Closing Lid When Not In Use

This may be a silly question, but I have never seen anyone inquire about this.
I usually leave my Mac Book open while sleeping and rarely close the lid, as it is used more as a desktop rather than a portable. Is it wiser to close the lid when not in use to protect from dust or is it wiser to leave open to prevent any wear and tear of frequently closing the lid?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

i think you should always close it because it prevents dust and it was made to open and close i close mine when moing from room to room and no problems i think the people at apple know that people close LAPTOPS and they would build a strong hinge

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Is Chromium Spying When Not in Use?

I just learned of a tool called "nethog", installed it and watched to see what programs were generating traffic on my computer. One of them was chromium, which is funny because I wasn't using Chromium.
I've known for some time thanks to "top" that chromium runs when I'm not using it. I thought that it was annoying, and that it embedded itself into some autostart file, and was just taking up memory so that it would launch faster for when I actually opened it. However, I never suspected that it was generating network traffic when not in use.
I've since uninstalled Chromium, but I ran whois on one of the IPs that it was connecting to. It was Edgecast, a "Content delivery" service owned by Disney.
Is anyone else seeing this?
Last edited by Convergence (2015-04-13 06:22:56)

Convergence wrote:
So to be clear, other people are experiencing this, and are OK with the idea that Chromium is running, and communicating with websites when the browser is closed (and hasn't been opened in weeks across multiple boots)?
Sure it is open source, but it is also big, complex, and created by a company that is very interested in harvesting your data. I tend to think of Google as a benevolent giant, and I have a certain amount of faith in the open source process, but you could probably hide a small city in chromium's source code, or an vulnerability the size of the San Andreas fault.
Heh, maybe I'm paranoid, or maybe I am after all the only one that experienced this after all. But to be honest, programs running without my explicit permission, phoning home in ways that I could not easily control or understand were a large part of the reason that I left windows so many years ago.
Actually it does have your permission and it *can* be useful. You can just deactivate it with unticking "run in background". I like it as I'm sometimes too lazy to open up another mail program and thus just fire up GMail and get notified of it – even when not running in foreground.
So yeah, there's a not-spying reason for it but we can't really know whether this is the only reason ^^.

Leaving applications open when not in use

This may be the world's dumbest computer question but what effect does it have on the OS to leave applications open on the dock when not in use? Any? Apps such as, e.g., Office 2008? Does it slow the OS to have apps open when not in use? Or perhaps no effect unless using them? Does it matter if Safari is left open after logging off a secure site?
I've been compulsive about closing what's not in use but I just installed Office 2008 and Word and Excel, for example, are slow to open so I'd like to just always leave them open on the dock.
Sorry if this is just too dumb. I searched but didn't find anyone else who had asked. Maybe everyone else knows.

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Should I turn off my Mac Pro when not in use or leave it running?

I have been told I should never turn off my computer by some people, and others say that I should always turn it off when not in use! I use my Mac Pro primarily for music recording/editing in my home studio or word processing. Now that I have an iPad I use that for web browsing, email, FBing, etc. and I find myself on my Mac Pro a lot less. I get the basis behind both trains of thought; those who leave it on feel always stopping and starting up puts unnecessary wear on the moving disks, and those who shut down think if the parts are always moving they are bound to wear out faster. I am not as concerned with conserving power as I am with keeping my machine safe! If you have any information on this topic I would love to hear it. Thanks!

Providing you have a robust firewal and are not worried as a result about being hacked then leave it turned on and allow it to sleep. Make sure you allow the screen to sleep as well a that is the item that is more prone to damage by being left on all the time.
I never turn my machine off, never have with any of my Macs ever since my first one back in 1979-ish and have never suffered any adverse affects. Today, the power drain is so small when allowed to sleep that I doubt they would offend even the ardent 'turn off everything and pull out the plug to save the planet' person.
If you have an iPad or iPod synced with the Mac for email and iCal and address Book etc. then if you leave it on it should be up to date as soon as you return home, mine is anyway. With iCloud coming out very soon that may come into play even more so with all its advance pushing etc. Just a thought.
One advantage in leaving the machine on (sleep) is that you can access it from anywhere in the world should the need arise with the appropriate settings, which you can't if you turn it off.
Leave it on.

