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Adonlude ANZAC ACADEMY 4	Posted - 2012.01.10 23:45:00 - [1] - Quote I only enjoy mining if I am doing it on a laptop sitting on the arm of my couch while I lay back and watch a movie. Unfortunately, I occassionally fall asleep. In the past I have been lucky but last night this finally cost me my Hulk at the hands of war targets. I fully intend to continue flying impared by fatigue and/or alcohol but I would like to find some way to logoff or shut the laptop down if there is a period of inactivity. Windows 7's built in laptop idle functions dont seem to feel that the computer is idle if EVE is open an running. Any gurus want to give me some ideas? Thanks, Adonlude
Famble Three's a Crowd 256	Posted - 2012.01.10 23:47:00 - [2] - Quote Can't think of anything at the moment but I like your attitude so hopefully someone can give you a tip before I get a chance to think on it later tonight. +1 If anyone ever looks at you and says, "Hold my beer, watch this,"-á you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Mara Rinn Cosmic Industrial Complex Cosmic Consortium 899	Posted - 2012.01.11 00:23:00 - [3] - Quote I would look at using a tool such as Timed Shutdown to automatically shut down your computer after e.g.: 15 minutes. Of course there is also the question of WTF are you doing in an exhumer during a wardec, but that is an issue best resolved between yourself, your corp, and your wartargets.
DarkAegix Acetech Systems 742	Posted - 2012.01.11 00:23:00 - [4] - Quote 1. Resize your local, so all pilots are visible 2. Rebalance your monitor's colours, so red becomes much more prevalent 3. Place a tub of water about one hand-length deep at your feet 4. Buy a kitten Once you fall asleep, the kitten will begin to roam around the room, looking for things to play with/destroy. If a war target jumps into system, the kitten will eventually see a large red dot on your notebook's screen. This dot will bounce up and down as people enter and leave the system. The kitten will then attack the red dot on your display, knocking the notebook into the tub of water. The electronics will short-circuit, your notebook will break, and you will be logged off.
Hainnz Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 47	Posted - 2012.01.11 00:24:00 - [5] - Quote A hardware solution exists at the very least, assuming you haven't already thought of it. Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-31200-TimerMax-Indoor-Digital/dp/B0020ML744/ref=pd_sim_k_5 Although I'm pretty sure you can get Win7 to turn off the way you want. I'd check the microsoft forums or usenet groups.
boseo Azure Horizon 37	Posted - 2012.01.11 01:39:00 - [6] - Quote DarkAegix wrote: 1. Resize your local, so all pilots are visible 2. Rebalance your monitor's colours, so red becomes much more prevalent 3. Place a tub of water about one hand-length deep at your feet 4. Buy a kitten Once you fall asleep, the kitten will begin to roam around the room, looking for things to play with/destroy. If a war target jumps into system, the kitten will eventually see a large red dot on your notebook's screen. This dot will bounce up and down as people enter and leave the system. The kitten will then attack the red dot on your display, knocking the notebook into the tub of water. The electronics will short-circuit, your notebook will break, and you will be logged off. This one made me lol. I like how stupid but well thought out it is. Sorry but file GÇ£forumsig.GIFGÇ¥ is currently unavailable please come back laterGÇªGÇª like in a year or so.
Teleni Pavle Republic University Minmatar Republic 20	Posted - 2012.01.11 01:48:00 - [7] - Quote Have screensaver shut the laptop down.
