Dan, a friend built it for me. He is retired from building and servicing large graphic computers for news papers and printing shops. He has always proclaimed that heat is the biggest enemy of a computer. Many years ago while working for RCA he built a small computer for the space program. When testing it had a major failure. When it was sent back to him to try and find out what went wrong he could not believe what he saw. All of the solder on the boards melted off and was in a lump at the bottom. They were trying to get this thing equipped for outer space. This was in the mid 1960s ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Cleaning my computer.
Dale, What do you do to your computers to eat them up like that? *GRIN* I have one machine at home that has been running since 1999. It has 384 MB of RAM and a 650 MHz processor, and runs like a champ. I had to get pretty ruthless about making sure only the absolute essential services and programs start on boot, but for the basics, it runs no slower than my spiffy machine with two gigs of RAM, and a 3 GHz processor. Of course, it would definitely run slow on other tasks, but for basic email reading and web browsing, it does fine. It is now mostly just a file server on my network. Lenny, seven fans on a machine! That's impressive. Our big honking database servers here at the university don't have that many fans. Must sound like the space shuttle lifting off. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links __________ NOD32 4013 (20090416) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
