Sep. 29th, 2007

Down South

Sep. 29th, 2007 12:06 am
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Father's 65th birthday, so I lied and told him I couldn't make it, then threw myself onto a plane at 8:00, got picked up by Mike at 10:00 and gave him a lovely surprise.

Am dead tired, and off to bed now though. May actually update about my life if I get the chance tomorrow.
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Mike is the lesser Peasant. You should see what the greater one has to wear..
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I just went out in two rounds. Which almost certainly means I'm destined for a silly hat next hand...
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Sat 29/09/2007 21:53 29092007208

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I was explaining to my mother the difference between "Standby" and "Hibernate" in Windows, and when to use each of them - and it occurred to me that many people might not know what they are, what the difference is, and how to use them.

Standby is dead simple - your computer basically goes to sleep. All the programs are paused, all of the peripherals (disk drives, graphics cards, etc) turn off, and it goes into a very low power mode that keeps the memory stable but does nothing else. That way when you tell it to power back up it can just pick up exactly from where it left off. You're still sucking up power, but on any modern PC it'll be a very small amount.

Hibernate is slightly more complex. Again, everything is paused, but then the contents of memory are saved off to a great big file on the hard drive, and then the computer actually turns off. When you turn it on again, rather than Windows proper restarting, the contents of that file are read back into memory and life picks up from where it left off. This takes a bit longer than restarting from standby, but takes up no power at all.

I tend to use standby if I'm popping out to the shops, and hibernate overnight - restarting entirely once a week or so, when Windows starts playing up (I've got so much pointless crap installed that strangeness sets in after a while).

Hibernate is visible from the shutdown menu if you press Shift, or just press "H" when you see the menu and it will go into hibernate mode. If that doesn't work then go to the Control Panel, open the Power Options and check "Enable Hibernation" on the Hibernation tab.
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Cheers to [profile] octopoid_horror for that one.

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