Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 17 Sep 2025 01:45:25 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10aci43$2qksl$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7FmcSR/TTE35gRv271V95AjgRs94WL0rvQNiZpkLFJXxTtxHb2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nDqp0bBCCtsCut+eMq38IdkoTgk= sha256:vecNNm7KijVU0giW3ZA8eAWSzfYg3+d7tRy7t4HD3Sw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74365 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24308 On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:42:41 -0400, Paul wrote: > My university had "central heating", a building with a large tower that > burned a fossil fuel, and heating pipes traveled via tunnels, to other > buildings on campus. This is why when I was doing lab work in the chem > building, > and I would start a run, the temperature would change, like 15C between > start and end of a run, I would be sweating gumdrops, because the > radiators were uncontrollable and just roasted the living shit out of > where I was working. That's what "central heating" means to me. RPI had a similar setup. I don't know if it was planned but the tunnels ran under many of the sidewalks so they didn't need shoveling. A friend and I were investigating the tunnels one evening when we had an encounter with the Kampus Kops. We escaped but I had some scars in my leather jackets from brushing against the pipe hangers. They build a new building to house the System 360/30 and that was the only place on campus that was remotely climate controlled. The problem with what bills itself as the oldest technological university in the western hemisphere is that it has infrastructure to match. It wasn't really that bad -- most of it burned in 1904 so the buildings only went back to 1906.