On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 10:19:34PM -0400, John Mort wrote: > weather full screen. This would work even better if the BIOS enables > the machine to start itself in the morning. You could set it to turn > itself on shortly before you wake up, and turn itself off shortly > after you're normally out the door, and save a lot of power that way, > while being able to know what the weather is like without having to do > anything extra in the morning.
Alternately, set it to: a) "Always on"... You can short 2 pins on the ATX connector to make it default to always on, it's easy (and safer than "short" makes it sound) b) Set the bios to "last state" c) If it's really old, it's AT, and you can just leave it on. then hook it up to a non-dimming standard timer and run it from a read-only filesystem (livecd or just set the hard drive up to be RO). A read-only FS won't suffer any ill effects from being turned off randomly. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 There's too much blood in my caffeine system!
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