[asterisk-users] asterisk-1.2.26.tar.gz Thoughts?

[Hans Witvliet]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:26 +1100, Rob Hillis wrote:
> I wasn't intending to blame Ira for his own problems - I was intending
> to point out that running a production system on discarded hardware is
> a really bad idea.
> 

Let me jump in on that.

Some other posters mention (un-)aging of systems.
All part of your system (being cots, commercial or military grade) that
have moving parts, or are heated up, will degrade.
So if you use forced air cooling of cpu / gpu / northbridge /
southbridge / psu / hdd, these have to be replaced after some years. No
matter wether if they are working fine or not. For those parts are MTBF
defined, and you can not win from statistics.
Same is true about the HDD itself (moving parts & heat). Replace them
after their expected lifetime is thrue.

This is true for all manufactured machines, cheap or expensive.

But it gets worse for machines from the around-the-corner shop.

I found out, over and over again sadly enough, that the bulk of them
does have a faintest clue what kind od damage ESD can do to electronic
components. They just grap some parts together, power it on, try to
install some bloatware. And that's it.

Problem with ESD-damage is, that there is a fair chance that you wont
notice the damage for two or three years....

I know from Sun and IBM that all of their used parts serialnumbers are
tracked, all parts are tested before they are used or shipped to
customers. All applicable engineers are regulary re-trained considering
ESD and their manufacturing department has to follow ever ESD rule.
(Otherwise governemental departmens won't do business with them)

Even medium-sized companies have people who are completeli ESD-ignorant.

So for serious installations, either commerical-quality, or diy, if you
know what you're doing...

Hans