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Although WOZ could conceivably be called the inventor of the personal computer The statements about 'interfacing with a computer using a keyboard and screen' and 'toggle switches for input and look at indicator lights', leaves a false impression. Prior to the Apple people could use terminals, so they were in …

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You can or at least used to be able to shutdown in python using python dbus Hal. The following works in Slackware 13 Mandriva and Fedora. [code=python] import dbus bus = dbus.SystemBus() shut = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal', '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer') shutr = dbus.Interface(shut , 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement') shutr.Shutdown() [/code] But dbus is a can of worms …

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