The problem with that at least here would be that there are only 2 outlets in this house controlled by a switch. Neither of them are in a suitable location unfortunately to be effective, but you do have a valid point for sure. Now it might be cheaper money wise to tap off an outlet and put a switch on it in the long run, but that would require some demolition of wall board ETC if I understand you correctly. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips
So, I was thinking about these smart strips a little more. For me, one problem would be that I still use an external speech synth. The synth has a battery, on the Dec Express it is internal, on the MiniTransport it is easily removable. But, on the Dec Express, when the power is turned off at the powerstrip, the Dec continues to operate on the battery, so you would still have to turn it off separately from the computer. Secondly, rather than having a smart strip, could you simply have an outlet that is controlled by the light switch in the room, plug your regular stupid strip into that socket, then when you leave the room, and being a nice green person, you would of course, shut off the light, then the power to that outlet would be killed and all peripherals would die quietly. Wouldn't this achieve the same goal? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
