Card on fire

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 06:24:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-07-11 23:23, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I consider myself very lucky, as I leave the machine on 
>> all the
>> time. I was sitting next to it when it burst into flame, and 
>> cutting the
>> power put it out. In the future I plan on cutting the time for 
>> it to go
>> into hibernation. Fortunately it's a metal case that doesn't 
>> burn, but
>> I'm still thinking about bending some tin to act as baffles 
>> over the
>> vents, and setting it on a metal plate.
>
> I put my computer into sleep mode when I'm not using it for a 
> longer period of time. It seems to shutdown everything but 
> keeps some power to keep the data in RAM alive. So it turn back 
> on instantly.

I turn it off every day. If the OS is up too long (several days), 
it starts to act weirdly and may crash at the most inconvenient 
time (is there a convenient time for a crash?). All OSes are the 
same in this respect, I think Windows is the worst, but Linux and 
OS X are not much better in this respect. Must be some sort of 
memory pollution.