[P1] Does the Clock Sleep?

[Erik Gilchrist]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:24  PM, iBook List wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:36:28 -0400
> Subject: Re: [P1] Does the Clock Sleep?
> From: Larry Kollar <kollar at alltel.net>
> Message-Id: <7946ED78-B348-11D7-A810-000A9585B842 at alltel.net>
>
>
>> And can an iBook--or OSX in general?--really do things while
>> *sleeping*?  Cf unix cron jobs run while the computer is on and
>> running,
>> not while sleeping, right?
>
> I don't think it can. I tried to get cron to do a huge download
> (OpenOffice)
> overnight at work, but it never woke up to do the deed.
>
> Then again, I can't seem to get "at" to do anything either (and yes,
> I've
> put "atrun" in root's crontab).
>
> --
> Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
> "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
> -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc 
>

Sleep is just that. Sleep.  Do you as a human wake for a task to do a 
job?  Nope. Sure you don't, just as you wake FROM sleep, but you do not 
do this job in your sleep. (sans sleep -walking)

Sleep is Sleep, plain and simple. Time off for the circuits and just 
enough power to stay alive and not be born (not born again) --  simply 
wake from sleep.

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