[ale] lm_78 stuff

[Chris Ricker]

Since someone asked me about this,

For those of you with recent motherboards who don't already know about it,
take a look at

http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/

It's a module that lets you view all the data about your running
computer (CPU temp, core voltage, fan rpms, etc.) from your LM78 or similar
chip. It's handy if you have a celeron 300A running at 450 that you're
afraid of burning out (and from the looks of mine, your fears are
groundless.  Even w/ a make -j of the kernel tree while I'm compiling
mozilla, I haven't gotten above 30 C).

There are also various GUI front-ends available which read from it and sit
in your Window Maker dock or similar if you use a different wm.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu