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Markybob - what's a "prion" anyway? :) What's the story behind the program name? a prion is a mis-folded protein molecule that lacks rna/dna and is the cause of many diseases, such as mad cow and creutzfeldt-jakob disease. i cant point to a real reason for it, but it seemed appropriate to...

What's the purpose of the giant button with a (prion?) molecule on it ? When I press it, nothing seems to happen. 20-to-1 says you're using pygtk 2.10 instead of 2.12 :P upgrade pygtk and it should work. it's the about dialog, since it has no menu to put it in, i decided to just make it a button li...

you need to install pyxdg. it does install fine on windows, btw. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg Thanks. I did it, and now get this: C:\FAH\prion>prion.py (python.exe:3360): libglade-WARNING **: unknown property `program_name' for class `GtkAboutDialog' Traceback (most recent call last):...

ah, good idea. i could even use pango to create a proper graph. i'll see about getting this stuff included later on this week. thanks!

you need to install pyxdg. it does install fine on windows, btw. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg

i havent tested it on windows (i only have linux), but i assume that it can. there's nothing in the code that would be platform specific that i can see. one thing i'd suggest is that you open a command prompt, then run "c:\python25\python.exe prion.py" and see if the console spits out any ...

bollix47 wrote:The overall totals have been fixed but not the Total CPUs for individual OS types.

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, fixed and reuploaded

bollix47 wrote:Working fine here.

One thing I do see is that on the world view the Active CPUs and the Total CPUs are showing the same figures(active).

thanks for the catch. fixed and reuploaded!

thought some here might like it...it runs on whatever has python (with pyxdg) and pygtk installed. let me know what you think :D http://code.google.com/p/prion/ http://www.dipconsultants.com/prion/ss1.png http://www.dipconsultants.com/prion/ss2.png http://www.dipconsultants.com/prion/ss3.png http://...

very nice indeed. cheers