Re: Das blinkenlights

Martin D Kealey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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