Wake-on-Ring (WOR) or Wake-on-Modem (WOM) is a specification that allows supported computers and devices to wake up or turn on from a sleeping, hibernating or soft off state (e.g. ACPI state G1 or G2), and begin operation.
Wake-on-Ring (WOR) or Wake-on-Modem (WOM) is a specification that allows supported computers and devices to wake up or turn on from a sleeping, hibernating or soft off state (e.g. ACPI state G1 or G2), and begin operation.
The basic premise is that a special signal is sent over phone lines to the computer through its dial-up modem, telling it to fully power-on and begin operation. Common uses were archive databases and BBSes, although hobbyist use was significant.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).