[TriLUG] Thursday Night Meeting becoming OT Hardware Q

Brian Henning lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com
Wed Sep 8 22:14:34 EDT 2004


BZFlag is teh rox0r!!!  hehe sorry..
But BZFlag *was* one of the main reasons I had for booting into FC1 until my
hardware all started to act like crap.  Now any 3D app, regardless of
platform, will bring the system to a very unfriendly crash within moments.
It's driving me nuts, too.  Even Winamp's Milkdrop plugin will cause a BSOD
in windows after a few seconds.  Just for argument's sake, does anyone think
that could be a CPU problem?  My processor is getting some age on it, and
has had its heatsink removed a few times (not while operating of course, but
for switching mobos), undoubtedly making for less efficient heat transfer..
the thermistor I have taped to the top of the processor tends to report
around 47-50 degrees Celsius (it averages a few degrees higher lately
because our air conditioner is broken), if that's relevant.  The
motherboard's CPU thermometer currently reads 68 degrees C, I guess because
it's closer to the actual die.  I'm not really sure what is considered
nominal for an Athlon XP 1400..
Anyhow, I apologize for the digression, but I thought I'd toss it out there
and see what the really smart people on the list thought. :-)

Cheers,
~Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Jeff Tickle
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:49 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Thursday Night Meeting


On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 21:39, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> Greg Kuhn wrote:
> And there's typically a wireless access point there, so you can get
> on the net for: back-channeling over IRC / Gaim / Jabber / MSN Messenger
> / whatever, looking up stuff related to the presentation, downloading
> drivers, emailing yourself notes, blah, whatever, blah...  Or just
> keeping yourself amused if you find the presentation boring.

I've found that the less interesting presentations cause a surge in the
popularity of BZFlag.  Might be a good idea to install it on any
laptop(s) before going... of course there is the wireless, but sometimes
you just have an emergency.

-Jeff

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