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.
>
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