[clug] Idle thought: can I migrate processes from a high-power to a low-power system?

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> <snipped>
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>>  but insert "-r" (resume)
>
> Should be:-
>
> but insert "-c" (continue)
>
> (as Hal suggested)
>
> not "-r" *(recurse)*
>
>
>
> You can also use aria2c to continue the download, many switches are the
> same as for wget with the added advantage that you can add additional
> sources and protocols (ftp, bittorrent etc).

For the specific task of downloading files, some ADSL modems/routers have 
features allowing a machine behind it* to initiate a download on the modem 
- via browser plugins and the like, I think.  Download can continue when 
you turn your desktop machine off and is tranfered onto the desktop 
machine later.

Never played with them myself.  Almost certainly Windows-only; just 
pointing out that others have attacked this specific problem (and that the 
OP almost certainly has an ADSL modem/router ;-)

Yours,
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(*) and presumably any other machine in the internet, given most 
firmware security ;-)