On 3 May 2011, at 14:51, DanHodgson wrote: > I have just returned from a holiday to notice that my iMacs fan was > running and making a loud noise. I realised that the software called > 'growl' was causing this, i'm sure you will agree its is highly > dangerous that growl can have the permission to control you mac even > in safe mode, it could of easily caused a fire! VERY UNHAPPY WITH > GROWL!
aside from any dubious reasoning/ecological responsibility for leaving a computer on in your house while on holiday, a program doesn’t necessarily need permission to run your fan high. in fact, it doesn’t even have to control your fan, it just has to do some complicated sums on your processor and the OS will take care of the rest ;) more seriously: how did you determine growl was the cause? it is likely if this is the case that a bug in growl had caused something to go wrong, and as a result causing your computer to work too hard and run the fan. is there any more information you can give us about the state of your computer before you killed growl? what do you mean by ’safe mode’, why were you in it? also, can you tell us the version of growl (in the about tab in growl’s system preferences pane)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
