Re: Das blinkenlights
Martin D Kealey <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, cr wrote: > Reminds me of an old tagline - > "If it's not actually on fire, it's a software problem" I've seen a system literally start smoking *because* of a software problem: masking interrupts and therefore not responding to an overheat alarm and cranking down the clock speed. (Fortunately it was just the paint on the outside of a load-dumping resistor and I hit the power switch before anything more significant was damaged.) -Martin _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug