From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:50:14 -0800 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f25c0dc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 what's the form factor? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom wro= te: > On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, steve@quintile.net wrote: >> Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, >> dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most >> electronics dieing of old age. > > is that lifetime 2 years? > > i have 3 va linux machines here that are still working great > with no leaky caps. =A0they are all about 12 years old. > > (by the way, the motherboard + processor + memory > is free to a good plan 9 home. =A0you pay shipping.) > > - erik > >