On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:16:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 22:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > The problem is real. There is no placebo effect to worry about. > > > > Currently, Athlon64 box is as far from my wife as possible (70 feet). > > Based on our experience of other high-MHz or GHz devices, she would have > > to be at least 250 - 500 feet away. To avoid this problem, we have to > > If you live in an urban or suburban area, you *probably live less > than 75m from your neighbors and their high-MHz PC, and *definitely* > 150m from them.
Well, we're in farm country, The houses are 70' from the edge of the road. Our nearest neighbour is across the street: 70' + 70' + 40' = 170' to their front door plus however far to their microwave and PC. It is a factor over which I have little controll. I do have control over my own server. > > Besides, EM radiation drops in intensity with the square of the > distance. > > How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines? > With a head ache, of course. > Or stand it when the neighbor turns on the microwave oven? > :) > Are you stocking up on incandescent bulbs? They'll be going away > "soon". > It will be a few years. > [big snippage] > > > > ----- > > > > Boxes and their limiting specs which I have looked into (in no > > particular order). > > > > AlphaServer 2100 min 250 Mhz > > God those are ancient... We had those back in the mid-1990s. > I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520. Right. Its ancient, mid-1990's technology for which I am looking. One that will take the memory and drives to handle today's software and data-set size. Unfortunatly, that was during the shift from propriatary busses to standardization on PCI. For example, by the time IBM RS/6000 PPC boxes used PCI, they were just over 200 MHz. They were nice looking boxes, able to keep three PCI busses busy: two full scsi busses feeding two gigabit networks while running around 300 MHz with 4 PPCs. They still command a high price. I've never heard of anyone having one die on them. Ron, what other ancient hardware do you remember that may be suitable. I can browse eBay, search eg: "166 MHz -GHz" for each MHz about which I am aware, but I can't do that for the wider Google-land. Are there big server boxes that I am overlooking? I'm also going to look into scsi drive holders in case I end up with a server with few bays. Thanks Ron, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
