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Smart Monitoring PC Hardware Launched By NVIDIA
MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has just introduced a new open-industry standard for real-time monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis, and water cooling systems. Dubbed ESA, which stands for Enthusiast System Architecture, the company hopes the standard will be adopted across the industry. A new wave of ESA compliant hardware that can be monitored and controlled via a standard interface could ensue, like smart health-monitoring power supplies and other components, that would increase system stability and reliability. 'The ESA standard is built around the USB HID (Human Interface Device) specification and has been submitted to the USB-if HID subcommittee for discussion and approval. ESA is essentially a hardware and software interface that takes data collected by analog sensors and converts it to digital information that can accessed via software. Below are a handful of slides taken from an NVIDIA-produced presentation on ESA.'"
Mod -5 joke that was never that funny in first place and is really tired now
I'm seeing two different slashdot interfaces on two different computers. On one computer, I get a new interface that seems to be based on Javascript to filter and load articles dynamically. On the other one, I get the old static interface where the entire page must be reloaded when I click an article or change the filtering. This happens regardless of browser (Firefox and Opera), and it doesn't matter if I delete ~/.mozilla or ~/.opera and use factory default settings. I've even tried using VPN to see if the different IP addresses on the two computers were the cause, but not even that made any difference. The only difference left is that the computer that sees the new interface has Fedora Core 6, and the one that gets the old interface uses Slackware 12. Googling has not turned up anything on the subject. No one even mentions the new interface. What the hell is going on here?