[thelist] help with windows batch or windows script file

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 15 18:24:13 CDT 2002


David, what am I supposed to be grabbing on that page? Its the home
page... but good idea for #3 ;)
--- David Dorward <evolt at david.us-lot.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
> "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > My wife and I like to listen to a particular station on Windows
> Media
> > Player at night. Often, we zonk in progress.
> >
> > I wanted to write some kind of batch file or script file that I
> could
> > run before I went to bed that would essentially do this:
> >
> > 1: shut down media player
> > 2: shut down the computer
> > 3: give me a backrub (optional)
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html
>
> Stick it in whatever the windows version of cron is (does X at time
> Y), windows shutting down should kill Media Player.
>
> Wire a relay in between the computer power supply (where it hocks
> in
> to the wall socket), set it up so when power is going to the PC the
> electromagnet keeps the relay's switch to off, when the power goes
> off
> the magnet stops, the spring pushes the metal against the contact,
> power flows, and the back massager you have plugged in to it is
> activated.
>
> <tip>
> While being non-free VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/) lets you have
> half a dozen (or more) versions of Windows installed at once. You
> can
> put a different version of IE on each to test pages in different
> versions.
> </tip>
>
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