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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote at 13:58 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>Where can we get this? Do they exist for laptop/notebooks too?
>
> The Blinkenlights of the BeBox were custom hardware built into the case:
>
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bebox_CPU_LEDs.jpg
>
> With a desktop PC you might be able to make something like it using
> programmable LED strips that are meant to be used inside cases, but you'd
> still need your own custom software to drive them.  For a laptop you'd
> pretty much have to have it built in by the manufacturer of the laptop,
> though I suppose you could make a crude implementation of Blinkenlights
> with custom USB hardware.

Dang, I only have a laptop :(

> You also run into the problem that modern computers have way more than
> just two CPU cores.


You could do combined CPU load and ram usage?
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