Luke S Crawford wrote: > sky...@cs.earlham.edu writes: > > >> OSHA and likely your state's labor department regulate the maximum noise >> level a worker can be exposed to without protection. You ought to be able >> to get your employer to provide you either ear plugs or something more >> permanent. >> > > I've got earplugs and I offer 'em to everyone but nobody uses them. > Not that I blame them, I don't use them myself, and I probably do 90% of > the colo monkey work by myself. > > The other day at the hardware store I noticed noise dampening headphones; > they looked like the enclosed ear protectors and claimed 27Dbi protection, > but they had a line in where you could plug in your MP3 player. I should > give something like that a go.
I love my Bose noise canceling headphones. Flip the power on, and you can hear the noisiest frequencies damping out. It doesn't totally eliminate everything, but I can no longer tell whether the air conditioner is on or not. Also, I've had tinnitus for years, so even if it was totally silent, I wouldn't be able to tell. Classical music sure beats 4 sun servers, a disk array, an air conditioner, and 2 Macs, all within 6 feet of me. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
