-Carl
>It's sort of funny, actually. We were denied the use of 15 Linux
>Workstations here by the CS department. Mind you, these workstations are
>completely idle all day, just waiting for the next big project (which will
>be this summer). But the people in charge ran the client for a day and
>then said that the DESCHALL program was too great a tax on the processor.
>I'm serious. They said "well, these are the newest computers we have and
>we don't want to wear out the processors." I glared at them in disbelief.
>"It probably also voids our warranty with HP to run programs like this
>because it is an undue strain on the processor." (These are P5-166 HP
>workstations). He also said things like "Processors like these are only
>'rated' a couple of thousand cycles a minute--going over that is not
>something we're about to attempt without study as the effects beforehand."
>
>At this point I was ready to strangle to guy.
>
>"Tell them that if they can make a nice client that doesn't run the
>processor too hard that we'd be happy to help."
>
>Note again--he's NOT concerned about the effects of the other users on the
>systems (there aren't any). He's concerned about "wearing out the
>processors". Like they're going to stop working much more quickly if we
>run deschall on them than if they sit idle all day...
>