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Modern rotational hard disks have a misfeature involving the regular automatic unloading of the heads, measurable by the SMART attribute "Load_Cycle_Count", that causes latency on wake-up, and while the manufacturers sell this as "green", it is believed to cause reduced hard disk life. The parkverbot daemon will periodically issue small read requests in order to keep the hardware from going to its head-unloaded idle state.

PUB! is a Programmable USB Button on which you can program with a sequence of keystrokes. When you press the button those keystrokes are "replayed" over a USB connection. The button is programmed using an innovative and slightly quirky interface that does not require any custom software to be installed on your computer. All you need is a text editor like Notepad or gedit.

Features a Graphical User Interface (UI) highly integrated with KDE, managing those function keys not handled by KDE (Screen lock, TouchPad toggle, Battery profiles, Zoom keys and Keyboard backlight). Also provides a System Settings module for easy access and configuration of Toshiba laptops related hardware like TouchPad, Accelerometer, Keyboard Backlight, Sleep Utilities and more.

This is an open-hardware Infrared Remote Controlled USB keyboard, without keys, implemented using a PIC micro-controller and MikroC. IRK! enables you to use your LEARNING remote control to control any system that you can plug a USB keyboard into (Windows, Linux, Mac). Great for controlling a home theatre system such as MythTV, XBMC or Media Center. No drivers are required. You can program *any* USB keyboard function (with or without Control, Alt, Shift and GUI modifiers) to a button on...

HDSleeper is a small, menu-bar application for Mac OS 10.6+ that allows you to quickly sleep and wake your hard-drives. It is primarily oriented towards users who have removed their DVD/Superdrive and replaced it with a hard-drive on MacBook laptops, which is often the case with SSD upgrades.

...You can use MMM to read out your Monitor Capabilities like physical Resolution, supported Resolutions and Refresh Rates, Vendor Informations, Firmware Version and current settings like Brightness, Contrast, Gamma and so on. You can use MMM also to send MCCS Commands to your Monitor to turning it into Standby, wake it up again and change its Brightness, Contrast or Gamma Settings. Note that this is done directly by the Monitor and NOT the Graphics Card. You can't believe that? Have a look to your Monitors On-Screen Display when changing Settings with MMM! Furthermore, MMM has methods to place a Window exacty to a Monitor relatively to global Desktop Coordinates and taking Screenshots from a Monitor Content.