[geeks] OSX Server

[velociraptor]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:20:27 +0100, Olaf Mersmann
<olafm at kimberly.tako.de> wrote:
>
> Afaik you can't run Powerbooks with their lid closed unless you screw
> over OS X. But he was basically circumventing that "protective measure"
> by keeping it just open. Kinda makes you worry when a few extra cents
> for hardware is traded in for more software madness to monitor the
> machines health.

With Powerbooks, if you have an external display hooked up they will
continue to run.  What usually happens with an iBook or P'book is that
they go to sleep when you close the lid.  On P'books, if you have an
external display hooked up, the internal display will shut off.  They
call this "clamshell mode".

Apparently in 'books, this is activated by a magnet/reed switch.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/ibook.html

There are also OS hacks to ignore the PMU setting as well, such as
"Insomnia": http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/meltmac/

Apple has a KB article for using your Pbook this way:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86286

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