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Po'Mans Energy Saver
Authored by: bluehz on Jun 17, '02 11:09:08PM

I downloaded wakeonlan and sleepnow over a month ago and never got around to installing them and working through them. This article gave me the impetus to get it all going. Its now working great with G4 and iBook.

My intention was to write a cron script to fire off the wakeonlan from the iBook every morning to wake up my main machine G4. One of the things I miss most in my everyday routine using OS X is my morning routine of drinking my coffee while perusing all the Mac news pages that had been pre-loaded via applescripts, etc. The missing component of course was the "wake" factor - I prefer not to leave my G4 on all the time as it generates a fair amount of heat and in general I don't want to waste the electricity. I don't mind leaving the iBook on though as it probably draws much less current and definitely generates less heat.

What I am getting at is that if you have two machines - it might be possible to achieve the above "morning coffee" routine again - using a few simple scripts and the iBook as one expensive alarm clock.

Shame on Apple for not getting us the energy save we have used for years and come accustomed to...Apple...you let us down....IMHO....



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