<div>Just so that everyone knows....i got the forementioned idea from this</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/Storage/hdd_station/blacx/blacx.asp">http://thermaltakeusa.com/product/Storage/hdd_station/blacx/blacx.asp</a></div> <div> </div> <div><br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert McWilliam</b> <<a href="mailto:rmcw@allmail.net">rmcw@allmail.net</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:36:24PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:<br>> but this is what i said....maybe ubuntu can come with something does exactly<br> > that...an option when selected switches off everything else..and 1% off<br>> power goes towards maintaing those torrents!!!<br><br>You can't do that on a normal desktop. You need hardware capable of<br>scaling back the power usage, or hardware designed for low power. The<br> power scaling is mostly just used in mobile devices as it uses up chip<br>area that most people prefer to dedicate to running stuff a bit faster<br>when they're plugged into the mains.<br><br>Where the hardware supports it Ubuntu usually does take advantage of<br> low power facilities already, but in current computers there isn't a<br>great deal of hardware support for cutting back power usage (laptops<br>are a lot better than desktops but they still burn a lot of power even<br> in the lowest of their running states[1]).<br><br>What you're after isn't really something that Ubuntu can provide: it<br>needs different hardware, and Ubuntu is a software distribution. The<br>software is there now for you to get your hands on a low power<br> machine and use that to download torrents, Alan has explained one<br>way of doing it (which is remarkably similar to my own approach, right<br>down to using an old Dell Optiplex). If you want to substitute a GUI<br>torrent client for the CLI one that is possible but running a GUI<br> pushes up the minimum spec for the machine.<br><br>      Robert<br><br>________________________________________________________<br>Robert McWilliam     <a href="mailto:rmcw@allmail.net">rmcw@allmail.net</a>    <a href="http://www.ormiret.com">www.ormiret.com</a><br> <br>Some people wonder whether there is intelligent life in other parts of<br>the universe; I'm not ready to give up on Earth yet.<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br></blockquote></div> <br>