[CS-FSLUG] Mouse Jiggler???

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

Looks like what I am looking for.  Thanks.

On 2/17/09, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at ritchietribe.net> wrote:
> Usually you can turn off the power saving things in the BIOS. In linux,
> apmd, uswsusp and acpid are some of the programs that handles this, you
> might be able to configure them to your needs. You may not need all of them.
>
> You could rebuild your own kernel and leave out the parts that enable this.
>
> This document tells you how to make it work. You could probably reverse it.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml
>
> JSR/
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Isbell, W5JAI <jim.isbell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Recently I saw an advertisement for a "mouse jiggler".  The object of
> > the device, a small USB plugin, was to simulate the movement of the
> > mouse every 20 seconds to forestall the loss of the active program
> > into "resting" state.
> >
> > I am running a computer that is the server for my telephone system and
> > when the program goes into a "rest" state it takes 20 seconds for it
> > to come back up when called so the first call is often missed.
> >
> > It would seem to me that there should be software that could do this
> > without a hardware device.  Anyone know of any such thing?
> >
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Jim Isbell
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you are just taking up too much space."