[geeks] Ping?

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2/20/06 10:06 PM, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>> On 2/20/06 9:49 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:
>> 
>>> In fact our furnace failed this morning and it was less than 55 degrees when
>>> I
>>> came in.
>> 
>> Switch on some more hardware. I'm pretty much heating my appartment  on two
>> SGI 320's and two Ultra 30's. :P
> 
> :)  My biggest problem is that i have a lot of heat in the closet with
> the rack, and the office keeps warm becasue of that, but little of that
> heat makes it's way to the bedroom.  There are precisely two things that
> use electricity in the bedroom, a lamp, and the alarm clock.  If i could
> get away without either of those in there, i would.  The bedroom is for
> rest, and electronics do nothing to help me rest, therefore they do not
> belong in that room.  In fact, my cell phone is kept outside of the
> bedroom at night for that reason.

No need to stick the machines in the bedroom... Some clever duct work can
distribute the heat anywhere you want it!

Seriously, they make stuff these days that enables you to reuse just about
all of a household's excess heat in pretty efficient ways. I know of a
company where the blue-collar workers in the warehouse are used to heat the
ladies in the typing room. Pretty nifty stuff.

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