---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:08:21 -0400 >From: Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Oldest Server you run >To: misc <misc@openbsd.org> > >Gordon Grieder wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:22:43PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: >>> Bryan Irvine wrote: >>> > You win. >>> >>> I'm waiting for Nick Holland to chime in... he's probably got an SE/30 >>> in production, or maybe a VAXstation 2000. >> >> Nick replied ages ago but his machine is still processing the outgoing >> mail. ;) > > >New computers run so hot that failure of any of the fans can be fatal >rapidly. My (overclocked) 100MHz DNS server's processor ran so cool, I >just unplugged the processor fan. It was completely pointless while >running OpenBSD, and it booted fast enough that the heatsink worked fine >passively. I do plan on upgrading my mail and webserver soon, but I >suspect the newer machine won't last anywhere near as long as the old >machines did. >
the model-T effect! if it isn't built to break, it's unamUrican.
