In light of approaching deadline I think the latest workaround, in order to get a prototype together for the filming, will be to have the client talking to the server and then that client can dictate the speed of the fans RPMs. This omits any direct taxing of the CPU.
One way the actual CPU can [...]
Graham showed me good coding practice today, basically illustrating that we were attempting to write sophisticated code with simplistic tools (gedit) and simplistic coding methods (my bad coding practice)
Rules of thumb – any function (routine) should only be the size of a window, any larger and its functions should be split off into other functions [...]
I tried the previous days methods with the forkbomb scripts, but the way that script is structured this results in a forking of the serverrelay.pl (probably a bad idea to attempt to incorporate a forking script within a forking server), and therefore makes the defusebomb script a little null and void.
Hitting a despairing point right [...]
Graham shared his server info from Coal Fired Computers with me, with some very general instructions about how to use it
To be brutally honest I am still a little in the dark about what I am meant to use it for, and trawling through the files Graham had written simply made the task all the [...]
Today was a day of humdrum experiments using slowdown to slowdown (FNAR!) the desktop environment. Read on if you dare but the results are not rivetting reading
Slowdown on Ubuntu Processes
using the process for “gnome-session” had no slowdown whatsoever
using the process for “gnome-panel” had dramatic slowdown, past the point of usefulness
Slowdown on Open Office
To test [...]
I FINALLY got slowdown working – simple issue of needing to preface slowdown with “./” when in terminal command line interface. This is because the slowdown file is an executable.
That is an executable may make it unsuitable to our task, but it uses specific linux protocols which means it could be built from ground up, [...]
The fans for the tower PC are located in hwmon1/device/fan3_input
This fan is controlled by two files
pwm hwon1/device/pwm2
/etc/fancontrol = fan control config file
Basically this fan control can let me decide the min and max RPM of the CPU fan – thus I could have the fan running really slowly or very fast in an exaggerated manner. [...]
Lisa and I finally got around to the other material side of our project by attending some Buddhist chanting up in Golders Green. As ever actually talking to people about the practice we are seeking to explore is a million times more ‘enlightening’ (couldn’t resist) than what can be gleaned from the internet. Theres probably [...]
Today was the day me and Lisa aimed at checking in with Graham on where our project is going.
I’d intended to talk to Graham about the scripting issues I was having with the arduino and slowdown scripts but we both ended up getting side tracked down trying to get lm-sensors to work. This was because [...]