Stupid computer question for the geeks

I dont think I understand this. What is being lost? Do you mean heat?

i only reboot if things start getting screwy or applications start failing for no apparent reason, and it usually fixes it. There are so many bugs in software and it always seems to be me that finds them.

what you gain is a fresh start, a spring clean. why don't people shut their pcs down overnight anyway? it's not like they are using them.

It doesn't make any sense! I understand that code is code -and people have to work -and so on and so forth, but it just gets really complicated. I am an idiot.

I refer to the computer I am on -the wheezing one - as the BIG computer. it's sort of the grown up. Top computer!
Have I mentioned that I am an idiot?

the wheezing has stopped, by the way. Just because I pulled it one inch towards me, and insisted that it take me to ILX.
Thank you!

That's what I do with mine! Yes, it makes a horrendous VTOL-style noise when it starts up, and keeps going until I bash it. Is it just the fan is in loose? It's take it apart and tighten everything tonight, I reckon.

Well, you have to think of it differently - the computer DOES write down all the information, it just does it in a different way. Fortunately, it is happy to translate the info back from the 0s and 1s stored in its innards into something you can read.

The fan usually comes on because it thinks it's getting too hot. If it's been doing intensive stuff (not just web browsing or email or whatever) it can get hot. Also it can get hot if it's sitting in the sun, or next to a radiator!

There were these two Russian brothers who for a brief while had assembled the most powerful computer in the world inside their apartment in New York. (Te movie "Pi" was (very) loosely based on the New Yorker article about them. The article is amazing if you can find it). Anyway, this computer had parts in almost every room, so that the whole apartment was like some kind of electronic nest that they lived in. One of the things about computer processor chips is that the faster they are, the hotter they get. So these brothers had actually gone out to a hardware store and bought little cheapo fans, angled strategically in different corners of their apartment!

neil young? because he has an anti-tehnology stance?
That grammy nominated song made me cringe for him.
I can never leave!

Young rowed Nash to the middle of his lake. His roadies, meanwhile, set up a pair of concert-sized speakers, hauling one into a barn on the far shore. They placed another by a window inside the house. As the opening bars of Out On The Weekend began to filter across the water, Young busied himself with co-ordinating the volume levels from the boat, yelling, "I need more barn!" one way, then "I need more house!" another.