Recent content by alan_surry

That's pretty much what I need. Notification that power is down and the laptop is running on battery. I could do without buying a UPS just for this, hence the question about finding UPS style software. Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

The laptop also runs a couple of webcams as well as two temperature sensors so I can check that all is OK when I'm away. We lost one tortoise a few years back when a relative who was "looking after" them left the door unlocked and he got out and froze to death.

I have a laptop which runs a program called TEMPer. This monitors the temperature in a heated enclosure for a large tortoise and sends me an email alert if the temperature drops below a certain figure. What I'm trying to find is (Preferably open source) some form of power monitoring software...

Thanks for the reply I stumbled across event sentry last night. It looks like it will do the trick but it's way to complex for what I need and I need to figure out how to use it on my main pc to monitor my laptop as the laptop is 32 bit and EV is only a 6bit app. Unless of course anyone has a...

I have a laptop that is being used to monitor the temperature and run webcams in a hut where a large tortoise spends the winter. I’m looking for software that will detect when the laptop is using battery and alert me by email as this will give me advanced notice of any loss of mains power and...

I work from home doing PC & laptop repairs and have several PC's in my workshop and in the house that I can wake up remotely, or at least I used to be able to. In short, I've tried several different wake on lan programs on several different PC's and none of them are working on any of my PC's. My...

Thanks for the answer. I'd tried this approach using a couple of different routers with DHCP off but with it on, I couldn't get an internet connection. I've realised that I've been trying to repurpose the wrong sort of router. I found an old Netgear DSL router and it's doing what i want just...

I work for myself doing PC & laptop repairs and often have customers computers in my workshop that are infected with viruses. What I'm trying to do is to create a guest network with a spare router so that i can keep customers computers on a different network from my own pc's. I use virgin and...

My Mobo supports both PC133SDRam and 2100DDRRam. I've got 256mb of 133 at the moment and want to add more. Question is will I get better audio (Cubase VST, software synths & software sampling) performance from 768mb of PC133 or should I ditch the slower memory and add 512mb of 2100DDR?