isn't there a project online for what i asked ,whether properiatory or FOSS ,i think this is where we can help our country and ourselves ,in saving bucks and relentless energy.
ISP's provide net for free(orlow cost ) at night and most indians are found of downloading at night ,and thus running the computers on all night ,with just a small application running up ,,why can't we create some different softwares like that On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, amit kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I normally always have my computer turned on for downloading at night and > i > > considerable amount of electricity is thus wasted for just a small task > > The best I can think of is unplug all non-essential hardware (I am > assuming, you can't do frequency scaling, google that) -- > non-essential hardware even includes video adapter (but you need to > disable stop on certain errors in BIOS). Unplug mouse, keyboard, > CD/DVD drives, switch off speakers etc. :p > > I think that's the best you can do, unless you get a low power PC for > just downloading purposes. > > > Sharad > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
