Leaving Mac On -- Advantages / Disadvantages
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From: Warren Oates on 23 Feb 2010 07:50 In article <jollyroger-9E547D.16244322022010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > I'll go ahead and put you into the "complete idiot" category now. Gawd, it must be lonely to be you, JF, so much wiser than everyone else .... Vous vous préparez une triste vieillesse, mon ami. I have to leave the Mac Pro on 19 hours out of 24 to do backups because the morons at Apple only allow one scheduled on/off event. I can write a script as root that will cyclicly manipulate the pmset settings, but I don't imagine you know what I'm talking about and you'd rant about "root is evil" for 40 lines. Oh, right, I'm in your kill-file. Damme. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Jolly Roger on 23 Feb 2010 13:21 In article <4b83cf22$0$24392$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-9E547D.16244322022010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > Nothing any one person does can save the planet. > > > > I'll go ahead and put you into the "complete idiot" category now. > > Gawd, it must be lonely to be you, JF, so much wiser than everyone else Nah - there are plenty here who know that nothing any one person does can save the planet. I suppose, from your reply, you're not in the group though. Luckily, despite what you may think, you fools aren't the majority. > Vous vous préparez une triste vieillesse, mon ami. You're the lonely old man, here, buddy. I'm not old at all - not even half done yet! And, thankfully, I'm not lonely by any stretch either. : ) > I have to leave the Mac Pro on 19 hours out of 24 to do backups because > the morons at Apple only allow one scheduled on/off event. > > I can write a script as root that will cyclicly manipulate the pmset > settings, but I don't imagine you know what I'm talking about and you'd > rant about "root is evil" for 40 lines. You don't have much of an imagination if you think a seasoned administrator wouldn't know about pmset, or would think root is evil. I have a dozen or so scripts on my hard drive that touch pmset in one way or another. ; ) > Oh, right, I'm in your kill-file. Damme. Yes, but I happened to show killed posts today. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: David Empson on 23 Feb 2010 17:21 Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have to leave the Mac Pro on 19 hours out of 24 to do backups because > the morons at Apple only allow one scheduled on/off event. Not exactly. (I'm sure Warren knows this already as he is familiar with pmset, but others might be interested in this detail.) The PMU/SMC supports one set of _repeating_ on/off events (with different times for each day of the week). This can be configured via System Preferences. You can also set up a list of one-off _scheduled_ startup/shutdown events, but there is no user interface to access this feature. It can be controlled via the 'pmset' command line tool (in Terminal). See 'man pmset' for details and look for the 'schedule' subcommand. As Warren implied, to automatically start up or shut down the computer more than once every day, you would need a script to run every time the computer started up (or periodically while it was active), which ensured the next pair of scheduled startup/shutdown events were ready. One use I've seen for this is with EyeTV: if necessary, it will use pmset schedule to start up the computer in time to record the next scheduled programme. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: George Kerby on 23 Feb 2010 19:01 On 2/23/10 12:21 PM, in article jollyroger-AFE19D.12210023022010(a)news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <4b83cf22$0$24392$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> In article <jollyroger-9E547D.16244322022010(a)news.individual.net>, >> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> Nothing any one person does can save the planet. >>> >>> I'll go ahead and put you into the "complete idiot" category now. >> >> Gawd, it must be lonely to be you, JF, so much wiser than everyone else > > Nah - there are plenty here who know that nothing any one person does > can save the planet. I suppose, from your reply, you're not in the group > though. Luckily, despite what you may think, you fools aren't the > majority. > >> Vous vous préparez une triste vieillesse, mon ami. > > You're the lonely old man, here, buddy. I'm not old at all - not even > half done yet! And, thankfully, I'm not lonely by any stretch either. > : ) > >> I have to leave the Mac Pro on 19 hours out of 24 to do backups because >> the morons at Apple only allow one scheduled on/off event. >> >> I can write a script as root that will cyclicly manipulate the pmset >> settings, but I don't imagine you know what I'm talking about and you'd >> rant about "root is evil" for 40 lines. > > You don't have much of an imagination if you think a seasoned > administrator wouldn't know about pmset, or would think root is evil. I > have a dozen or so scripts on my hard drive that touch pmset in one way > or another. ; ) > >> Oh, right, I'm in your kill-file. Damme. > > Yes, but I happened to show killed posts today. Oates is a well-documented fool that thinks everyone has kill-filed him. Trouble is, he is soooooo idiotic that it is fun to watch his 'performances'. How 'bout this Global Warming?!?
From: Wes Groleau on 24 Feb 2010 01:15
George Kerby wrote: > Oates is a well-documented fool that thinks everyone has kill-filed him. His behavior makes that a reasonable assumption, even if not completely accurate. -- Wes Groleau After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong. Finally, the boy replied, "That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys." |