Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
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Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
Hey! what about me? :)
Thats alright...You must have just gotten here...this has been one of the
smallest off topic discussions... :)
Grant
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bart Pola wrote:
>
> Really? I'm impressed. Though, our Macs are fairly old...perhaps before
> the time this was added?
>
> Apoligies to the TI group for all the non TI stuff I mailed out...I
> thought I had my "Do not reply to all" option on.
>
> Thanks for the Mac update, Rosyna.
>
> -Bart
> Pola@cns.uni.edu
> Windows NT System Administrator
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Rosyna wrote:
>
> >
> > >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).
> >
> >
> > ---
> > I pledge allegiance to the Mac of Apple Computer Incorporated, and to the
> > developers for which it stands, one platform, under Guy, indestructible,
> > with creativity and multimedia for all.
> >
>
>
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