Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

["Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

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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