On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:47:25AM +1030, wulf@ping.net.au wrote:
| Allow me a stupid questions: Why would anyone want to manipulate the on/off
| times of a cooling fan? The system's manufacturer would have set these to
| match certain specifications that are mostly unknown to the common people
| and interference with this may possibly void system warranty.

I used to like the always-on feature the fan of my Toshiba Tecra 8000
offered. Toshiba had Windows software to do this but for other systems
(at least Linux) there was some free software available to do this.
This machine would run too hot for use on your lap and the always-on
feature really made a difference. I don't think having your fan always
on could void any warranty. Or, put differently, I wouldn't buy a
machine where warranty would be void if the fan was on continuously or
where the machine would die (permanently) if the fan was not on (this
same toshiba would just turn itself off if it got too hot, fan running
or not).

Just my 0.02 Euros.

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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