Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:18:49 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting Message-ID: <3E4D5D39.1050502@tenebras.com> In-Reply-To: <200302142058.h1EKwYhj059269@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <1045206745.4513.65.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <xzp7kc3s4ll.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030214135928.A2869@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3E4D1323.4030005@tenebras.com> <200302142058.h1EKwYhj059269@apollo.backplane.com>
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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
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