From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NjY3E-0001uq-7o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:10:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D9AEE0C9A for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (mail-ew0-f216.google.com [209.85.219.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E970E07F7 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so198495ewy.26 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:45:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ucYNVoENQwEVv8RQ2jEVpEnoOxgDfIfsBOU9MhU/IuU=; b=rpX8Z8I7fwOlbVJns7Oijto0qZSpRvblAHxcOTydgFNIgA1fnuSj+5yvqJffopTuBS bRJyjOUZE7AVyN8cS3wliH6kcE6fHZLi7Ov5/Kyu1qK44LK1tyvP870aiaoIsDEGx0mF xtjtcn01zWsDoLIfaZ05ZI2Ek7qkrbnJQDQBU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=c4ZJ/DI7CyZZPg2t2ymwO0HB6ToJp5YjNL9lMBRUHMDNcbpIx7Q/Gh4O9PB2dcO5x9 QS2dl4FqHFieu/+7+6HIP21eyQVbOO587OXSArsLJ0GdrBRhkOUDwyvJ1GZNfbPHN2dU x/kcaGqibeZ+UJsZi1RWNZQFIiNeKEyWyC4ek= Received: by 10.216.185.75 with SMTP id t53mr2384309wem.208.1266842702746; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:45:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm14461812gvb.26.2010.02.22.04.45.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:45:01 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:42:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <1266312515.4b7a65432cb30@imp.free.fr> <3ac129341002212354p7b0a6cadte2ae9ce1c204b618@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002221442.42724.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 86cfd3cc-446e-4a88-a3cc-49875174d7e0 X-Archives-Hash: 39fa9a09125c04a9f42dfaabf7a0cbb2 On Monday 22 February 2010 12:57:27 Stroller wrote: > On 22 Feb 2010, at 07:54, daid kahl wrote: > > ... > > As far as I know, solid state devices are much more susceptible to > > solar flare damage, particularly if you are outside. This is not > > exactly common, but hey. Of course I also have a theory that not an > > insignificant number of computer problems are caused by bit-flips from > > cosmic ray induced muon showers, but I digress... > > I have recently decided to blame solar flares & cosmic ray induced > muon showers whenever one of my customers asks why their PC is broken. Flavour of the moment here where I am: High energy gamma rays from quasars at the edge of the visible known universe produced when the universe was a mere 700 million years old. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com