Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Diogo Kastrup
Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi Curt, > > A shakey power supply would indeed be my alternative hypothesis. Hi Durk, I am not an electronics expert but I guess the temperature will affect the power supply too. And I think modern CPU/MB have temperature check built in and slow the clock to compensate. A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:52:36 +0100, Durk wrote in message <201003162252.37060.d.tal...@xs4all.nl>: > Hi Curt, > > A shakey power supply would indeed be my alternative hypothesis. > However, I would find it hard to imagine that the city power grid > would be so much more stable than the universit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Curt, A shakey power supply would indeed be my alternative hypothesis. However, I would find it hard to imagine that the city power grid would be so much more stable than the university's power network (which I believe is also connected to the public power grid anyhow). In addition, at FSWee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Durk, No idea about modern machines, but I've certainly had past machines that got flaky due to cpu cooling deficiencies. I've also had video cards with the same issue. I believe there should be an lm-sensors package where you can measure fan speed and cpu temp while you run. That can be use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 10:15:57 pm Pete Morgan wrote: > is it on webcam ? > Euuh, no. It's really not that interesting to watch anyway. :-) Cheers, Durk -- Download IntelĀ® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tool

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Pete Morgan
is it on webcam ? Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This is a little off-topic, but I thought I'd write a little about a rather > bizarre experiment I'm currently running, involving one high-powered 64-bit > Linux machine, my currently still cold living room, a central heating system, > and

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Folks, This is a little off-topic, but I thought I'd write a little about a rather bizarre experiment I'm currently running, involving one high-powered 64-bit Linux machine, my currently still cold living room, a central heating system, and a semi-infinitely looped shell script that keeps co