Quieter cooling, and more work...
Jul. 26th, 2001 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bandicoot's book, I attached a 5.5-Vdc power supply to my jury-rig fan, to see if it operates more quietly. It does.
I fired up the VAIO at an ambient room temperature of 74.1 def F and the fan running. After 20 minutes, the temperature of the air coming out of the machine's exhaust vent had edged up to 76.6 deg F, and after almost 5 hours of operation, the temperature stands at 78.4 def F.
Not too shabby, but I still prefer using the eSlate.
My next step will be to try to find some better Cyrillic fonts for X Windows and a keyboard handler so I can type in Russian. Yesterday, while researching a term, I fired up Mozilla, homed in on rambler.ru, and then - when I realized I really had no way of typing in Russian - I opened up a separate window displaying my LJ friends page, and composed my query by cutting and pasting Cyrillic letters from the LJ window into the Rambler window. The procedure is somewhat inconvenient and cumbersome, but it eventually got me the results I needed.
I translated and sent off some material related to water quality monitoring in the Caucuses. The concept is interesting, considering the political and ethnic issues in the region. As soon as I sent that job out, I got a call to do some editing, due Monday. I also got a call asking if I could go to Houston next week instead of the week following, but I had to decline that one... there's too much to do before Ieave as it stands now.
Off to find fonts and a keyboard driver to Russify X...
Cheers...
bandicoot's book, I attached a 5.5-Vdc power supply to my jury-rig fan, to see if it operates more quietly. It does.I fired up the VAIO at an ambient room temperature of 74.1 def F and the fan running. After 20 minutes, the temperature of the air coming out of the machine's exhaust vent had edged up to 76.6 deg F, and after almost 5 hours of operation, the temperature stands at 78.4 def F.
Not too shabby, but I still prefer using the eSlate.
My next step will be to try to find some better Cyrillic fonts for X Windows and a keyboard handler so I can type in Russian. Yesterday, while researching a term, I fired up Mozilla, homed in on rambler.ru, and then - when I realized I really had no way of typing in Russian - I opened up a separate window displaying my LJ friends page, and composed my query by cutting and pasting Cyrillic letters from the LJ window into the Rambler window. The procedure is somewhat inconvenient and cumbersome, but it eventually got me the results I needed.
I translated and sent off some material related to water quality monitoring in the Caucuses. The concept is interesting, considering the political and ethnic issues in the region. As soon as I sent that job out, I got a call to do some editing, due Monday. I also got a call asking if I could go to Houston next week instead of the week following, but I had to decline that one... there's too much to do before Ieave as it stands now.
Off to find fonts and a keyboard driver to Russify X...
Cheers...
