[rescue] Noise levels

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Sat May 18 23:47:58 CDT 2002


Or just change the air filter.

-duck-

KL

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:57:36PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> > The rack in my office has two SS5's, a 4U AXi Sun server, 2 2U dual
> > intel linux/bsd boxen and a 24-port compaq ethernet switch.  My office
> > has wood floors, and it is noticeably noisy in here now that I have the
> > entire rack switched on.
>
> You know you're a geek when:
>
> I got tired of $500 electric bills, and called out a HVAC tech/sales guy
> today.
>
> He said:
>
> - I need 3.5" more insulation in the attic.  I'm at R10, I need R30
> - need solar screens on all the sun-facing windows
> - need new internal HVAC unit (is 31 years old)
> - need new external HVAC unit (is 8 years old, doesent match internal)
> - need duct work
> - need new duct grates, old ones are inefficient
> - etc.
>
> For around $6K (thank god for trust funds), I'm getting my entire central
> heat and air system completely redone.. He said my electric bills should
> drop to around $150/month.
>
> My first thought:  "ooh. that means I can afford to run all my sparcs
> full time..."
>
> 8-)
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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