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Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor
Nixon8Pie writes "Know those little self-testing batteries? How would you like to monitor your computers load with them? Well, now ya can. 'These throwaway testers are quite clever: they use a layer of conductive ink that heats up when an electrical current runs through it, in combination with a layer of thermally-activated dye that turns transparent when heated up, revealing a third layer of colored ink underneath. Because the layers are printed with varying thickness from "0%" to "100%", parts of them become yellow before others, creating a bargraph effect that varies with the current applied, the battery's body itself sinking the heat produced by the conductive ink.' Pretty cool stuff."
So that's how they does it. I personally use my mouth. I'm sure I'll regret it someday.
clifgriffin > blog
They must be using the batteries to run the site. Slashdotted already.
less than 5 posts and the French webserver has already surrendered.
that's hosting that website, or this could be the first slashdotting to start a small fire.
Are you happy now? Y'all have slashdotted a battery.
The only battery affordable meter we had was for 9 volt batteries. And it was your tongue! And we liked the small spark it gave you to tell you it was working!
"His design is utterly revolting!"
"Shocking!"
"If I add more power, can I overclock it?"
"An electrifying hack!"
"More power to him."
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
... I guess those French servers just gave up when they saw all those requests coming. badda bing
Sorry about that.
one day I noticed the icemaker in our freezer made the sound it does before it drops the cubes into the bucket. So, I looked in to see if I could watch it work... then I noticed that an extra metal tube went under the ice cube mold. I thought, wow, that's kinda neat - they must circulate a little extra freon through there to make sure the cubes are super-cold*. So, I decided to touch it to see how cold it was. It turns out that it wasn't a cooler, but a heating element that was used to slightly melt the edge of the cubes to release them from the mold. And it was very hot.
That's how I burned my finger in a freezer.
(* I was thinking that didn't make too much sense because I knew icemakers were often add-on features, and replumbing the freon would be too complicated to do for an accessory)
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
Hope he didn't build a set to measure his throughput. It might overflow and explode.
Cost for running system monitor: $0.0
Time for setting it up: 00:00:30
Cost for Duracell load monitor: $9.95
Time for setting up: 04:21:23
Slashdotting the French: Priceless.
You put a wet finger on the negative end and touch the postive end with your tongue. For 1.5 volt batteries only. Don't try this on 90 volt batteries.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: Duracell is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Duracell community when
recently IDC confirmed that Duracell accounts for less than a fraction of 1
percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
survey which plainly states that Duracell has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Duracell is collapsing
in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in
the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Duracell's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: Duracell faces a bleak future. In
fact there won't be any future at all for Duracell because Duracell is dying.
Things are looking very bad for Duracell. As many of us are already aware,
Duracell continues to lose market share. Brown ink flows like a river of
shit.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the rumors.
Cum laude Theo states that there are 7000 users of Duracell. How
many users of Caldera are there? Let's see. The number of SuSe versus
Caldera posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there
are about 7000/5 = 1400 Caldera users. Connectiva posts on Usenet are about
half of the volume of Caldera posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
of nig cum. A recent article put TurboLinux at about 80 percent of the Duracell
market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 TurboLinux users.
This is consistent with the number of TurboLinux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, TurboLinux
went out of business and was taken over by SCO who sell another
troubled OS. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet
another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Duracell has steadily declined in market share.
Duracell is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
Duracell is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Duracell
continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this
point in time. For all practical purposes, Duracell is dead.
Fact: Duracell is dead
GNAA rocks - cumming to your town soon!
I wonder if the CPU meter is showing max load now?
Next!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Looks like they need to change the batteries on the webserver.
But... but... but... I like math AND destruction!
--- Ban humanity.
you see this error message: "You've reached your maximum number of comments you can post: 30 comments over 4 hours."
Awesome. Saw it for the first time today.
For those of you who noticed the site's not available, there's a little bar graph on their server.
Here's a live feed:
E |==============X| F
There are some things in life, that are simple, obvious and easy to do.
For everything else - there's Slashdot.
Bonnnjjjjooourrrrrrrr, ya cheese-eating surrender monkeys! Meet Slashdot!
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
If I was a heatsink manufacturer, I'd .....
;-)
1) Write on the side of your CPU heatsink the words "If you can see this , it's too hot!"
2) Paint that side with black thermochromic ink that changes temperature at 60 degrees C.
3) Profit!!!
Or, as the temperature drops from the bottom to the top of the heatsink, you could put things like "cool..." "warm..." "warmer..." "Hot..." "FUCK!" up the side of the heatsink. One glance and you'd know. Handy for those clear cases
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.