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Re: Hardware for new Linux box

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From: John Underwood
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:00
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 at 21:46:40, Tim Haynes
<piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote in demon.tech.pc:
(Reference: <slrn838su0.j2.piglet@pigsty.td.micromuse.co.uk>)

>Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> doodled in uk.comp.os.linux:
>
>> Your logic is thus totally faulty because the active region of the chip
>> is at the same temperature either way.
>> I could go on but I sincerely hope you don't design chips as you show
>> such profound ignorance of how they behave in a system.
>> You really should learn about junction to ambient heatflows then you
>> could understand what I am talking about. 
>
>Come, come, gentlemen (and any ladies who happen to be passing)... thanks to
>"Oz" for the more elucidating expositions on the thermodynamics of chips, but
>can we cut this petty insulting behaviour now?
>

Hear, hear. I intend to dig out my textbooks and look up the facts. I
won't, however, be sharing the result of my research - some idiot will
tell me I am a fool for believing the wrong text book.

If this is the result of a relatively innocent question about Linux,
Windows starts looking attractive - it certainly seems to produce more
general agreement.

-- 
John Underwood
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From: John Underwood <john@jsunderwood.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Hardware for new Linux box
Date: 1999/11/19
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