From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 14 13:19:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F88837B408 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D64DE441CD for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 68810 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2003 21:18:49 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Feb 2003 21:18:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3E4D5D39.1050502@tenebras.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:18:49 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Wilko Bulte , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Daniel O'Connor , Erick Mechler , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <1045206745.4513.65.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20030214135928.A2869@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3E4D1323.4030005@tenebras.com> <200302142058.h1EKwYhj059269@apollo.backplane.com> In-Reply-To: <200302142058.h1EKwYhj059269@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > Find old WW2 bomber instrumentation. The government used fairly > serious radioactive material in the glow-in-the-dark phospher > instrumentation markings. I forget what it was exactly. Radium. > It isn't enough to hurt you (though bomber pilots staring at rows upon > rows of these instruments for long periods of time might be a different > story), but they should be sufficient to mess up any high density memory > placed in close proximity (less then an inch away). It was fatal to those who worked in the factories where it was used -- they almost uniformly died of cancer, and younger than their contemporaries. All of the isotopes of Ra are radioactive, and many of the daughter isotopes are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message