Hi All
I have a patch running an installation on a Mac laptop running 10.4.9. The laptop is scheduled to shut down at night and start up in the morning. The PD patch is on the desktop with a folder containing samples it is controlling, and there's nothing else on the desktop except the hard drive.
From time to time when it starts the computer goes to the finder after
opening the patch; this seems to be completely random and happens about one start up in 5. Does anybody have an explanation? And a way of getting round this problem? It needs to be fail safe as I'm not around during the run of the installation.
Thanks
Stuart
I dont know how you have set this to work on your machine but I have set my gallery installs on mac os x 10.4 systems to autostart by doing the following:
setting the "open at login" option for PD from the dock
setting the start up path in "start up flags" box within
preferences>startup menu
I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?
Here are two simple ways I have used that might work instead ( I dont know what you are running with PD ( gem, etc...) but they could be modified to suit:
- use a 24 hour clock patch ( really just a resetting counter and is
attached) that turns the DSP ( or whatever is appropriate ) on/off or closes and opens the other patch at certain times instead of restarting entire computer
- use an arduino and a light sensor to turn off the DSP when the
lights are shut off at night
On 9/23/07, Stuart Jones s.jones@csm.arts.ac.uk wrote:
Hi All
I have a patch running an installation on a Mac laptop running 10.4.9. The laptop is scheduled to shut down at night and start up in the morning. The PD patch is on the desktop with a folder containing samples it is controlling, and there's nothing else on the desktop except the hard drive. From time to time when it starts the computer goes to the finder after opening the patch; this seems to be completely random and happens about one start up in 5. Does anybody have an explanation? And a way of getting round this problem? It needs to be fail safe as I'm not around during the run of the installation.
Thanks
Stuart
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Am 23.09.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Greg Pond:
I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?
what about saving some energy and our earth ;) or is that a no reason?
stuart, what exactly is the problem when the finder is in the
foreground? do you have a gem patch and you don't want the pd patch
to pop up?
mx
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Max Neupert wrote:
Am 23.09.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Greg Pond:
I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?
what about saving some energy and our earth ;) or is that a no reason?
As soon as you start heating your house, saving energy on incandescent lightbulbs and computers and monitors becomes rather futile: the energy that you save on those still has to be spent on plain heating. The big difference might be that e.g. you pay HydroQuébec instead of GazMétro, so you generate less CO2 and pay a bit more (until the price of methane goes up), but if your heating is all-electric there is no difference.
At this point in the year, though, it matters to me: air conditioner is on, it's back to 30°C in Montréal. If you use air conditioning, heating matters twice because not only it's generated but it also takes extra energy to take it out of the house.
Energy saving ratings never take this into account, afaik.
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On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:20 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Max Neupert wrote:
Am 23.09.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Greg Pond:
I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont
shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?what about saving some energy and our earth ;) or is that a no reason?
As soon as you start heating your house, saving energy on
incandescent lightbulbs and computers and monitors becomes rather
futile: the energy that you save on those still has to be spent on
plain heating. The big difference might be that e.g. you pay
HydroQuébec instead of GazMétro, so you generate less CO2 and pay a
bit more (until the price of methane goes up), but if your heating
is all-electric there is no difference.At this point in the year, though, it matters to me: air
conditioner is on, it's back to 30°C in Montréal. If you use air
conditioning, heating matters twice because not only it's generated
but it also takes extra energy to take it out of the house.Energy saving ratings never take this into account, afaik.
You overlooked one thing, which is that it is a lot more expensive to
heat with electricity than combustion. Compare:
- Burn stuff, make steam, turn generators, step up voltage, transmit
power many miles over big wires, step down voltage, transmit to
house, and run thru electrical element to generate heat
- pipe stuff to house, burn it, pump hot water around your house.
.hc
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:57:24PM +0200, Yves Degoyon wrote:
ola,
Energy saving ratings never take this into account, afaik.
what is more energy saving is no to have any heating systems ( live in the south ) and no conditionned air ( that always makes you sick )
sevy
isn't that a bit [OT]?
Not if you write a PD patch to control an Arduino that runs and monitors your solar/wind power system :-)
- -ken
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
- Burn stuff, make steam, turn generators, step up voltage, transmit power
many miles over big wires, step down voltage, transmit to house, and run thru electrical element to generate heat
What are you talking about? the electricity used in Montréal is not produced by burning anything. We have the huge dams in Manicouagan and Baie James.
In the USA, yes, they burn a lot, but it's ok for the USA, because the resulting acid rain travels to Montréal before falling anyway, so, it's not important.
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