Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- Subject: Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:26:24 -0500
On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Emmanuel wrote:
(Tell us what you want to do, we'll tell you why you should not.)
Wouldn't it be enough for your purpose that you have the disk and
monitor sleep, not the processor? Your computer is silent, it does not
burn much electricity, but the CPU is still awake.
Indeed there should be some hope that I can do what. But I'm still a
bit doubtful. Here is my objective: wake up to iTunes. Its a pretty
simple thing. I cobbled together a script that starts iTunes and plays
a random song (mostly using found code), and I set up Scheduler 3.2.2
to run this script at the time I wanted to wake up. No luck: it seems
to put it into a queue of jobs to execute when the computer wakes up.
Do you think that I would have more luck if I used the
Unix command "at"? I haven't tried it (a) because like I said, I'm a
newbie and (b) because I worry that it might have the same effect of
putting iTunes into a queue. Well, I'll give that a whirl. In the mean
time, tell me what you think I might be able to do. It would be pretty
awful if there was no way to break the sleep barrier.
For the sake of reference, we recall that Jon wrote:
You can't wake the computer up from a script, since if the script is
running, then the computer is awake, and if it isn't awake, then the
script isn't running.
Now, you may be able to schedule a time for the computer to wake up,
but I don't know how.
Is it really true that if I wrote a script that said "wait 8 hours and
then run iTunes" that it might not actually run iTunes
til the computer was awakened (say, 10 hours later)? Bizarre.
Joe
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