On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for an outlet I can turn on/off under software control.
> Does such a thing exist? I have a few applications in mind -- a
> long-running script on my laptop/PDA that would automatically turn on the
> charger at (say) 10% and off at 95%; and a cron job that would turn on my
> lava lamps at $TIME1 and off at $TIME2 (they take a while to warm up).
>
> --
> The mnky gibbering and screeching used to keep me up at night, although
> in the lst week or so it's prtty mch tailed off to nthng. The smell has
> gttn noticbly worse in the last cple of days, too. The next time I get
> a barrl full of mnkys, I'm going to try taking the lid off. -groo, AFCA
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No one else mentioned it so I guess I will. :P
Unless your laptop uses a ni-cad battery, which would be very rare these
days, doing this to your laptop would shorten it's battery life
dramatically. May I ask, is there some reason you would want to put your
battery through this?
-- Clayton Holloway
"It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so
afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent...
..To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the
offense. ( Miller, 1993 , p. 4)
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