[RndTbl] Computational usage

Robert Keizer robert at keizer.ca
Fri Aug 12 23:38:43 CDT 2011


I was more curious than anything else to see if I could get pyrit
working properly, and how this laptop compares to other devices out
there.

I've thought about cooking eggs with a cpu actually, the AC was off at
the office when that heat wave came through a couple weeks ago..
couldn't get permission to use work equipment though.. maybe I'll use
an old thinkpad I have laying around.. would make an interesting
youtube video.. hey, would you look at that a quick search yields a
nice southern gentlemen giving a very nice demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uBNCN6v_gk - now thats what MUUG
should do.. bring in a few devices and plug them in on the conference
table - we could all have bacon!

As for my neighbors wifi, even if by some chance I managed to brute
force it I think I wouldn't be using their internet on account of my
girlfriend killing me.

Rob

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net> wrote:
> I'm confused: are you cracking Wifi keys or eggs?  ...'cause I'm pretty
> sure it's possible to cook eggs at 100degC.  Not to mention male
> genitalia - already happened to some poor guy in Europe a few years ago.
> If you run this on battery, the discharging battery will add to the heat
> load, thus throttling the CPU faster, thus extending the battery charge.
> Hmm, that almost sounds like a perpetual-motion machine.
>
> This brings up the question of why you're trying to crack your neighbour's
> wireless security, anyway.  Other than just an excuse to exercise the
> thermal-protection circuitry in your new laptop :-).
>
> -Adam Thompson
>  athompso at athompso.net
>  (204) 291-7950 - direct
>  (204) 489-6515 - fax
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-
>> bounces at muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Robert Keizer
>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 22:28
>> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion
>> Subject: [RndTbl] Computational usage
>>
>> Well I thought I'd share this with everyone, interesting screenshot
>> at the least. I found a usage for all the compute power my new
>> laptop has, including the gpu. Note the load in the background
>> terminal.
>>
>> Also: turns out some laptop bios's are smart enough to clock down
>> and not let you clock back up within a given timeframe if they hit
>> 99C.
>> GPU was most likely hotter, but its rated for I think 150C.
>>
>> Rob
>
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