woah! i had no idea beos lived on in an oss project!
How to programmatically find out if computer is on
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Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#32Javascript equivalent function is kind of wonky so they had to make is_the_computer_really_on() to do what you want here.
there's a convenient npm package to handle that for you
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#33is_computer_on_fire() seems more usable...
weird how it's returning a constant https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/8f16317a5b6db5c672f33181... Interesting it seems to come from BeOS: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commit/bcf475ec65f1060c0a8abf... where the same function had a hn thread about it already a couple years ago :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780606
Not 451. I'm disappointed at the missed opportunity.
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#34Where does the code run when the computer is off? Edit: I see the downvotes, yet i still don't know if it's a joke. I was genuinely asking the question.
In the cloud
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#35Asynchronous JavaScript browser DOM callback API:
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#36 // power cycle computer
bool was_on = set_computer_on(true); // returns prior value
if (was_on) {
set_computer_on(false);
set_computer_on(true);
} else {
// was previously off, is now on: nothing to do!
}Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#37is_computer_on_fire() seems more usable...
weird how it's returning a constant https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/8f16317a5b6db5c672f33181... Interesting it seems to come from BeOS: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commit/bcf475ec65f1060c0a8abf... where the same function had a hn thread about it already a couple years ago :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780606
I can find various results where that number is negative (Faltings height of LMFDB elliptic curve 1688.c1; north east longitude of el Baix Segura) but not where the number is positive. It's part of a DOI string though, but that's not really a number.
Probably I'm being nerd sniped. https://xkcd.com/356/
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#38In Soviet Russia the computer checks you to see if you are on.
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, it seems like you need to make sure the computer is on before calling this function, or else you run the risk of getting back undefined data. Seems like we also need a function that can be used to tell if the computer is on...
Nah. Just bump that responsibility to the caller, and power supply manufacturer. Have the caller call power_on_computer() first always. This will ensure you always get defined state! ...What do you mean not every power supply manufacturer implements the power_on_computer() function as a NOOP if the computer is already on?!
Some implement it that way, some it returns and error message or throws an NMI; then ya got the cheap clones that use it to frob a toggle without regard to the state it was in (which there's no way to read)... Then ya got the weird ones (HP) where it only works right if you call it twice with a 40ms delay between while streaming a sample from "Swan Lake" over their NDA'd 1wire thingy.
Re: How to programmatically find out if computer is on
#40Where does the code run when the computer is off? Edit: I see the downvotes, yet i still don't know if it's a joke. I was genuinely asking the question.
Embedded controller, management engine, low-power core.