Am 27.02.2011 00:55, schrieb Sherry Shaw:
> clipka wrote:
>> ...("Lipa" is polish for lime (linden) tree; "Lipka" is the
>> deminuitive form; the "C" is from "Christoph".)
>> ...
>
> BTW, pardon me for going off the off-topic topic, but is it just me, or
> are there really, really lots of guys named
> Cristoph/Cristopher/Christian/Chris around here? Has anyone ever
> calculated the Chris Quotient for this place?

I think the quotient is still comparatively low among the POV-Ray 
/users/ - but the list of developers & contributors seems to be swarming 
with them: There's Christopher Cason, Christoph Hormann and Christoph 
Lipka among the active ones; plus past contributors Chris Dailey, Chris 
Huff and Chris Young. Of all those contributors listed in POV-Ray's 
startup message, we account for 15% thoughout all of POV-Ray's history, 
and 37.5% for the 3.7 version.

Among the users, I've always found the high percentage of Steves and 
Stephens striking; and the coincidence of both our Jims having the 
initials J.H.

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<spock> Fascinating! </spock>

One wonders if perhaps an individual's being named Chris (or a variant) 
tends to result in a fondness for computer graphics, or if it's a 
generic tendency toward logical pursuits...?  However, the "Steve" 
connection may be clearly reflected here:

http://ncse.com/taking-action/project-steve

Do our parents hold the reins of our later lives by virtue of the names 
with which they saddle us?  It's a scary thought.

--Sherry "Just Horsing Around" Shaw

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On 2/26/2011 11:25 AM, Stephen wrote:

>
> http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
>

Looking at this, the +12 rail is indeed 12.xx, generally fluctuating 
between 12.1 and 12.2, so I think it's perfectly OK. CPU's min max for 
core 1 (the one that always seems to run the hottest) is around 98 and 
idles at 46.

I believe this is junction temperature, the CPU measure from the 
motherboard is about 86. System temp is about 37, ambient is around 22.

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Am 27.02.2011 13:54, schrieb Mike Raiford:
>
> Looking at this, the +12 rail is indeed 12.xx, generally fluctuating
> between 12.1 and 12.2, so I think it's perfectly OK.

Definitely so. There's much more tolerance allowed on the +/-12V rails 
than that.

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On 27/02/2011 3:52 AM, Sherry Shaw wrote:
> Do our parents hold the reins of our later lives by virtue of the names
> with which they saddle us?  It's a scary thought.

They do and it is.
I was labelled with an unusual first name and kept it until I started 

I remember quite a few years ago reading that people who have unusual 
first names find it harder to get on at work.


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Regards
     Stephen

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On 26/02/2011 11:54 PM, clipka wrote:
>> I've not seen my i7 laptop go into turbo
>
> It may be disabled by the BIOS or chipset or whatever; after all,
> typically Laptops go for low energy consumption, whereas turbo is going
> for maxed performance.

I checked and it's not but no matter as I'm happy with its performance.

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Regards
     Stephen

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On 26/02/2011 11:54 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Any idea what the max working temperature is?
>
> Not really. I think back then I found some information indicating that
> around 90 degrees Celsius is a "healthy" upper value, but I can't give a
> guarantee for that information.

I think I found out :-(
Round about 94/5 degrees C my laptop shut down. I had been Poving with 
SSLT all day.

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     Stephen

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Am 02.03.2011 02:24, schrieb Stephen:

>> Not really. I think back then I found some information indicating that
>> around 90 degrees Celsius is a "healthy" upper value, but I can't give a
>> guarantee for that information.
>
> I think I found out :-(
> Round about 94/5 degrees C my laptop shut down. I had been Poving with
> SSLT all day.

Good to know that its self-protection mechanisms are working.

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On 02/03/2011 5:26 AM, clipka wrote:
>> I think I found out :-(
>> Round about 94/5 degrees C my laptop shut down. I had been Poving with
>> SSLT all day.
>
> Good to know that its self-protection mechanisms are working.

That is a positive way to look at it :-D
Rendering on 6 cores keeps the temperature in the high eighties.
BTW do you know if the "duty cycle" has been disabled in 3.7?

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Regards
     Stephen

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Am 02.03.2011 11:26, schrieb Stephen:

> Rendering on 6 cores keeps the temperature in the high eighties.

That's virtual cores I guess?

> BTW do you know if the "duty cycle" has been disabled in 3.7?

Yup. There had been some discussion whether to re-implement it, but it 
was decided not to, because the only purposes why anyone would ever want 
to throttle POV-Ray were thought to be keeping the system responsive 
(which would be served better by setting the thread priority), and/or 
avoiding thermal problems in zero gravity environments (after all that's 
the very reason it was implemented in the first place). Looks like 
nobody anticipated the power hunger of SSLT then.

But let's see how the recent changes to SSLT affect its power hunger. 
I'd expect it to get back closer to normal rendering, as it now traces 
most of the rays against the full scene as well, not just the SSLT 
object itself.

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