On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:32, nate wrote: > Ron Johnson said: > > > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise, > > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater > > in the room. > > I like white noise, but unfortunately not all computers emit such > noise. my tivo is one, as is my laptop, I gotta turn on a powerful > fan at night to drown out the tivo, which has 2 drives in it, at least > one of them has gotten to the 'soft but piercing whine' point where > I have trouble sleeping. Doesn't compare to my laptop, it's about 10x > louder :( > > just gotta have enough fans to offset the whine. Used to have my redhat > server in my bedroom, but it too was too loud with 5 x 10k RPM drives, > the whine was loud despite 3x30CFM fans and my floor fan running. but > in my living room I can barely hear the whine, since there are about 7 > other computers running at any given time with lots more fans, my 48port > switch's fans are really loud and do a good job at generating white noise, > one time last year when a friend came in from outta town I actually slept > next to my rack so he could have my bedroom for the night, wasn't too > bad since there was so many fans(with all of em maybe 250CFM total)
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