On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Brolin Empey<bro...@brolin.be> wrote: > 2009/7/27 Ben Wong <lists.openmoko....@wongs.net> >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brolin Empey<bro...@brolin.be> wrote: >> >> > I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I >> > frequently >> > forget to do so. > > That could be interpreted as meaning I frequently forget to go to bed too.
Heh. I actually *do* have an alarm that goes off every night to remind me to go to bed. I got the idea from an old Superman "Bizarro World" comic. > No, the phones I have do not wake me. > > A phone that literally rings (i.e., has a real bell instead of an electronic > tone) may wake me, though. :) I suggest this rotary ring, which I use as my default ring "tone": http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15826 >> >> I'd use a cron job that calls shutdown, but that first checks if your >> phone is off the hook (well, I guess we already know the Freerunner is >> "off the hook"). I'd probably also check if there had been any recent >> screen input. > > In this case you literally meant off the hook, but at first I thought you > meant “no longer responsible for”. :) Yeah, language is funny. For some reason the slang in my part of the US (I don't know about elsewhere) has evolved so that "off the hook" now means "fantastic!" Perhaps a confusion with "off the charts"? >> To save the battery in case you forgot to plug it in? > > Yes, this is what I was thinking of. I am afraid to leave battery-powered > devices plugged in (line-powered) all the time, though, because doing so > seems to kill laptop batteries. That's a good question, whether constant charging shortens the lifespan of a Li battery, which I'm sure someone more knowledgeable on this list will answer. From personal experience, I believe that to be true, but my feeling is that I'll just keep it charging and replace the batteries once in a while. They're not as expensive as laptop batteries. Also, I've heard that lithium batteries have a limited lifespan even when they're not being used. >> A cron job >> would work to shut it down, but you could add a couple lines in the >> script to skip it if the battery is already charging. > > Or if I am using the phone. ;) It should inject audio into the conversation. "Pardon me for interrupting, this is your Freerunner talking. I just wanted to let you know that it is now past your bedtime." ;-) --Ben _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community