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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:11:27 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> I'm currently jumping through some hoops trying to get my Gentoo |
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> router and cable modem rebooted since they've stopped functioning and |
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> I'm away from them. Is there any sort of a slick setup to enable me |
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> to remotely kill/apply power to a couple of devices like these? I |
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> can't think of anything. |
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You can do this with X-10. I had my Internet connection die while on |
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holiday a couple of times,with no way to power cycle the modem, so I |
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plugged in in through an X-10 module and have a cron job that switches it |
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off and on if several addresses are inaccessible for a while. |
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