From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 15 11:16:28 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 0972A37B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAAA43FDD for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1086542C3B; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:15:30 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Kent Stewart , Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: ECC memory error reporting Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:15:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Daniel O'Connor" , Erick Mechler , FreeBSD Stable List References: <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200302151013.20323.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200302151013.20323.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302151915.27660.wes@softweyr.com> 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 On Saturday 15 February 2003 18:13, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:11 am, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:53:54PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > Or take the machine to Moab for the weekend, that's where a lot of > > > the Cobalt-60 comes from. It's a lovely place, and you come back > > > with a nice tan whether the sun shines or not. > > > > Moab.. that reminds me of funny colored heaps of debris, with a fence > > that had yellow warning signs on them. Could not read that from the > > road, so stopped and use the telephoto lens to take a closer look. > > Basically said something like "radioactive waste, don't stop, keep > > driving'. Which I did.. > > > > That the place you mean? > > That is the place but Wes probably drives by some similar heaps outside > of SLC. Unless they have finished cleaning them up. The mines were > around Moab but some of the processing was done outside of SLC. There was a processing plant right in the middle of the Salt Lake Valley, a company called "Vitro." They left a huge tailings pile in the middle of a residential area that has now been confined under a lead blanket, sealed so it won't leak into the nearby river, and a golf course built above it. In the late 40s and early 50s they had a different way of disposing of the tailings, which were full of low-level radioactive isotopes with reportedly short half-lifes. They sold the low-level tailings to the two local brick companies who used them in cheap bricks they sold to the local school districts. Never ever underestimate how stupid your government can be. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message