[svlug] 1U chassis entertainment & FC

[Aaron T Porter]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, paul wrote:

> Jim Warren says that the FCC requirements are totally BS but an example
> of bureucracy living on.  When was the last time an open box caused RFI
> at your house or anywhere?  And of course. the LA bureaucracy uses it as
> a reason to live on!

	Interesting anecdote... this morning I got my old-ish Altec
	Lansing speakers (4 speakers and a sub) out from two jobs ago
	when I packed up my desk and set them up on my home office desk.
	Before I plugged into a source, I could hear a fair ammount of
	static and what sounded like a faint voice coming out of the left
	rear surround speaker. After a few seconds, I recognized I was
	hearing Talk of The Nation... a few seconds later they announced
	it was KQED. I moved the speakers to a filtered power circuit and
	all is quiet again, but RFI is real. There's an incredible ammount
	of electronic noise in the average home or office. I've got an
	old P200 that makes an incredible humming at about 91.1FM
	on the stereo across the room whenever there are fast video
	updates (say a tar -xvf linux-kernel.tar) and that's with the case
	on too.