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by Fernando C Mendizabal Jr

Play Dead

Filed under: Gadgets — Pipboy at 8:47 am on Friday, December 15, 2006

After 21 days without restarting Zoom (my laptop), I unwillingly had to restarted my laptop this morning.

A Software Update got past me while I was eating breakfast and when I got back, it was bugging me every few minutes to restart my computer for the changes to take effect.

So, there, much to my dismay, I had to restart.

I don’t like restarting or shutting down my laptop because:

  • It takes longer to reboot than to come back from a state of hibernation (assuming I hibernated my laptop with a few light applications only). For a road warrior like me, every moment that my laptop spends on a still flat surface is limited and therefore, precious time.
  • With the internet browsing, programming, presentations and documentation that I do for a living, my laptop still performs well without restarting in between uses.
  • This longest non-reboot thing is an ongoing contest between my laptop and Roland’s iBook

In decreasing preference, I’d rather hibernate (laptop plays dead) than go to standby (laptop lies in wait, consuming battery power over time) than restart.

* The 21 days stated above is inclusive of the time I use my laptop and hibernation.

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Comment by hip2b2

December 15, 2006 @ 9:20 am

i believe my longest so far is only about 15 days. i think. it could be longer because the only i have to restart Linux is when i upgrade the kernel. every time else hibernate works.

maybe i should start “not shutting down”.

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Comment by Ealden Escañan

December 15, 2006 @ 10:54 am

I prefer hibernation as well. I also reached 21 days I think. In comparison, I’ve kept my desktop (which is on Windows) on for that long as well, without hibernating.

I suppose that’s one of the changes I had to work through when I went to Windows XP for the first time 5 years ago: it’s a lot more stable and I don’t have to reboot on a regular basis anymore.

Still, I stopped being anal about the reboot thing. Esp since Windows gets updates every month or so. If I need to reboot because of updates or because my system is already sluggish I do so.

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Comment by reiji

December 15, 2006 @ 11:23 am

It makes me wonder why people with laptops prefer to give their laptop names. It somewhat sounds like an “electronic pet.”

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Comment by Jonats

December 16, 2006 @ 6:49 pm

It’s how women give names to just about everything from phones, cars, boys, stuff toys, and other kikay things.

So men can too as long as it doesn’t make them gay.

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Comment by wowenkho

January 2, 2007 @ 10:24 am

haha. actually, restarting the computer has some advantages as well, but i’d rather not mention as they are several. ok, at least one thing i can say is that from a hibernation, my computer becomes sluggish compared to rebooting where everything appears to be faster.

another thing, it’s funny that you guys are annoyed at long reboots. :/ hehe. there are many ways you can make your reboots faster. in fact, it depends on how you optimize your computer often, like take off trash, defragment your drive, weed out dead registry entries and all that stuff, and do some inner settings tweaking on windows. hehe.

pipboy, by any chance, does your windows logon screen bar loops 10 or more times before you actually go to the “windows is starting” screen? hehe.

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