[rescue] Noise levels
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jul 19 17:38:45 CDT 2002
On July 20, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
> > $500 in electric bills? A month??
> > What are you running? A Cray X-MP? :-)
>
> He lives in Texas with an really obsolete bit of
> airconditioning eq. A lot of americans do so (have
> old AC.)
I agree with this...but $500/mo in power bills isn't unusual in this
crowd; big iron in the home is pretty common among these folks.
Big old computers and big new computers...The former are cool and
will teach you a lot. The latter are almost hypnotic in there
testicular factor. But running both comes with a cost. For many,
it's well worth it.
-Dave
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