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Re: Worst design decisions?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny Abello)
Thu Sep 18 09:24:52 2003

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:20:10 -0400
To: Ryan Dobrynski <ryan@viaccess.net>
From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0309180902220.9403-100000@sarah.viaccess.net
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


How about MB chipset fans which always seem to fail! I avoid any mobo with 
a chipset fan if possible. This is still commonplace and I still see them 
fail all the time.

At 09:09 AM 9/18/2003, Ryan Dobrynski wrote:

>I have beef with every chasis designer that has ever left a sharp edge
>hidden deep inside thier "case of doom" just waiting to gash some poor IT
>guy in a most unpleasent manor..
>
>also ASUS who insists on putting thier onboard sound interface at the
>BOTTOM of the MB when they know that the little cable you get with the
>cdrom is half the length of the board. you end up with an analog audio
>cable thats stretched tight and now in the way of all your PCI slots...
>/rude
>
>Ryan Dobrynski
>Hat-Swapping Gnome
>Choice Communications
>
>
>Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking
>for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.


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