Am I supposed to leave the display plugged in when not in use?

should the display be left plugged in when not in use? is it just like leaving the power cord to the MacBoold Pro plugged in when the computer is off?
thanks

Sure, you can leave the display plugged into the socket, provided you turn OFF the display itself. There must be somewhere some switch or touch button that will turn the display OFF.
Usually, those displays use a lot of power, so it's better to save
I shall add an unrequested piece of advice: if you don't this already, please use some kind of electrical surge protector
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protector> to connect your computer, display, printer, router, etc to the wall socket.

IPhone resets itself when not in use

I have an original iPhone which has been updated to 3.0. Since the update I've noticed that the phone will spontaneously restart itself when not in use. When this happens I'll notice the screen light up with the silver Apple logo and then go blank. This will happen repeatedly. While this is going on I can't use the phone until I plug it into the computer. Once iTunes does it's thing the phone will return to normal for a while - sometimes a day or two - before repeating this behavior. I have reset and restored the phone but without solving the problem. Apart from this everything seems to be working properly.
Any ideas?

Have you tried restoring and setting up as a new phone (i.e., not restoring from a backup)? Sometimes those backups bring along whatever is messing up your phone.

Set 2520 printer to turnoff when not in use

How do you set the printer to sleep when not in use?
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The HP Photosmart Energy Save Mode reduces energy use by entering a sleep mode after 5 minutes of inactivity.
The time to sleep mode can be extended to 10 or 15 minutes.
NOTE: This feature is on by default and cannot be turned off.
To set Energy Save Mode
1. Touch the Setup icon.
2. Touch Preferences.
3. Scroll through the options and touch Energy Save Mode.
4. Touch the desired time interval (5, 10 or 15 minutes).
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When To and when NOT to use cursors

Can anyone please refer to a good resource about When to and When NOT to use cursors.
I have search on line but I haven't find anything really good.
Thank you.
H

If you can do it in a single SQL statement (one UPDATE or whatever), that will almost always be more efficient than a loop construct.
If you absolutely need a loop, bulk operations (BULK COLLECT, FORALL) will be more efficient than row-by-row processing for any significant number of rows.
If it is a relatively small number of rows, I would then weigh up the simplicity of a Cursor FOR loop (although Regarding the creation of simple cursors).
btw I loved that comedy Forms 3 article, but surely April 1st isn't until Saturday?

IMac (Oct 2009) keeps shutting down and restarting when not being used.

At least once a day, usually when not being used, I will see a dialog box that say computer had to restart due to a problem. data in problem report does not clearly state problem - many multi-page entries
Have reinstalled OS 10.8.2 once
this morning tried to restart with safe boot and had spinning beach ball for more than 15 minutes. shut down and restarted nin recovery mode. verified and repaired permissions (all seem to be related to Canon Pronter plug-ins- had an error message yesteday asking if I wanted to repair printer software and I said yes). Printer seems to be working. Had one statement that indicated a screensaver issue-see below
a while back, iTunes album art screensaver hung up with just two album covers flipping in all rows and columns.
after a few restarts, it started working correctly again..- yesterday I set screen saver to never, but still had a crash this morning