Lady Spank GET OUT NASTY FACE 912	Posted - 2012.01.11 01:54:00 - [8] - Quote How about booking into an AA group. (a¦á_a¦â) ~ http://getoutnastyface.blogspot.com/ ~ (a¦á_a¦â) -áGÖÑ New Years Resolution ~ Cease thy Smacktalk GÖÑ
Famble Three's a Crowd 256	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:03:00 - [9] - Quote Lady Spank wrote: How about booking into an AA group. You're not allowed while sporting that avatar to give lifestyle advice. We clear? If anyone ever looks at you and says, "Hold my beer, watch this,"-á you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Famble Three's a Crowd 256	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:09:00 - [10] - Quote There's programs that can initiate a shutdown on your PC. The built-in shutdown.exe on XP Pro comes to mind. That can be called from the command line with arguments to tailor the nature of the shutdown (show a countdown, give a message etc.). If you know some .NET programming you could write your own little application that simply runs a timer and resets that time on every keystroke or mouse movement. If the timer ever runs to completion you could simply have it run shutdown.exe. Actually, .NET (C# in particular) probably has a method to initiate a shutdown all by itself. Barring .NET skillz you could simply write a simple batch file that calls your shutdown tool, attach that to a recurring scheduled event on your OS. It will pop a message every x minutes (whatever you've scheduled it for) and you could manually cancel the shutdown from there. Some ideas there I suppose. EDIT: To see if your PC has shutdown.exe open up a command prompt and type: Start --> Run --> cmd --> Enter --> shutdown.exe /? If anyone ever looks at you and says, "Hold my beer, watch this,"-á you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Morganta Peripheral Madness The Midget Mafia 782	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:13:00 - [11] - Quote Famble wrote: There's programs that can initiate a shutdown on your PC. The built-in shutdown.exe on XP Pro comes to mind. That can be called from the command line with arguments to tailor the nature of the shutdown (show a countdown, give a message etc.). If you know some .NET programming you could write your own little application that simply runs a timer and resets that time on every keystroke or mouse movement. If the timer ever runs to completion you could simply have it run shutdown.exe. Actually, .NET (C# in particular) probably has a method to initiate a shutdown all by itself. Barring .NET skillz you could simply write a simple batch file that calls your shutdown tool, attach that to a recurring scheduled event on your OS. It will pop a message every x minutes (whatever you've scheduled it for) and you could manually cancel the shutdown from there. Some ideas there I suppose. dude, he falls asleep while mining during a wardec.... The American public's reaction to the change was poor and the new cola was a major marketing failure. The subsequent reintroduction of Coke's original formula, re-branded as "Coca-Cola Classic", resulted in a significant gain in sales, leading to speculation that the introduction of the New Coke formula was just a marketing ploy
Myxx Atropos Group Blood Right 475	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:14:00 - [12] - Quote Adonlude wrote: I only enjoy mining if I am doing it on a laptop sitting on the arm of my couch while I lay back and watch a movie. Unfortunately, I occassionally fall asleep. In the past I have been lucky but last night this finally cost me my Hulk at the hands of war targets. I fully intend to continue flying impared by fatigue and/or alcohol but I would like to find some way to logoff or shut the laptop down if there is a period of inactivity. Windows 7's built in laptop idle functions dont seem to feel that the computer is idle if EVE is open an running. Any gurus want to give me some ideas? Thanks, Adonlude I'm like, 99 percent positive this is wardec bait. If not, you really did deserve to lose your ship for being undocked in a mining barge while under war conditions.
Famble Three's a Crowd 256	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:17:00 - [13] - Quote Morganta wrote: Famble wrote: There's programs that can initiate a shutdown on your PC. The built-in shutdown.exe on XP Pro comes to mind. That can be called from the command line with arguments to tailor the nature of the shutdown (show a countdown, give a message etc.). If you know some .NET programming you could write your own little application that simply runs a timer and resets that time on every keystroke or mouse movement. If the timer ever runs to completion you could simply have it run shutdown.exe. Actually, .NET (C# in particular) probably has a method to initiate a shutdown all by itself. Barring .NET skillz you could simply write a simple batch file that calls your shutdown tool, attach that to a recurring scheduled event on your OS. It will pop a message every x minutes (whatever you've scheduled it for) and you could manually cancel the shutdown from there. Some ideas there I suppose. dude, he falls asleep while mining during a wardec.... Yea, you got me laughing out loud there for a second. Touche' If anyone ever looks at you and says, "Hold my beer, watch this,"-á you're probably going to want to pay attention.
Reaver Glitterstim Dromedaworks inc 19	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:18:00 - [14] - Quote You could try using a covetor instead, or even go for other lower-risk forms of income. Like AFKing at an asteroid belt in a vexor. Sorry I don't know, what everyone else said I guess.
