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Swaying CPU Fans

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the floating-in-the-breeze dept.

Vindi submitted a New Scientist story about a CPU fan that flaps in the breeze. 2cm metal or polyester fan blades, and use less power then a traditional rotary fan. They move less air then the traditional fan, but for laptops, using 99% less power can't hurt. Update Hey its a duplicate from saturday! Guess I shouldn't post while planning my trek to see LotR tomorrow. Go ahead, flame on.

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  1. who's fault? by mr.ska · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Should we flame CmdrTaco to a crisp for repeating a story that was already posted less than a week ago? Or should we flame Vindi for submitting a story that was already posted less than a week ago?

    Aw, screw it. In the spirit of the season, I'll just wish them both a Merry CowboyNealmas!

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  2. Slashdot search index by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    One of the major problems is that, as it says on the Slashdot search page, words of less than 3 characters are not indexed.

    This means that searches for things like "IBM" or "cpu" or "CSS", etc end up with no results. This makes it much more difficult to find things like duplicate stories about AMD CPU. etc

    this likely needs to be fixed so that when an editor searches for a dupe he does not get trapped.

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