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Hi there mystery imaginary audience! I’m making this entry from my brand new HP NC 8430 Core Duo laptop! T2500 (sounds like a killer robot from the future, doesn’t it?) 2GHz dual core Yonah CPU, 2 GBytes 667 MHz DDR memory, 100 GB SATA 5400 RPM disk (budget budget), ATI Radeon X1600 with 256MB of video memory, gooorgeous 15.4″ 1680×1050 screen. Oh thank you kind and generous TU Delft!

After having zapped across gigabytes of data over gigabit ethernet from my trusty HP NC6000, I’ve been setting things up. As part of this, I’ve been searching around for tools with which I can keep an eye on the CPU temperature (yeah, I’m one of those control freaks).

Interestingly, it turns out that the Yonah has three temperature sensors on the CPU: one thermal diode for legacy support measuring the temperature of the CPU, and two high accuracy digital sensors, one for each core. Click here for more details.

So far I’ve only found one free Windows program that can read the new digital sensors reliably: Core Temp. Yes, I know about Everest, but that’s shareware. If you have any other tips, I’d appreciate it!

A man is rudely treated and fined 80 pounds by the London police for saying that the metal detector thingies used in the tube are a “piece of shit that wouldn’t stop anyone”. Sheesh.

Read the article in the Londonist by clicking here.

(Found on BoingBoing – don’t go to this blog, you WILL waste time.)

(ps. Yes, I’m back. David Allen’s GTD does work.)

I *should* be working on an already-past-the-submission-deadline article like a crazy man, but hey, it’s saturday night and I need to relax.

So, get the latest release of envedit, the friendlest and most flexible windows environment variables editor, while it’s still hot! Click here to go to its homepage and download the installer or the source code.

Night night.

In just 14 days, my Movable Type trackback script, mt-tb.cgi, has generated 500MB of traffic. Thank you, idiot trackback spammers!

Since we don’t really use this feature (I think), I’ve disabled this script and added the following rewrite rule to my htaccess:

RewriteRule ^weblogs/mt-tb.cgi - [F]


This way the spam scripts get a 403 without being handled by the wiki.

Hi there gang,

I’ve just released envedit 6.3.13, my extremely user-friendly and super-free (BSD opensource even) Windows Environment Variables Editor. Go to its homepage for more information on this little tool.

subliminal message: download envedit. use envedit. like envedit.