Observations and a non-Linux question

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

Reading about Apple's flakiness about fulfilling G4 orders reminded me
that I can't wait for that ridiculous company to die out. Yes, it's nice
that the boxes are non-beige and, more importantly, that they open up nice
and easy so you can tweak things.

The irony is that the case is otherwise designed to inhibit tweaking:
way too short power cables, IDE cables with only one connector, weirdly
placed drive bays (out of the reach of the stunted power cables). The
first time I opened up a G3 to perform some surgery, I nearly shat: a
Maxtor IDE disk! For $2000 I expect something better than what would go
great in a Packard Bell.

So yesterday I irrevocably abandoned my Mac roots: I overclocked my CPU.
:) It's an AMD K6@200MHz, bumped up to 233MHz.

To make sure it was stable, I did a batch compress of 11 wavs to mp3s.
That took 2:40. Would anyone agree that if the CPU runs overclocked at
100% for 2:40 and doesn't fail, that it's safe to run it overclocked? Are
there any other tests I should perform?

I plan to bump up the multiplier by 0.5 every few days or so until I get
weirdness, then I'll back off. Any bets as to how high I'll get? :)

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  'I've been crawling on my belly,
  clearing out what could have been' 
  -- Tool