Start up automatically

How can I have my computer start up automatically from sleep and/or shutdown multiple times a day? The schedule sheet in Energy in System Preferences only allows one wake and one shutdown/sleep. Is there a way to enable more than one, like every 6 hours or so?

there is no easy way to do this. see this link for a possible workaround
http://www.macworld.com/article/59910/2007/09/multiwake.html

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    acpid              0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    atd                0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    auditd             0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    blk-availability    0:off    1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    bluetooth          0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    cpuspeed           0:off    1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    crond              0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
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    firstboot          0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:off    5:on    6:off
    haldaemon          0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    htcacheclean       0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    httpd              0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    ip6tables          0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    iptables           0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    irqbalance         0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    jexec              0:off    1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    kdump              0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    lvm2-monitor       0:off    1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    mdmonitor          0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    messagebus         0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    netconsole         0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    netfs              0:off    1:off    2:off    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    network            0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    ntpd               0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    ntpdate            0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    portreserve        0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    postfix            0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    psacct             0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    quota_nld          0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    rdisc              0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    restorecond        0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    rngd               0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    rsyslog            0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
    saslauthd          0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    smartd             0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
    snmpd              0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off
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