[68632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Mon Mar 15 09:37:49 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:37:05 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4055BD03.5020405@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [3/15/2004 7:39 PM] :
>
>>
>> If you were willing to live in a place where an electrical overload
>> caused a fire (as opposed to tripping a circuit-breaker or blowing a
>> fuse), you have not correctly identified your worst problem, or the
>> the University's.
>>
>
> That's always there, but at least one dorm that I know of has this rule
> against running appliances in a dorm room.
A rule against running a "hotplate" or other heat-generating appliance
(or all "appliances" to avoind the arguments) makes sense. A rule
against running power-consumers that were not in the cost-of-overhead
calculation makes sense.
Restricting (or trying to restrict) computers in today's University
environment is delusional.
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