From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 28 5:59:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1A237C1D1 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 05:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A2FE6F60150; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:56:30 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: Subject: RE: Quiet cpu fans Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** -----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