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S3 Standby State Done Right

Posted by kdawson on from the you-will-sleep-now dept.

For Earth Day, Cameron Butterfield has written in with a pointer to his article on how to get your Windows PC into S3 sleep, and why you want to. It covers the question of how to take advantage of this extremely low-power mode even when your machine is an "always on" file server, remote desktop, or VNC server.

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  1. And Linux? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great for Windows users... but what are the options to set up a Linux system to reduce power usage and fan noise when idle?

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  2. network broadcast traffic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely enabling your PC to wake up whenever any network traffic is sensed is stupid in the example described in the article.

    Will it not wake up whenever any workgroup broadcasts are sent to it?