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Re: falling asleep during downloads

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On 4/6/15, 6:41 PM, dorayme wrote:
> In article <mfutts$nib$1@dont-email.me>, J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have Yosemite with "Wake for network access" checked. My internet
>> connection speed is 1 GB per hour. Apple downloads may be several GB. If
>> I forget to set my Mini never to sleep, it will interrupt the download
>> by sleeping. There were older versions of OS X that would stay awake.
>>
>> Besides telling my Mac never to sleep, is there a way to keep it from
>> going to sleep during a download?
>
> Yes. Get or make a program to do something, loopingly if necessary,
> that should help fix Yosemite, if it forgets its settings.
>
> You see, it's not like these Mac OSs have no animal feelings; in spite
> of being told to not sleep, they can get *bored* and sleep anyway.
> What could be more boring than very very slow downloading?
>
> You have it do something interesting to itself. What would interest a
> computer?
>
> Well, they love, absolutely love, I know from my own experience, going
> through amateur Basic programs with lots of loops, trying to get
> better and better solutions to problems for which it would take an
> eternity to solve *perfectly*.
>
> You see, if it keeps getting better and better solutions, this keeps
> its hopes alive.  When we despair too much, we sleep. Or at least I
> do. However, with hope comes wakefulness.
>
I think you're on to something.  I'll buy a Roomba, a bluetooth mouse, 
and some duct tape. When I wake up in the morning, the clean floor will 
remind me to see how my download is coming.  I'd better buy one of those 
"I've fallen and can't get up" devices in case I trip over the Roomba.

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falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-06 17:31 -0400
  Re: falling asleep during downloads Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 18:01 -0400
  Re: falling asleep during downloads dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-04-07 08:41 +1000
    Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-06 18:55 -0400
  Re: falling asleep during downloads dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 11:30 +1200
    Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-06 20:15 -0400
      Re: falling asleep during downloads dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 12:43 +1200
        Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-06 23:49 -0400
          Re: falling asleep during downloads dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-07 18:08 +1200
            Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-07 14:11 -0400
              Re: falling asleep during downloads dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-09 02:18 +1200
                Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 16:50 -0400
                Re: falling asleep during downloads Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-08 19:00 -0700
                Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-09 11:09 -0400
                Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 17:07 -0400
                Re: falling asleep during downloads dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-09 11:42 +1200
                Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 21:10 -0400
                Re: falling asleep during downloads Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-09 12:40 +0000
  Re: falling asleep during downloads Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2015-04-06 21:35 -0400
    Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-07 00:36 -0400
  Re: falling asleep during downloads Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-07 02:46 +0000
    Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-07 00:43 -0400
      Re: falling asleep during downloads Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-07 10:52 -0400
      Re: falling asleep during downloads Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 09:57 +0000
        Re: falling asleep during downloads J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 16:46 -0400
          Re: falling asleep during downloads Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-09 12:36 +0000

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