From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 18: 4:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A536B14E2A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12247; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:02:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:02:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Palmer To: Rick Hamell Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Computer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Rick Hamell wrote: [my q: what is 'burning in'] > Usually it's a piece of software designed to run a computer at > it's maximum potential. Statistically computer hardware goes bad within > the first three months of usage. Burn in software tries to put 3 months of > use on all pieces of the hardware, hopefully catching any problems. BTW, > we use to do 20 makeworlds in a row for this. :) Yes, I got another reply to the same effect. Thanks. This means all my computers are effectively burned in, then. :) Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message