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Day: January 8, 2005

Convert An Old Battery Into A Linux Cpu Monitor

January 8, 2005 by Jason Striegel 5 Comments

AA Battery CPU Load Monitor

do you have one of those aa batteries with the yellow test strip that doesn’t go yellow any more? pierre-philippe coupard put together some great instructions for turning a used aa battery into an analog cpu load monitor for a linux pc.

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