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July 18, 2004

Overheated Laptop Syndrome

Computer Hardware at 08:38:05 PM MT (link) | I was reading some advertisement-ridden magazine sitting on my dining room table today--some special crap by c|net, entitled College Buying Guide. So I'm paging through it wondering if it was possible to stuff any more advertisements into it, and there's this one by Antec, on O.L.S, overheated laptop syndrome, with an advertisement for some notepad cooler pad thing.

I thought it was pretty lame.

Then I go to use my notebook (gundar), which I had left upgrading to the latest packages from Debian Unstable... and it was off. Going over to the controlling terminal on my main machine, I see:

gundar kernel: Critical temperature reached (100 C), shutting down.

Yeah. That is a bit warm. Kudos to Linux catching it and shutting down my machine. That's the highest I've ever seen it go--I guess I should be glad that it wasn't on my lap.