Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:59:13 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Quiet cpu fans Message-ID: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMICEFOCAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007270025570.54966-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com>
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** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kris Kirby ** Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:30 PM ** To: David Scheidt ** Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: Quiet cpu fans ** ** ** On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote: ** ** > My solution at home was to have a diskless 486, only needs ** a power supply fan, on my ** > desk, and the real machine in another room. It died, so I ** have the dual CPU ** > box on the desk at home, with two cpu fans, a powersupply ** fan, a case fan, a ** > fan in an ISA slot, and a fan on a disk drive, fans in the ** external disk ** > box, CDR, and tape drives. It drives me absolutely nuts. ** ** Turn up your music or start wearing earplugs. I actually ** take advantage of ** the noise though. Most of my machines do not have power LEDs ** because I've ** cut the connectors down the middle and use them for SCSI. ** (These machines ** are also equip'd with IDE, which is used, or a second SCSI card.) ** ** Besides, real machines don't need idiot light, because they ** are never off. I used to spend my days working next to all my equipment. A cisco 2501, a pair of Max 4000s, and a handfull of servers. I actually had a hard time staying awake. All that white noise is enough to knock anyone out. When we moved our office, I was actually hoping that our equipemnt room would have enough space for a cot so we'd have a good place to take naps, but that didn't work out. :( -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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