Well I have a computer cluster in my Zamboni room. It is a pain booting up these semi-hidden machines. After getting a few more computers, as the result of tedious negotiations, it became high time to find a solution to this problem. Essentially, as long as said computer is plugged into a live ethernet hookup, it is possible to boot the computer when BIOS settings allow Wake-On-LAN. [more info on Wikipedia]

I continued poking around my google search results and found a website that runs a PHP implementation of the wake on lan protocol, called remotewakeup.com. If you setup your router properly, I guess you can wake a machine from any remote location. I also found some PHP source code that is probably what remotewakeup.com is running. Check it out at phrackattack.net. There are plenty of implementations available based upon the WOL rfc. A java implementation I found –> http://www.moldaner.de/wakeonlan/wakeonlan.html.

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[Added April 5th] I was working with Debian a lot and I found some information on implementing a remote wakeup for Debian/Ubuntu systems.