{"id":187,"date":"2003-11-18T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2003-11-18T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T05:09:23","slug":"relocate-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/18\/relocate-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"relocate pc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s real good having a nice fast computer under the desk, the breeze from the fans is making my feet cold.<\/p>\n<p>Needs an exhaust fan too &#8211; don&#8217;t like it only having one at the front (to cool hard drives) and the power supply&#8217;s (two).<\/p>\n<p>Whoever the idiot was who decided that the graphics chip should face AWAY from the airflow inside the case should be twacked on the head. That&#8217;s where the biggest lot of heat is in my box &#8211; right beside the graphics card &#8211; because there&#8217;s sweet FA airflow around it (well, excluding the little fan on the chip there).<\/p>\n<p>my old free open diary account finally got deleted &#8211; just after i downloaded it (WITH NOTES!), so now i may go update my free open diary import script to import notes as well. now that would be cool&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s real good having a nice fast computer under the desk, the breeze from the fans is making my feet cold. Needs an exhaust fan too &#8211; don&#8217;t like it only having one at the front (to cool hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/18\/relocate-pc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-31","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/free-open-diary-import\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":0},"title":"Free Open Diary Import","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-03-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I've imported all my old OpenDiary entries. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to export all the notes from OD, so they haven't made their way across. Below is the perl script I used to convert ODs export format into the MovableType import format: #!\/usr\/bin\/perl { open ODFILE,\"< $ARGV[0]\"; @entries=();\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;life, the universe and everything&quot;","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":518,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/slashdot-sun-open-sourcing-ultrasparc-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":1},"title":"Slashdot | Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-12-07","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot | Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design This is pretty ultra-cool news. Especially in academic circles and for upcoming chip designers. I'm sure that there's decent business models in place so that they don't cannibalise their hardware sales. What would be very cool is if cheap manufactures pick up slightly older\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;cool gadgets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"cool gadgets","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/cool-gadgets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":242,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":2},"title":"Inkscape","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-06-10","format":false,"excerpt":"Just did my first illustration using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). It's pretty cool. Open Source Vector illustrator (produces SVG graphics and has good bitmap export). i.e. select what you want, File->Export Bitmap (and it's already gone to the \"export selection\" thing, choose the res of the image, where it is, and click\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GNOME&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GNOME","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/gnome\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":337,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/free-software-wish-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":3},"title":"Free Software Wish List","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-01-14","format":false,"excerpt":"This has been gathering in my brain, I figure I should write it all down: X Render everything using Composite and OpenGL basically then we can have output that doesn't suck! Translucency is not only cool, but useful in some UI. All 2D graphics to be drawn with Cairo.Enough said\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4574,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/22\/my-power9-cpu-core-layout\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":4},"title":"My POWER9 CPU Core Layout","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2020-03-22","format":false,"excerpt":"So, following on from my post on Sensors on the Blackbird (and thus Power9), I mentioned that when you look at the temperature sensors for each CPU core in my 8-core POWER9 chip, they're not linear numbers. Let's look at what that means.... stewart@blackbird9$ sudo ipmitool sensor | grep core\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-from-2020-03-21-14-31-30-mycores-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-from-2020-03-21-14-31-30-mycores-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-from-2020-03-21-14-31-30-mycores-1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-from-2020-03-21-14-31-30-mycores-1.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4839,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/02\/every-time-i-program-a-mac\/","url_meta":{"origin":187,"position":5},"title":"Every time I program a Mac&#8230;","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2022-02-02","format":false,"excerpt":"... the preferred programming language changes. I never programmed a 1980s Macintosh actually in the 1980s. It was sometime in the early 1990s that I first experienced Microsoft Basic for the Macintosh. I'd previously (unknowingly at the time as it was branded Commodore) experienced Microsoft BASIC on the Commodore 16,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;code&quot;","block_context":{"text":"code","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-02-at-12.52.15.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-02-at-12.52.15.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-02-at-12.52.15.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-02-at-12.52.15.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}