Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Wouter Verhelst 

| On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
| > Darren Salt wrote:
| > >I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written...
| > >>Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software
| > >>for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run non-security-supported
| > >>snapshots. Apart from writing software for embedded arm things, I can't 
| > >>see
| > >>the value
| > >"Linux desktop box" comes to mind...
| > 
| > But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box 
| > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box?
| 
| Because it's cool. In both senses of the word (have you ever had to
| measure the temperature of an i386 box?)

(amd64, but I guess the point still applies):

: tfheen@vawad ~ > acpi -V
     Thermal 1: ok, 26.0 degrees C

I think the room temperature is 19°C.

: tfheen@golem ~ > acpi -V
     Thermal 1: ok, 34.0 degrees C

(This is my home box, so a little less air circulation there.)

Not exactly hot, are they?

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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