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Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep

Posted by timothy on from the would-make-me-feel-better-about-keeping-a-server-on dept.

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."

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  1. So in other words... by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So in other words you still have a computer running, just not your main computer.

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  2. Slashdot editor's demonstrate..... by jdb2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    .....their incompetency once again.

    Apparently Timothy doesn't understand how to use Google, or, dare I say, even the Slashdot "Old Stories" search

    Almost the exact same story was posted on Monday, April 27 .

    jdb2

  3. Microsoft using Linux? by markdavis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Researchers at Microsoft"..."have developed"..."running embedded Linux"

    Um, was that a misprint or did hell just freeze over? Hasn't MS referred to Linux as a "virus", a "cancer", "un-American", a "patent violator", and "communistic"?