Reaver Glitterstim Dromedaworks inc 19	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:19:00 - [15] - Quote Myxx wrote: Adonlude wrote: I only enjoy mining if I am doing it on a laptop sitting on the arm of my couch while I lay back and watch a movie. Unfortunately, I occassionally fall asleep. In the past I have been lucky but last night this finally cost me my Hulk at the hands of war targets. I fully intend to continue flying impared by fatigue and/or alcohol but I would like to find some way to logoff or shut the laptop down if there is a period of inactivity. Windows 7's built in laptop idle functions dont seem to feel that the computer is idle if EVE is open an running. Any gurus want to give me some ideas? Thanks, Adonlude I'm like, 99 percent positive this is wardec bait. If not, you really did deserve to lose your ship for being undocked in a mining barge while under war conditions. On the other hand, there is a 1% chance he wasn't mining in Jita?
RubyPorto Profoundly Disturbed RED.Legion 1173	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:38:00 - [16] - Quote Morganta wrote: Famble wrote: There's programs that can initiate a shutdown on your PC. The built-in shutdown.exe on XP Pro comes to mind. That can be called from the command line with arguments to tailor the nature of the shutdown (show a countdown, give a message etc.). If you know some .NET programming you could write your own little application that simply runs a timer and resets that time on every keystroke or mouse movement. If the timer ever runs to completion you could simply have it run shutdown.exe. Actually, .NET (C# in particular) probably has a method to initiate a shutdown all by itself. Barring .NET skillz you could simply write a simple batch file that calls your shutdown tool, attach that to a recurring scheduled event on your OS. It will pop a message every x minutes (whatever you've scheduled it for) and you could manually cancel the shutdown from there. Some ideas there I suppose. dude, he falls asleep while mining during a wardec.... That's roughly the message I got from the OP. It's like that bearsuit guy's train of thought. Bear Attacks Hurt > Instead of altering my habits to avoid Bear Attacks, Let's make them not hurt.
Alexila Quant Republican Industries 6	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:42:00 - [17] - Quote Don't know if this is strictly legal in terms of TOS (I'll leave that hunk of reading for you to decide) but you could always make an autohotkey script that kills the EVE process after 6 minutes of lack of user input. (6 being a good number as it's 2 cycles of your strippers you're bound to do SOMETHING within that time frame) Like I said, not sure if it's 100% legal. Any GM input on that? Now i'm curious.
Gilbaron Free-Space-Ranger Ev0ke 65	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:45:00 - [18] - Quote DarkAegix wrote: 1. Resize your local, so all pilots are visible 2. Rebalance your monitor's colours, so red becomes much more prevalent 3. Place a tub of water about one hand-length deep at your feet 4. Buy a kitten Once you fall asleep, the kitten will begin to roam around the room, looking for things to play with/destroy. If a war target jumps into system, the kitten will eventually see a large red dot on your notebook's screen. This dot will bounce up and down as people enter and leave the system. The kitten will then attack the red dot on your display, knocking the notebook into the tub of water. The electronics will short-circuit, your notebook will break, and you will be logged off. Thanks for that early smile on my face :)
Taedrin Kushan Industrial 310	Posted - 2012.01.11 02:51:00 - [19] - Quote Reaver Glitterstim wrote: On the other hand, there is a 1% chance he wasn't mining in Jita? For what it's worth, you can't mine in Jita anymore as they removed all fo the belts long ago to combat lag. To the OP: someone could write a keylogger type program which would wait for a period of inactivity from the keyboard/mouse before automatically initiating a shutdown. Alternatively, you could use a pre-existing keyloger which regularly outputs to a log file and just check the log for inactivity before shutting down. The latter method should be easy with a scripting language.
Mr Kidd Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 347	Posted - 2012.01.11 03:12:00 - [20] - Quote Try the shutdown command. I would post the exact usage since I use it often however, the idiot(s) that coded this forum think I'm trying to post HTML. We want breast augmentations and sluttier clothing in the NeX!
Dbars Grinding Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation 330	Posted - 2012.01.11 03:12:00 - [21] - Quote toasting in a mining thread.
