[techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Magni Onsoien
Today our server died. Since autumn 1999 it has been in a machine room in the corner of an open office (no ceiling above the machine room, just walls). In this office all the 6 employees are heavy smokers (thank God I'm not working there!), so there is constantly smoke in the machine room. The ser

Alan Carr Cures!! (was [techtalk] Smoking kills!)

2000-12-12 Thread Conor Daly
Just while we're on the subject, I want to recommend a terrific book. It's called "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Alan Carr (don't have the ISBN handy) Someone loaned it to me, I had no plans to stop smoking at the time but I decided to read it anyhow just to see what it was about. It took

Re: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Doc Nielsen
> Today our server died. Since autumn 1999 it has been in a machine room > in the corner of an open office (no ceiling above the machine room, just > walls). In this office all the 6 employees are heavy smokers (thank God > I'm not working there!), so there is constantly smoke in the machine > roo

[techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

2000-12-12 Thread Tania M. Morell
for everyone else to see... (didn't get to the list) I will try this next.. probably tomorrow. ...gotta work now. =) -T Original Message Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:01:24 +1100 From: Andre Pang <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Lewis
I've never had an experience like this as a result of smokers, but we do have a car dealership client who's server sits very near the repair shop. Anytime you have to crack the case on it, the inside looks like they used it to drain the oil out of an old VW Rabbit. This has caused seriou

[techtalk] converting vinyl to digital

2000-12-12 Thread Kathryn Hogg
For those of us who grew up in the pre-CD days, what do you use to convert your collection of vinyl albums to a digital format? I've got about 500 albums that I would love to convert if for no other reason than reduce the continuing wear and tear of them. I'm assuming that I'll need a soundcard w

Re: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Julie
From: Chris Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've never had an experience like this as a result of smokers, but we do > have a car dealership client who's server sits very near the repair shop. > Anytime you have to crack the case on it, the inside looks like they used it > to drain the oil out of a

Re: [techtalk] converting vinyl to digital

2000-12-12 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:02:35PM +0600 or thereabouts, Kathryn Hogg wrote: > For those of us who grew up in the pre-CD days, what do you use to convert > your collection of vinyl albums to a digital format? I've got about 500 > albums that I would love to convert if for no other reason than re

RE: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Davida Schiff
Rumor has it (thousands of years ago) HP put all their "used" keyboards in the dishwasher to clean them, and then sent them out as replacements to their customers when their keyboards failed, as warranty replacements. Davida -Original Message- From: Julie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Eric Richard Turner
Check out the keyboard at http://www.inspace.com/flexi.html... I think that one should be dishwasher (and smoker) safe! ;-) Cheers, Eric R. Turner On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Davida Schiff wrote: > Rumor has it (thousands of years ago) HP put all their "used" keyboards in > the dishwasher to clean the