The key to sleep… is to be wired
I usually leave my PCs on 24/7, so I can ssh in if I need to, and let my various cronjobs to their thing, and because I’m lazy, and to do my part in keeping the US reliant on foreign energy sources. Yesterday however I decided to give ’sleep’ mode a shot on the Mac mini. Works great. Except for one thing… if you’ve got a wireless keyboard and mouse, apparently the signal doesn’t get through to wake it back up! Well, I’m guessing it’s a artifact of the wireless nature of my K&M, or perhaps it’s another part of the vast Microsoft anti-Mac conspiracy (”if we can’t get them to use our OS, at least they’ll use our keyboards and oddly shaped pointing devices! Muahahaha!”)
On the plus side, it’s not that big a deal. Tapping the power button (but it’s all the way on the baaaack of the compuuuter) also wakes from sleep. Wish I could say it was as easy for me to wake up in the a.m…