Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
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Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
I knew Rosyna would post, so I wasn't too worried about posting an essay...
Nicely written... :)
>>Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>You're wrong :) THe MacOS has Energy Star, it allows both the monitor AND
>computer to sleep (suspend) it turns of the monitor, spins down the
>harddrive, rests the pprocessor (and drops into MacsBug but you don't know
>it :) and when you do anything it wakes up and emits a beeping noise so you
>dont think it crashed. As for turning itself on and off, Auto Power On/Off
>does the job, tell the mac to turn on at a specific time (Mine goes on at
>5:30am) to turn off at any time. all can be set for weekdays, weekends, any
>day of the week. Say you like to check email when you wake up. First write
>an AppleScript to check time and if the time is right do something, then
>Tell the Mac to turn on as your alarm clock (Make some funky noise) run the
>script (should be in startup items folder) and check email (The Mac
>automatically starts TCP/IP when an App calls for it, of course this is
>optional). Autopower On/Off can also turn your mac back on if the power
>goes out.
>
>> OnNow is a hardware specificiation that allows the computer to go into a
>> low power mode when it is not being used. When the user is ready to
>> use the computer again, s/he hits a button on the keyboard (,mouse,
>> etc) and the system instantly returns to the state it was last left in.
>> But the extent of this goes much beyond the simple "Suspend" feauture.
>> You can schedule your computer to return to a normal state and, for
>> example, have it dial-in and retrieve any new e-mail or internet updates.
>> In a network enviroment, a sysadmin could "turn off" all the computers by
>> hitting one button on the server and turn them all back on just as easily.
>> This is one feature that has me excited. Going around to 50 some
>> workstations every night to turn them off and having 50 some machines in
>> the morning to turn back on is not fun. In addition, previous power
>> management schemes would lose their network connection as soon as they
>> entered power saving mode. As such, I've had to disable APM on all the
>> machines in our labs and inform profs and facuilty to do the same (either
>> that or have to deal with a mob of faculty in the morning unable to access
>> their e-mail).
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>developers for which it stands, one platform, under Guy, indestructible,
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