Another reason to not leave your computer on overnight

Lots of people leave their PCs on overnight.  Often, this is for no good reason whatsoever, it’s just out of laziness.  But sometimes it’s a conscious decision: if you want your computer to continue receiving updates, or transmit/receive information of any kind during the wee hours of the night, you need to leave it on.  But even the lowest power settings generally burn more power than you need to do that minimal amount of computing.

Now, those people can use a system called Somniloquy.  Although this device may be hard to spell, it does offer a cool service.  Most computers have four levels of power consumption – regular use, standby, sleep/hibernate mode and completely shut down.  A lot of people, including myself, prefer to hibernate their PCs rather than shut them off, because it allows them to start up again more quickly.  With Somniloquy, you can hibernate your PC and still have it communicate with other PCs.  Check out more details on Phys.org.

As for those who are just leaving their computers on out of sheer laziness - they do not deserve a cool new Somniloquy.  They should just turn off their computers.

Via Treehugger
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