Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> You must be one of the few people I know who can tell when a computer is > going to fail. Server computers are manufactured with a large number of diagnostic measurements and probes in them. You can read out temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, disk hiccups, power supply spikes, and so on. I keep an eye on these things. Anybody who has worked in and around data centers can look at the probe profile for a server and tell that it's about to fail. You can sometimes prolong the life of a computer by a few days by forcefully cooling it to have an internal temperature of 15C, which is what I'm doing while I get the new one ready. This is just the email computer, by the way. The gallery and contest computers are separate, and are in another building.