Hello all: Am following Roberts advice and to make a long road shorter before jumping on the learning curve of the spilling out of the computers from their cases, which i will now do in a second go around, I am getting ready to install the operating systems on each of the 3 computers and 1 laptop(should i even include the laptop?)
Currently I am using the latest version of Mandriva linux. However this is a full end user install and comes with a lot of stuff. I assume I need a simpler install minus all the extraneous stuff on the nodes. Any recommendations or should i just install the laterst version of mandriva on all of this. Am researching an 8 port switch. Any experience regarding which brand or models might be best? On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM, arjuna <brahmafor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert: > > I value life too much to want to go that way just yet! However I do know > what a conductor is, i was just trying to figure out what that metallic > looking plate in the tower case was that housed the motherboards etc and was > not a conductor...? > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Robert G. Brown <r...@phy.duke.edu>wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Geoff Jacobs wrote: >> >> Yes, it is possible to kill yourself with low voltage. You have to >>> really work at it and/or be unlucky, but it can be done. A DC resistance >>> from leg to arm of 100 ohms or so is hard to achieve. Stabbing oneself >>> with electrified needles, for starters. >>> >> >> As in: >> >> http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html >> >> Improving the human race one incident at a time... >> >> There was also the joy of touching a 9V battery across the tip of your >> tongue (safe enough, but more than enough to convince you that 9V can >> make you go "Ow"). Or the dangers of 12V batteries in a saltwater >> environment or even when it is raining and your hands are wet and your >> skin is maybe a bit split when you grab one by the posts. >> >> As I said, do NOT mess with even "low" voltage electricity unless you >> know things like what a conductor is, or you too might qualify for a >> Darwin! And we'd hate that...:-) >> >> rgb >> >> >> Robert G. Brown >> http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/> >> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 >> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 >> Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 >> email:r...@phy.duke.edu<email%3a...@phy.duke.edu> >> >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > arjuna > http://www.brahmaforces.com > -- Best regards, arjuna http://www.brahmaforces.com
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