Hardware Monitor 0.3 released

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Coparticipants in this world,

The announcement of a former release of the Hardware Monitor
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-February/msg00025.html)
seemed to be suggest that overheating a computer is a good thing for
your health.

Several readers have pointed out that this is _not_ the case; in fact
the smoke from a burning computer case may pose a serious threat. As
one reader puts it, "Hadn't it been for the 150 liters of water that
is circulated in the water cooling system I've setup, I would probably
have died, choking on my knees as I was. Next time I'll save the
gasoline for the grill."

So what is one to do? One possibility is to monitor the temperature of
your CPU. Then you at least get an early warning. Since today, the
Hardware Monitor can do that for you!


What's new:

  - support for lm-sensors monitoring of CPU temperature

  - the applet now automatically suggest different colours (from the HIG)

  - minor UI fixes


Features:

  - monitor CPU/memory/swap/disk usage, load average, Ethernet/modem
    throughput, CPU temperature

  - multiple views that all support multiple monitors:

   o  a curve view with smooth lines
   o  a bar view for the traditional horizontal bars
   o  a text view for those who want extreme precision
   o  a flame view to impress your friends

  - a modular design for future enhancements

  - well-behaved GNOME panel applet (no floating gkrellm-windows)

  - a Danish translation :-)


Version 0.3 can be downloaded from here:

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/

Screenshots are also available from the above page. The applet
requires Gnome 2.2 and the gtkmm and gnomemm-all libraries from
www.gtkmm.org.

Note that you need to install libsensors and setup lm-sensors with
your kernel if you want to monitor the CPU temperature.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/