XY Zed The Place where all good Souls go to die 20	Posted - 2012.01.11 03:26:00 - [22] - Quote Open command prompt and then navigate to system32. for shutdown shutown.exe -s -t xx xx being time in seconds until shutdown for rebooting shutdown.exe -r -t xx
Cur Nova Australis Dark Knights of New Eden 41	Posted - 2012.01.11 04:54:00 - [23] - Quote Spaceships..... cars.... they're all the same right? http://rt.com/news/sci-tech/russia-gadget-sleeping-drivers/ http://www.nisfornarcolepsy.com/2010/01/doze-alert-device-that-combats-drowsy.html Since i know you'll ask... i found a pisstake of this device on Failblog.org and it came to mind when reading the OP's post :)
Vyl Vit Cambio Enterprises 202	Posted - 2012.01.11 05:22:00 - [24] - Quote Here's a tried and true idea. Get a wife. She'll see you sleeping at the keyboard and yank the plug out of the wall for you. To her it doesn't matter much.-á It's chasms have been leapt, and she leans upon the skepticism of her chosen fate.
Adonlude ANZAC ACADEMY 5	Posted - 2012.01.11 19:58:00 - [25] - Quote Thanks for the helpful and amusing replies! As for mining during a wardec, I do it all the time. I have to since we almost always have a few wardecs going. They are mostly from lowsec corps fighting our lowsec PVPers that dont often venture into highsec where I mine. I glance at local every now and again as well. Ill probably switch back to a coveter for a bit though.
Valei Khurelem 138	Posted - 2012.01.11 20:03:00 - [26] - Quote I can't play this game for that long, so sorry, I can't really see your point of view.
Taedrin Kushan Industrial 312	Posted - 2012.01.11 20:09:00 - [27] - Quote Adonlude wrote: Thanks for the helpful and amusing replies! As for mining during a wardec, I do it all the time. I have to since we almost always have a few wardecs going. They are mostly from lowsec corps fighting our lowsec PVPers that dont often venture into highsec where I mine. I glance at local every now and again as well. Ill probably switch back to a coveter for a bit though. People fail to realize that the appropriate response to a wardec is NOT to shut down everything, NOT to stop making ISK. If you do this, then the people attacking you don't even have to lift a finger to destroy your corporation. They can simply declare war and pay 10 million ISK per week to sit back while your corporation slowly dies because nobody can play the game. Instead, you should continue mining, continue mission running, continue generating money/resources while you watch local and keep an eye out for war targets. If a war target jumps in, you dock/safe up.
Morganta Peripheral Madness The Midget Mafia 792	Posted - 2012.01.11 20:12:00 - [28] - Quote Taedrin wrote: Adonlude wrote: Thanks for the helpful and amusing replies! As for mining during a wardec, I do it all the time. I have to since we almost always have a few wardecs going. They are mostly from lowsec corps fighting our lowsec PVPers that dont often venture into highsec where I mine. I glance at local every now and again as well. Ill probably switch back to a coveter for a bit though. People fail to realize that the appropriate response to a wardec is NOT to shut down everything, NOT to stop making ISK. If you do this, then the people attacking you don't even have to lift a finger to destroy your corporation. They can simply declare war and pay 10 million ISK per week to sit back while your corporation slowly dies because nobody can play the game. Instead, you should continue mining, continue mission running, continue generating money/resources while you watch local and keep an eye out for war targets. If a war target jumps in, you dock/safe up. nobody has an issue with mining during a wardec that I'm aware of (corp rules notwithstanding) I'm mostly laughing about doing it while sleepy or afk The American public's reaction to the change was poor and the new cola was a major marketing failure. The subsequent reintroduction of Coke's original formula, re-branded as "Coca-Cola Classic", resulted in a significant gain in sales, leading to speculation that the introduction of the New Coke formula was just a marketing ploy
My Neutral Toon Knights Who Til Recently Said Ni 4	Posted - 2012.01.11 20:30:00 - [29] - Quote You could try not AFK mining while war dec'd... that might solve part of the issue. ...Can't. Tell. If ...Troll? Or Serious....
Roscada We love Egg 15	Posted - 2012.01.11 20:37:00 - [30] - Quote The current game mechanic to send you home for free is working as intended.

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