Hey, I'm sorry it's useful and all that, but this is what I've been meaning to write every since getting my PowerBook. I'll try to do better next time. Brita sez, “Auntie Em! Auntie Em!”
Put this faceless background application in your extensions folder and reboot. When you are plugged into a battery charger, I modify things so:
• you are in non-rest mode
• System sleep is 15 minutes
• Hard disk sleep is 15 minutes.
If you are not plugged into a battery charger, I modify things so:
• you are in rest mode
• System sleep is whatever you set it to be via the Portable control panel
• HD sleep is whatever you set it to be via the Portable control panel
Thanks to the youngest attendees this year:
Brian Gaeke
Brian Phillips
Brad Seaman
of the Cincinnati Country Day School for the name and icon design. Bryan “Marketing” Randolph, also of CCDS, just wanted his name in the credits. Thanks also to Mike Engbar, Tim Dierks, and Jim Luther for reassuring me that I wasn't crazy while debugging this stuff.
--Brian Bechtel
blob@apple.com or BLOB
Change History:
1.0 First release for the MacHack Hack Show
1.1 Remove all the DebugStr() calls so real people can use it without installing MacsBug
1.2 Clean up source. Add check for existing portables, so that we don't try to muck about on machines we don't know. Restore user settings when quitting. Released the source to the MacHack CD.