[rescue] Rescued Sun servers, now what?!

Bill Green bill at supposedly.org
Thu Jun 16 21:57:19 CDT 2011


 On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:36:34 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse 
 <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:

> If you can find one.  I've never seen one; the cans that are marked 
> as
> compressed air generally aren't.  Look carefully and you'll usually
> find they contain some halogenated hydrocarbon, not air.  (If you're
> worried about different gases acting differently, use compressed
> nitrogen: uniform and atmospherically totally innocuous.  Why 
> nobody's
> selling cans of compressed nitrogen instead of what they are selling 
> I
> don't know - nor why the truth-in-advertising folks aren't cracking
> down on them for misleadingly claiming they hold compressed air.)

 Thanks to you and Robert for pointing this out.  The behavior of that 
 stuff
 made me suspicious, but I hadn't realized what it was coming out of the 
 can.
 Should've thought about it a bit harder, I suppose.


More information about the rescue mailing list