Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
The CPU retention device7 November 2000
Xeons are big. And they slot into the motherboard much like a NIC. To prevent movement of the CPU and to ensure a snug fit, a retention device (basicaly, it's a rack) is used. Optionally, you can add fans. I got mine courtesy of Terry Hughes. The fans on the bottom of each had to be thinner than the top ones to avoid components or plugs. Terry wired these fans up to a regular disk drive power plug.
