Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I seriously doubt that the rev limiter would have allowed the
possibility of the required 6800 rpm. And since satnav readouts are
digital, why would you say *over* 175mph? Surely a specific number
would have stuck in the mind?

17-something. I didn't want to take my eyes off the road for long enough
to parse the last digit. At those kind of speeds, eyes off the road for
the half second required to clock all 3 digits on the sat-nav could be a
disaster. You're travelling at, well, I can't be bothered to do the
maths, but... "some" feet per second.

BTW, for anyone who happens to be in IT and fancies a good chuckle,
trot over to Squirrel Solutions and check out the 'server room'.

Anyone who fancies a good view on how to recycle old kit into servers
you mean? Got a classic Pentium 200 running as the Samba PDC, PIII-450
running the mail server, Athlon 550 running the intranet web server,
another classic P200 running backup DNS, and (not shown in the photo) an
Athlon XP2800 with just under half a terabyte of storage running as the
media server. (I work from home... if it looks like an attic, that's cos
it is!)

We're moving to new premises in the next couple of months, so will
update that page as and when.

Web sites I'm hosting don't go on those boxes though, I've got a 1U
rackmount server sitting up in Manchester... AMD XP2800+ with 2GB RAM
and 250GB RAID disks. Which is, to put it mildly, b*****d quick. The
Athlon 550 box runs the intranet site and development stuff.

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