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Nov 23, 2005 08:05

Regency is a 7 year old UMax Celeron-366 machine which provides NAT/firewall and shell service here at the Wabe ( Read more... )

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graymalkn November 23 2005, 17:46:38 UTC
a.) six weeks
b.) kills all crew members in hibernation, or, if you're lucky, kernel panic
c.) immediately after

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mikeys November 23 2005, 19:25:16 UTC
a.) 82° and clear, falling to 75° in the evening. Or someone turns up the thermostat...
b.) stops talking to north bridge, DRAM starts whining that CPU never calls it anymore.
c.) next froot company recycling week.

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beergeek November 23 2005, 19:25:42 UTC
You know, you can only beat your machine like that so many times before it decides to leave you for good. It'll eventually find out that it can get a new case and a net connection at the Battered Server Shelter.

A) April 12th, 2007, 7:22pm
B) repeated service failures, daemons crashing & restarting, device errors, then kernel panic no reboot.
C) April 13th, 2007, 3:52am

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mister_borogove November 23 2005, 20:25:08 UTC
you can only beat your machine like that so many times before it decides to leave you for good.

I dithered over adding the line "baby, why you make me gotta hit you?" to my post, but eventually decided it was in questionable taste.

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beergeek November 24 2005, 01:42:31 UTC
if she would just LEARN TO LISTEN

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peachinprocess November 23 2005, 23:14:13 UTC
r- you're only supposed to hit it once, then you need to bring it flowers and tell it you didn't mean it baby, it was just the booze and you had a long hard day and and and

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anonymous November 24 2005, 02:08:49 UTC
You really ordered a "new heatsink/fan and a replacement CPU (a slot-compatible Pentium III 533)"? Where did you find such an antique? Seems unlikely to be cost effective for a simple NAT/firewall that can be replaced with a hardware version for $30 (which you may already have ( ... )

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mister_borogove November 24 2005, 04:04:50 UTC
Where did you find such an antique?

Computer Geeks.com. Note that I *wanted* a Celeron 366; they didn't have anything that primitive. (I didn't look very far for it, though -- someone probably does still sell them new in a very dusty sealed box from the back of the warehouse.)

Seems unlikely to be cost effective for a simple NAT/firewall that can be replaced with a hardware version for $30 (which you may already have).

It came to 40-odd dollars with shipping, though as I said in the original post, our Airport base station can do its NAT/firewall function. Regency does offer some other functionality which is occasionally handy, like giving A Certain Someone a shell account via which they can log into ICB and chat with me without having to justify it to Another Certain Someone who is particular about giving out user accounts on A Certain Other Machine.

Anyway, it may actually never overheat.

After 6 hours uptime with the lid off, I shut the machine down to button it up properly, and felt the heat sink. It wasn't even warm!

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anonymous November 24 2005, 05:08:56 UTC
"After 6 hours uptime with the lid off, I shut the machine down to button it up properly, and felt the heat sink. It wasn't even warm ( ... )

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anonymous November 27 2005, 12:39:44 UTC
although it would be cool to see your CPU do this

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054

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