I use a program called gshutdown, available in the repos. Basically, it's just a GUI for the command line shutdown, but I like to watch a film when I go to bed, but often fall asleep. What I do is load up gshutdown and my film, and tell gshutdown to turn off my PC after a delay (the length of the film). What you could do is tell gshutdown to turn your PC off at 2am, or to turn it off after a delay of 3 hours, or whatever. It's a very handy tool, in my opinion.
2009/4/8 doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com> > Hi -- I (sort of) noticed a while back some marketing gumph that suggested > that Ubuntu servers can be configured to reduce power consumption when they > are not under heavy load, and was wondering if something similar was > available (generally, I mean, not *just* for Ubuntu) for domestic use. > The obvious case that springs to mind is when I have a long download going > & want to leave my PC on overnight. > (Currently, I generally don't, as I feel bad about the energy I'm wasting.) > So would it be possible to leave a download going & in some way put the > rest of your computer to sleep to save on power? > Is there anything that does that? > Cheers, > Doug. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net
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