On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:40:16PM -0400, G. Vincent Castellano wrote:
> > It's not like quackle can work the cpu any harder than a busy loop.  
> 
> Sorry, wrong.  CPU throttling as a means to reduce power consumption 
> on laptops has been around quite a while, and the technology is making 
> its way into desktop systems.  More power consumption -> more heat 
> dissipation.

That doesn't have anything to do with whether you blame quackle for a 
machine overheating.  If you can overheat it with quackle, you can 
overheat it with anything.  I'm pretty sure quackle doesn't use any 
special please-overheat-now opcodes.

> So this is not at all far-fetched, although I've never had personal 
> experience of any equipment behaving as close-to-the-edge as Cesar 
> relates.

It's not that it's far fetched, it's that it has absolutely nothing to 
do with quackle.

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