User awake?

Ruby
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I am a new RUBY programmer. so far I managed to write a ‘listener’ for
my quote stream, maintain a quote database and fire off email messengers
as alerts when certain condition occur. This all happened in the last 2
weeks!

I would like to add a possibility to send these alerts to my cellphone.
I manage to send them straight forward as an email. Which is good enough
for me (for now).

But I would like my program select the destination of the email
automatically based on the fact if I am behind my computer or not.

If behind_computer
– send email to desktop
else
– send email to cellphone
end

One of the thoughts I have is to use the mouse movement to determine if
I am around. Like if the mouse has not been moved for 5 minutes - Then I
am not around.

q’s
= Does anyone has a better suggestion
= Does anyone know how I can figure out if the mouse has been moved
within the last 5 min

As always thank you!!
Ernst

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On Nov 12, 2007 7:07 PM, Ernst T. [email protected] wrote:

automatically based on the fact if I am behind my computer or not.

q’s
= Does anyone has a better suggestion

depends on the system you are on.
on linux/unix, you can do w.grep(/your_username/) to see if you’re
logged in.
on windows, it would require Win32API or WMI (using COM/Win32OLE)

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Jano S. wrote:

On Nov 12, 2007 7:07 PM, Ernst T. [email protected] wrote:

automatically based on the fact if I am behind my computer or not.

q’s
= Does anyone has a better suggestion

depends on the system you are on.
on linux/unix, you can do w.grep(/your_username/) to see if you’re
logged in.
on windows, it would require Win32API or WMI (using COM/Win32OLE)

Thanks for you help – I will look into that direction.

By the way I am using Windows XP