11-22-2007
You have to
(a) restrict the BIOS options for what the machine can boot from, eg only from first harddisk and password protect the BIOS
(b) put the machine in a locked room or cupboard
unless you encrypt the drive you can always remove the drive from that machine and put it in another machine to do the same thing.
Of course once you do that you will be posting a message saying how do you reset the BIOS password or asking where you put the key for your cupboard.
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APM(1) APM(1)
NAME
apm - interface with the APM subsystem
SYNOPSIS
apm [ -VvmMsSdin ]
DESCRIPTION
This command requires the Advanced Power Management subsystem. If run without arguments it reads /proc/apm and presents the output in a
human-readable format.
Given a -S or -s option it requests that the machine be put into the APM standby or the APM suspend state, respectively. For a brief
description of these states, see apmd(8).
OPTIONS
-V, --version
Print the version of the program and exit.
-v, --verbose
Also print version information for the APM subsystem. The APM subsystem consists of power-management hardware, firmware usually
referred to as the APM BIOS and a driver in the operating system kernel.
-m, --minutes
Print the time remaining as a number of minutes. The default is to print the time remaining in "hours:minutes" format.
-M, --monitor
Continuously monitor and update the status information. Assumes that the standard output is a terminal.
-S, --standby
Request that the machine be put into the APM standby state.
-s, --suspend
Request that the machine be put into the APM suspend state.
-d, --debug
Print APM status information in a format more useful for debugging. Implies -v.
FILES
/proc/apm
AUTHOR
This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. The current maintainer is Avery Pennarun (apenwarr@worldvisions.ca).
SEE ALSO
xapm(1), apmd(8).
January 2004 APM(1)