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Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep
Al writes "Researchers at Microsoft and the University of California, San Diego have developed a network adapter that lets a computer enter sleep mode without disrupting the network connection. The adapter, dubbed Somniloquy (meaning to talk in one's sleep), consists of a gumstix running embedded Linux, 64MB of RAM and a 2G SD memory card, connected via USB. The adapter keeps the network connection going and the researchers have also developed a simplified IM client and bittorrent client that carry out more complicated tasks autonomously, only waking the computer if, for example, an actualy IM is received or a download is completed."
We put a computer on your computer so you can download while you download...
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only waking the computer if, for example, an actualy IM is received or a download is completed."
So now if my falling asleep leads to the computer falling asleep, it'll wake up to wake me up when it finished downloading.
It sounds like a dislexic "Yo Dawg..."
Will be researchers formerly at Microsoft "running with an embedded chair" after tomorrow I'm sure...
.. does this mean my botnet can continue to spam folks even if they turn off their PCs? If so, this is a great feature!
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are you ever in a position where you need your car to slooooowly move forward all night? Well, imagine a device that let's you do that while the motor "sleeps"! Just plug it into your lighter adapter, set the device out in front of the car, and go ahead and turn that engine off - by sunrise your car will be over yonder.
Magic? No... just a fully functional electric car that may well have more torque than your own. Or something. /analogy
So in other words you still have a computer running, just not your main computer.
How's it gonna help those of us that download more than 2 gigabytes of porn^Wlinux distros at a time?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Well you are on about a par with us.for correcting someone's grammar. P.S You are missing a double quotation mark.
Posting dupes of 4 month old stories is the Slashdot way!
If only this hadn't been posted in April their jobs could have been saved!
Now if only they could come up with a NIC card that could do that when the editors are asleep.
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You think you're safer by having it off 16 hours a day?
Dude, if I was having it off for 16 hours a day, I wouldn't give a flying **** about some shitty PC security!
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Don't worry, they're working on a solution which allows the network computer to go to sleep as well without disrupting the network connection. Perhaps they could add a second network computer that allows the first to power down...
I don't think that's the kind of buffer Shakrai is interested in flushing
'sup dawg, I heard you like computers, so I put a computer in your computer so you can download while you sleep.