On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:33:35 +0300
Jussi Peltola <pelzi@pelzi.net> wrote:

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> This is assuming 5 years service life,
> which is not very hard to get with carefully chosen hardware from the
> dumpster, but seems to be too much to ask when buying new...

Hear, Hear, Applies to most non specialist electronics. We just pulled
out an old microwave that my parents got in Canada over 20 years ago
because our 3 year old one just packed in. This is a recurring theme.

Old pcs without fans are great! and also improve the security of
schg on intel ;-)