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These guys are whimps.

I used to work in an academic building with an ancient HVAC system in which temperatures in my office would soar to 105 degrees in April, between having no AC, sun shining in the big windows, plus the heat dissipation from 5 humans and 20 computers. My deck included a Dell Windows machine and two old IBM machines running Linux and a Linux laptop and a Sun Ultra 10 and a "Pizza Box" 32-bit SPARC machine and two Sun Rays.

(Even if they couldn't charge enough tuition to get a decent A/C system, at least I had access to a pool of last year's hardware.)

We never evacuated... You see, that's why the U.S. is #1 -- people in any other country would bail out at 95, but we stay the course. ;-)




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