From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <769b58f43b908586ca581d2bfd2fcccd@ladd.quanstro.net> <4B7D8650.6030409@maht0x0r.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:46:34 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df11002181246rba8e3aeu98ab4a26997906db@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom Topicbox-Message-UUID: d6b3c310-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > while i agree in general that ecc is a good idea, i can't > subscribe to predictions that seem so far from real-world > experience. in many cases it's all about location. Where I used to live, 7200 feet up, it was a huge issue. Where you live, i am assuming close to sea level, and with a small number of machines, the statistics say that you're unlikely to see it. But I would not want to take several thousand of your machines to Los Alamos and try to make them run ... ron