using a mac to powerdown a PC

Its a server, for God's sake. You ought to protect it with a UPS even if your city had excellent power. In a city with bad power, it's a no-brainer. Certain do not leave your server at the mercy of one of the clients. Get the UPS!

 

Get a cheap UPS from geeks.com, thats what I did.

 

A bit off the topic. But I was really wondering bout this yesterday. Why not put a really small battery inside the mini(may be BTO). I was thinking of getting a mini for my elder bro. He doesnt even know that sucha thing really exist. He`s interested in Macs from the day I told him that Macs are virus proof. He doesnt need a portable. Neither an iMac will do coz of space constraints on his office table.

Now I m in INDIA and power cuts are very common. So I`ll definitely need a UPS for the mini. But the mini wont really be all that portable I guess coz I`ll have to move the big bulky UPS with it if I want to use it somewhere else(he already has an extra CRT monitor in his room BTW.)

Now it`ll be really great if the mini could work even for just 10-15 minutes in case of a power cut. That`d be a good enough time to either turn on the power generator or save the work and shut down the mini. Or maybe put the mini to sleep for sometime.

Atleast there should be a BTO option for this battery.


BTW. I second MisterMe and joecool85. Get n extra UPS. They are so cheap nowadays.

 

I don't know if Windows has anything like this, but you could try to write an Applescript that would telnet into the Windows machine and runs a shutdown command. I don't know if this command exists in windows, I'm just familiar with a *NIX environment with the `shutdown` command.

 

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If you want to shut it down quickly you could always do

net shutdown -f \\\\XPSERVER -WWORKGROUP -UUSERNAME

or if you want to time it

net shutdown -t xx \\\\XPSERVER -WWORKGROUP -UUSERNAME
where xx is the time in seconds.