[Cialug] scipts/php app for wakeonlan

[Claus]

On 12/4/2007 2:58 PM, David Champion wrote:
> Thinking about this thread... having the users hibernate the PC 
> themselves sounds like a decent plan to me. Personally I don't like the 
> idea of automating startup & shutdown, but that's probably because I 
> don't follow as strict of a schedule as some people. :)
> 
> My old workstation was booting really slowly - and once it booted it was 
> sluggish for about 5 minutes, even if I disabled most of the startup 
> stuff that I could. It wasn't a slow PC really - 2.4ghz P4 with an IDE 
> drive. I upgraded to a core2duo PC with a SATA drive, and it boots 
> really fast. It could be that the old PC would have been better if I did 
> a fresh install of XP, but it was getting to be about 5 years old and I 
> was due for a new PC anyway.
> 
> -dc

I always ended up having problems with hibernate on desktop computers. 
Strangely my laptop does fine.  At work I use the bios settings to boot 
my computer every weekday morning.  The only drawback is you still have 
to log in which takes time as well.  At home I just leave the computer 
running.  Too many services want to do work when the computer is idle. 
So if you put the computer into hibernate then all that work has to 
happen when you're trying to use.  (Btw, all are MS Windows computer.)

   Claus