[PLUG] Netgear GS116 Gigabit switch died. Maybe.

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Rick wrote:

> Believe it or not, I work in a formal IT dept. that has no A/C... it's
> currently 87 degrees at my desk as I am writing this...

   Nice to know I'm not the only one without air conditioning. It's 82F now.

   The heat has not been an issue with the computers (I turn on a large box
fan for the electronics, me, and the dogs). However, a couple of days ago I
tried -- twice -- to build the TeXLive SlackBuild package. One source file
is 1.2G compressed, it requires about 5G of temporary disk space, and the
build is so intense it shut down the system because the CPU was overheating
in both attempts. Learning my lesson, I waited until 6:00am the next
morning, when the air temperature outside was 54F (and the windows here were
open) and it built without a problem. This was a first for me.

Rich