on iTunes over a 56K Dial-Up connection.):p
October 12, 2007 at 1:42 am #164746PhilipModeratorMrOats;223839 wrote:I tend to be sporadic about when I turn off my computer.Ussually it’s “when I retire for the night”, but there are plenty of times where I just leave it on overnight (ex: downloading songs on iTunes over a 56K Dial-Up connection.):p
Downloading songs over a 56K dial-up connection? And I thought I had it bad here, because my ISP caps the broadband bandwidth and it takes me about 2-3 days to download a full-length movie. 😡
October 13, 2007 at 12:30 am #164738NessaParticipantOn the poll I put what I do with my home desktop.
Now as for work, since I lock up my laptop, I just shut it down instead of leaving it on. I do leave it on when I leave to lunch, just that I set the screen saver that way I don’t leave patient information showing anywhere.
October 13, 2007 at 1:53 am #164745PhilipModeratorOne week hasn’t passed yet, and 17 people have already voted on this poll. Thanks a lot to all you people!
October 14, 2007 at 12:49 am #164739MrOatsMemberPhilip wrote:Downloading songs over a 56K dial-up connection? And I thought I had it bad here, because my ISP caps the broadband bandwidth and it takes me about 2-3 days to download a full-length movie.Well, I’m talking about multiple songs. (Like three or four) is when it takes about 1-2 hours. …This really slows down my connection so I’ll just leave it running. The time isn’t horrible, I just get impatient at the slowness and leave it. 😉
But 2-3 days for a movie?! *feels sorry for Philip*
October 14, 2007 at 3:17 am #164732TigerbladeParticipantof course, we’re all talking about free, legally available, copyright-free songs and movies. obviously.
October 14, 2007 at 4:11 am #164751ShrekMemberMy office machine – never but only monitor is switched off when leaving.
Home PC/server – always run
Laptop – whenever feel like. -
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