PETRIX

The Internet is full of content that does nothing but sucks an unlimited amount of computer resources and energy, producing greater and greater amounts of heat and noise.  One of the worst offenders is Flash Player, with energy-sucking ads all over the web. Even if you disable Flash Player, it no longer helps, HTLM4 and HTLM5 enabled browsers are able to play the distractions, possibly with even more energy wasted. I recently upgraded my dual core Pentium E2160 to a faster Core i3 thinking that my web surfing would be less frustrating. All I seem to have done is made more noise and increased my already huge electricity bill.  I opened four pages on the Finnish IKEA site. Made some tea, and by the time I returned to my desk I had all four cores running at 100% with processor temperatures rising to 91 degrees Celsius. I quickly realized that each one of the pages was stuck in an unthrottled endless loop sucking up all the computing resources it could access. Four pages equals four cores.