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At 12:57 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 6/22/05, IvanK.
<chepati@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> ><br>
> > And it does!<br>
> ><br>
> > Hey, thanks! I was looking for a simple way to do this so I
don't have<br>
> > to get out of bed before I go to sleep. Now, if you just had a
way to<br>
> > turn the machine on with the same remote... ;-)<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> Actually, you can use the remote to turn on your machine. Here
are the steps:<br>
> 1) Aim carefully at the power-on button of the computer<br>
> 2) Throw the remote at the button from 1)<br>
> 3) Hope you hit it<br>
> <br>
> bonus: tie a string to the remote so you can retrieve it after
you've turned<br>
> on the computer.<br><br>
But what if you miss ...?<br><br>
You could connect an IR-controlled switch to the power button which<br>
would do the job and wouldn't convince you to throw increasingly
large<br>
objects at the machine if you miss the first time.</blockquote><br>
I much prefer <font size=2>Rube Goldberg machine</font>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg" eudora="autourl">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg</a></body>
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