Here's the latest panic report. BTW, I ran for a while from an external system boot - very sloww (thumbdrive), but nothing happened. However, when I retarted I tried to restart in Safe Mode and the launch never completed (30 minutes without start)
Tue Jan 1 07:15:40 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8002443908): "zalloc: \"buf.8192\" (878 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:1826
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
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0xffffff800aafb320 : 0xffffff8002443908
0xffffff800aafb400 : 0xffffff80024de8d8
0xffffff800aafb450 : 0xffffff80024de395
0xffffff800aafb500 : 0xffffff80024dd64b
0xffffff800aafb530 : 0xffffff80024dd7f7
0xffffff800aafb550 : 0xffffff80026e7766
0xffffff800aafb5c0 : 0xffffff800272024c
0xffffff800aafb5e0 : 0xffffff8002721314
0xffffff800aafb680 : 0xffffff800271d2a0
0xffffff800aafb790 : 0xffffff800271959c
0xffffff800aafb840 : 0xffffff800271936a
0xffffff800aafb8c0 : 0xffffff80025137df
0xffffff800aafb910 : 0xffffff8002509fe1
0xffffff800aafb950 : 0xffffff800252685c
0xffffff800aafba00 : 0xffffff8002526679
0xffffff800aafba30 : 0xffffff8002712518
0xffffff800aafbaa0 : 0xffffff8002511c46
0xffffff800aafbae0 : 0xffffff800250936c
0xffffff800aafbb90 : 0xffffff80024fbb49
0xffffff800aafbc40 : 0xffffff80024fc314
0xffffff800aafbf50 : 0xffffff80027e182a
0xffffff800aafbfb0 : 0xffffff80024ced33
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker
Mac OS version:
12C60
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel slide:     0x0000000002200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8002400000
System model name: iMac10,1 (Mac-F2268DC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 39390380895329
vm objects:17562048
vm object hash entri:2264400
VM map entries:6216720
pv_list:19034112
vm pages:74043792
kalloc.32:1826816
kalloc.64:170766336
kalloc.128:649785344
kalloc.256:648183808
kalloc.512:2285568
kalloc.1024:2637824
kalloc.4096:2387968
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buf.8192:7192576
ubc_info zone:3559464
vnode pager structur:1978800
Kernel Stacks:1982464
PageTables:44011520
Kalloc.Large:12347186
Backtrace suspected of leaking: (outstanding bytes: 236544)
0xffffff80024435b9
0xffffff80024245ed
0xffffff80027ee1bd
0xffffff80028507f7
0xffffff800285075b
0xffffff7f82b6b1ac
0xffffff7f82b72922
0xffffff7f82ab138b
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My ext HDs spin too hard when not in use , how do I slow em up ?

some externals have the smarts about them but others just wizz too hard when not in use , old macs had a processor setting I could change , but not MBP
I should be able to tell these HDs to chill till I call on them right ? thanks for any help[ you can offer me .
cheers R

You don't. You have no control over the spin rate of any hard drive.
To encourage the external drive(s) to spin down when they aren't in use, System Prefs > Energy Saver > check the box for "Spin down hard disks when possible." But you'll find that the OS checks in on those drives quite frequently, spinning them back up again. So the likelihood of their spinning down very often or ever staying quiescent for long is small.

I downloaded the new 7 update and now my iPad won't charge to 100% and loses power even when not in use ?

i downloaded the new 7 update on my ipad. it now will not charge to 100% and loses power even when not in use. any solutions ??

Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps BEFORE doing the reset.
Then plug it in and let it fully charge.

How can I get firefox to shut down automatically when not in use for an hour

How can I get firefox to shut down automatically when not in use for an hour

Sorry, there is no feature for that built into Firefox, and I haven't seen an add-on to add that feature to Firefox.

Firefox crashes when not in use then I have to reboot my computer

Firefox crashes when not in use then I have to reboot the computer.
It will not come back on line and the only way out of this is to reboot the computer.

See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.
* http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/
# Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102
# Java Plug-in 1.6.0_12 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the [[Managing the Flash plugin|Flash]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
Update the [[Using the Java plugin with Firefox|Java]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java
*http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html (Java Platform: Download JRE)

Leave iPhone in charger when not in use?

Can you overcharge an iPhone? Shall I keep it in the charger when not in use?
Thanks!

You can not over charge the battery by leaving it plug in for long times.

Should I shut down my computer when not in use

should I shut down my computer when not in use, overnight for instance?

Hello! Leaving it on 24/7/365 is perfectly acceptable. You may save some electricity but personally I think you'll pay for it with a more troublesome system. I do however set the monitors to go to sleep. I like the no startup lag time of running 24/7/365. That said, if I lived in an area prone to electrical outages or if my location was prone to lightening strikes I'd probably shut it down and unplugged. Of course with it being unplugged the pram battery may run down. These old G4's have been running 24/7/365 for years now. I do try to restart every few weeks just for good measure! In the end it's your preference. The hardware works best when a constant temperature is maintained. Tom

Closing Lid When Not In Use

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