[plug] A Quote

[Jamie Moir]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, root wrote:

> > Must be a few different grids in Highgate, Im in Highgate myself and
> > really the only power hassles ive had have been during storms, one box is
> > on ~65days which was some storms awhile ago
> > 
> > Jamie

> I recently cracked 220 days here on a print server, with no ups, till a
> good blackout.  I find that an idle linux system with not much hardware
> will ride out a MUCH longer power glitch than any windows box, especialy
> if you have apm supported and give halt calls while idle. Not only that,
> but none of my linux boxes that are not running the distributed.net rc5
> contest, really need a cpu fan, they stay very cool with just a
> heatsink. (Measured under strict test conditions with a thermocouple on
> the heatsink). 

yeah weirdly the one that rebooted was a cyrix150 for a gateway, the
fileserver was the one that escaped, its a 266 celeron with no cpu fan at
all heh

> I say :- Green Pc's use linux.

:P blah, those new g3 macs dont even have a cpu fan running at 450mhz, id
love to see how long a pc last in that state :)
 
jamie