On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:04:20 pm Brandon B. wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to programmatically wake the computer up from
> sleep state, preferably at a certain time, rather than after certain
> amount of time, but ill make due with whatever solution there might be.

I suspect most BIOSes have this feature, but I have no idea how to access it 
programmatically. I did find this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

I have no idea how well it works, though, and it's probably going to be 
system-specific.