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- DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+70Why do people make stupid animations/videos that you're forced to watch at their pace instead of just putting text so you can quickly browse through it?
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60This is how Picard defeated the Borg. It's a trap.
- Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -37/+91And doesn't this mean anyone else can put your mac to sleep via email too?
- luddep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+48What is the authors email?
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40@MacManiac23 -
"therefore only you, or anyone with ur email, or anyone who can spoof the From: headers can put it to sleep"
FIXED - brasso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Stay tuned for lesson two; How to shut down your buddies macs via email.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Wouldn't just sshing be easier? You don't have to do any setup, just
you@work:~$ ssh you@your_IP
you@home:~$ sudo halt/sudo hubernate-disk/sudo hibernate-ram - deviouster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Gotta love seeding torrents with your hard drive off!
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Video tutorials are the worst feature of WastingTime 2.0
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Mine is set to sleep automatically after about 20 minutes in the interest of saving some electricity.
- econoar, on 10/12/2007, -15/+28Or you could just set a really unique subject in the rules and no one will know it....
- ASoE, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21Why are some people thoughtful enough to make videos in effort to help others understand.
- chedabob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10By the way, its Ooo-boon-to
Read the Ubuntu website, its got a pronunciation bit. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You have to download it, which you can do here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/sleep.html
- jubilee123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Next, click on System to display the Sleep action you downloaded earlier."
? - zwei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You may not want to make your machine sleep. You can take the same principal and have your machine do any specific task that you can script. Like take a picture with your iSight and email it to yourself so you can see what's going on at any specific time.
- zwei, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@switch22
yea ...anyone you tell the exact details to. "Hey buddy, if you spoof my email address and send an email to blah@beefsmuggler.com with the subject line 'sleepie weepie' then my machine will go to sleep" ...gee ...can I take THAT risk!?!?? - PRocker267, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6why dont you set it so the email body has to contain a certian string of text (I.E.. a PASSWORD)
- dgblackout, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8i've got mine on all the time, only the hard drives and the display turn off.
seeding torrents :] - mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Of course macs can do that.
I think the point of the article is to set this up, and in case you go on a trip or something, you can set it to sleep. - dgblackout, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7does anyone actually turn their mac off?
i don't even turn off my macbook, uptime of over a week
the only time i reboot is for software updates. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You can set Macs to do that too, if you'd like.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Automater is one of the good things about the same company making the hardware, writing the OS, and most of the "normal" applications on it.. To create a similar application for Windows, or Linux would be damn-near impossible given the huge range of software people use on Windows..
- zwei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@lamcitizen
no, especially if you are behind a router ...or if you don't know your IP. Before I joined dyndns.org I had a similar script that I used to retrieve my current IP. It would run an applescript that would get the current IP then it would email it back to my email address at work. I also had one that retrieved the current status of my F@H unit and emailed me the results. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also, this is completely voluntary. If someone is attacking you with sleepmails, just disconnect from the net and remove this rule. :/
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There are some things that lend themself to video tutorials (Tutorials for image editing/visual effects/3D applications, for example), but ones dealing with scripting are silly to do as video - For one I can't copy/paste from a video..
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Err, ActiveX controls can do anything on the system, this script can only invoke a preset command (To put the computer to sleep). Also, ActiveX controls can be run no matter who their sent from, with this setup it'll only run if it (appears) to be from an certain email address you set..
- diggimurf, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3link to the whole article. http://murphymac.com/sleep-your-mac-by-email
The author of this post linked right to the video which doesn't explain where to download the action. - bigkevheck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you don't need the pause or don't want to download the Automator action, just have the script say this:
tell application "System Events"
sleep
end tell
You wouldn't even need Automator to sleep it immediately. I am not sure if there is a way to pause an applescript. - bigkm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i put mine to sleep with ssh this alias makes it a lot easier,(no sudo required)
alias sleeep='osascript -e '''tell application "System Events" to sleep'''' - pb3623, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are we so obsessed with carbon footprint that I simply cannot be caught leaving my computer running while I am at work? Can I email my stove and tell it to turn off? Can I email my dog and tell her to "hold it in" since I also forgot to take her out? Have short-term memories gotten this bad?
Anyways, if anything, I leave it on when I go out so I can convert videos... - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just add a rule that executes every received email as a script. Imagine the fun possibilities! Make sure it runs as root or it isn't as super awesome.
- AstralAutomaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You know I wanted to set something up like that for my dog but I haven't been able to convince him to switch to a Mac yet. Silly dogs...
- ibis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can do stuff like this in Linux easily. Don't think there is a gui for it though.
- joeycerone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sleep isnt even an option available in my automator? weird.
- corequadro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2KeiichiMorisato, you just have to be careful reading and understanding texts.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's Ooo-boon-too? I have always thought it was "you-bun-to". Now that's why my colleagues has been sending me thoose wired looks...
- walshbj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can use the controls beneath the screencast to hop bubble to bubble.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I would prefer to hibernate the mac rather than putting it to sleep.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2KeiichiMorisato needs to work on his reading comprehension.
- MurphyMac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4luddep -
I've already gotten a few emails with people trying to sleep me!
But as other diggers point out, unless someone knows the 'code' words you used and the from address to spoof, it's very unlikely that anyone will be able to hack you with this. In a way it's more secure than ssh because it looks like a plain old email instead of a login session. Sniffers are less likely to think the email is a way into your system than other kinds of traffic they could be watching.
I would use a string other than sleeper too!! - stoops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3More secure than an SSH Version 2 server with 2048-bit DSA Public/Private Key Crypto logins only, which set up an AES symmetric block cipher alorithm in Code Block Chaining mode with a 256-bit key?
Hmm, I should really try out this "strong-email-command" scheme. - Meowbiusfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never turn mine off because once I programmed my Pandorabot
to do all the major tasks,he simply pops up a few times a day on my Ichat and asks me if
I want to do things,( like an update manager does for a browser.)
I could just use the update manager too,but Ken Olay Bisquitbarrel is my preffered method.
He is still in developement at http://demo.vhost.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-oddcast?botid=ad917710fe359eed - blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Human: Do you like women?
Ken Olay Bisquitbarrel: Women seem nice to me.
Human: Does ***** seem nice to you?
Ken Olay Bisquitbarrel: I think it does ***** seem nice to me.
Same old ***** "AI" based on Eliza/Alice - amoona, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1why dont you set it so the email body has to contain a certian string of text...
http://www.dreaminguy.com http://www.smilenut.cn - redwallhp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What if someone else emails you an email with that in the subject (would be really bad when you were using the computer...)? It might be better to have the subject line, then have it check the message content for something that would be less likely too (like a hexadecimal color code followed by the words "digg rules".
- cabazorro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wake up your mac by sending command:
perl -MNet::Wake -e "Net::Wake::by_udp(undef,'macaddr')" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's how it's done in OS X, too, except OS X smartly disables remote logins to root, so you have to use sudo from an administrative user account.
And of course, that that won't work if the ssh port is blocked at either end, whereas the email trick will. - PHovey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've set mine up so that you can put the mac to sleep from your cell phone too. Just send an email to yourself from your cell phone and use that email address to create a rule that automates the sleeper script as well
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