As far as the turning on part goes if her computer supports wake on lan your computer (or a router) could send it a wake up signal at a specific time using a cron job (or similar). John On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 23:07 -0600, Josef Lowder wrote: > . > How can one make a computer turn itself on at a scheduled time? > > While I leave my computer on 24x7, I'd like to set up my wife's > computer to come on at 6 am so it will be all ready for her to > check her email in the morning before she leaves for work, and > then (with power management) have it turn itself off an hour after > she stops using it (when she leaves to go to work for the day). > No sense having it run 24x7 when she only uses it for about a > half hour every day. > > Yes, of course she can turn it on and off, but it would be great > to make this automatic. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss