I just noticed the default power setting on my Vista dev box is "Balanced" -- meaning it goes to sleep after awhile. I wonder if this is why cannot connect to remote desktop from home.

Quoted: The default "off" state is now the new Sleep power state. Just press the power button on the Start menu or on your PC, and your PC will automatically save your current session to memory, and then quickly enter into a very low power state. It will also save your session to the hard drive, so you can access it even if the memory loses power. Then, when you want to resume your computer use, just press the power button on your PC. Your PC will turn on in seconds, and be just how you left it last time.

Quoted: What is the secret to getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep? Head for the kitchen and enjoy one or two of these 10 foods. They relax tense muscles, quiet buzzing minds, and/or get calming, sleep-inducing hormones - serotonin and melatonin - flowing.

Quoted: What really matters, he says, is the “core” sleep, the first few hours that nourish the higher sections of the brain. Anything beyond that—including deep ...

I vouch for most of what he says, including drinking coffee, eating complex carbs, showering, walking, and not lying down.

Quoted: I happen to have a lot of experience in the area of sleep-deprivation, and I’d like to share my techniques. We must first, however, define ...

Interesting. Will give this a try.

Quoted: The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5am), but I go to bed at different times every night.

*If* this is true, this is pretty incredible.

Quoted: As songbirds awaken the early risers at dawn on the farm, one resident is already up; in fact, he never slept – not once in the past 33 years.