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#463736 - 11/14/05 04:29 PM Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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i noticed that during the fedora core 4 install, the sleep led on the front of my ibook g4 is used as an HD activity LED. anyone know if theres anything like that for OS X? i just thought it was pretty cool...not that i need a flashy light or anything :silly:

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#463737 - 11/14/05 08:41 PM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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I'm glad you like that, but it would annoy the hell outta me. It might be a nifty utility to have, though, if only because I love to wow others with the power of my seemingly inferior 1.33 GHz ("So slow!" they say...) 12" PowerBook.
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#463738 - 11/14/05 09:16 PM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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yeah...it was a just for fun type of thing...thought i'd ask. 1.33ghz is really slow...painfully slow... :lol:

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#463739 - 11/14/05 09:23 PM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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Hardly... :P
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#463740 - 11/14/05 09:40 PM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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that is a pretty cool feature. I am sure that someone could write an app to do that. However, I havent seen it done :unsure:
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#463741 - 11/15/05 02:43 AM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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1.33 is nothing compared to the slothful agony of my 1 ghz 15in Pbook
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#463742 - 11/15/05 02:50 AM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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I still use my my 333MHz G3 PowerBook alot more than my MDD. Now thats pretty slow.....

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#463743 - 11/15/05 11:08 AM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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My 1.25GHz 15 Powerbook is Amazingly fast compared to my Old HP Pavillion Celeron Processer at 600Mhz......

I can run about 20 apps on my mac and only 1 on my HP.

Back to the main subject, I posted in another section of the forum about the Backlight of the keyboard being used someother way... ie breathing like the sleep light.... or something silly like that....

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#463744 - 11/15/05 11:37 AM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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silly flashy blinky lights are all the rage i hear...

this 1.33 ibook is faster than my athlon 2200+ (1.6ghz) pc i have at home...

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#463745 - 11/15/05 07:43 PM Re:Sleep LED alternate uses? [Re: ArielVideoEX]
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I was thiking about this a few weeks back. The only thing I thought of was hardwiring it to the HD itself. Never thought it can be contoled by software.

My iBook is 600MHz lol. Nothing can beat my AMD Athlon 64 system. (Home system that is. not server quality.)

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