Linux -- cleaning out the super mini computer

 I love the mini computers, and I have a super mini, as my main blogging computer.

This thing measures under 3x3 inches, and is very powerful.  However, it can put out 60w of heat, and the little fans are always running.  I have a 4x4 that is quieter.  Anyway, after a year, the fan was getting noisier.  I took it apart and flushed all the cooling surfaces with contact cleaner.  It uses a liquid coolant.

Much quieter how, and the fan runs steady.  I don't know if I'll go to this size again, or get something a bit bigger, with more passive cooling.

Arctic spills running out of juice

 

It's the only spill from the Arctic right now, freezing the poor UK.

It had a good run, adding a lot of ice to the Greenland Gap.  

But, Greenland has turned off the white light, and we must wait for a recharge.  

Da Bomb cyclone is still going strong.

Remember that I consider Leeds, UK, to be one of the main influencers of clange.  I think the nosa Venus guy picked it up after.  You can read Climategate for yourself.  That is why I am loving this.

ps. 10 to one they don't make it

ps.  Da Bomb is stuck.  Toronto getting cold air through a windy route.

Trying to do physics with weather-speak

 

I am very flattered that they are using my physics talk of 'colliding forces' and Arctic spills, but putting them into weather jargon.  That is mainly 'ridges and troughs'.  Of course, they will say something like they never heard of me.  Ha, ha.  

I blame weather jargon for the whole clange thing.  Who can understand anything?  It was all made up to create a 'priesthood' of weather people.  Anyway, they can have fun with this bomb (defined by some arbitrary thing), and ignore poor UK.  

I can't wait for some computer game, using a physics engine, and you have to throw a ridge at a trough.