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Melt the Control Strip
MacHack '97.
Brian Gaeke (brg@dgate.org)
Dave Blundell (blundar@pohl.ececs.uc.edu)
We've found a way to channel the heat created by 604e processors into
the screen and melt the control strip. Note, using this too much could be
bad for your monitor. :-)
There's a long story behind all the Layer Manager stuff. All I can say is,
the source is there...waiting for a version 2.0... Oh, and it's
room temperature independent, running in sub-zero temperatures even if
your Mac doesn't.
Thanks & general shout out to:
• Benoit Schillings ("Multithreaded programming is more like a federation
of little demons working together than anything else"... "Do you have a
business card?" "No. Benoit at be dot com.") for inspiration & explanation
of the melt algorithm, amusing Dave and me with his Mandelbrot hack,
and just generally being the most amazing kernel hacker. One processor
per machine per person is NOT enough! Be OS forever!
• Chelly Green for working on making the algorithm faster, regardless of
whether we actually got any of his code in. :-)
• Brian Bechtel for telling me to play with the Layer Manager. (Brian is
still God after 5 years.)
• Quinn, Brian Bechtel, Pete Gontier, and Mac OS DTS for buying us dinner and
convincing me I still should follow my longtime dream of joining DTS one day.
• Hugues Marty, hugues@isoft.fr, for figuring out the Layer Manager and posting
it on the net, and for indirectly giving me my hack idea for '98.