{"id":4983,"date":"2013-03-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/03\/12\/redistributing-computers-among-offices-for-heating-purposes\/"},"modified":"2013-03-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T07:00:00","slug":"redistributing-computers-among-offices-for-heating-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130312-00\/?p=4983","title":{"rendered":"Redistributing computers among offices for heating purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I joked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/14\/1075573.aspx\"> people who rearrange computers in their house during the winter in order to use them as space heaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Turns out this happens a lot at Microsoft. One of my friends said that one of his coworkers used a small heater in her office to keep warm. On the other hand, his office always ran warm because of all the computers in it. They hit upon a simple solution to both problems: &#8220;Now she&#8217;s using a 12 core\/24 thread space heater that&#8217;s a lot quieter than her old one.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> At one point in time, I had a large number of computers in my office, including an Itanium prototype. (You knew it was a prototype because it contained <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/09\/21\/472296.aspx\"> Engineering Styrofoam<\/a>.) The thing generated a lot of heat. My friend across the hall, on the other hand, had a cold office. Solution: With some help from colleagues, we moved the Itanium across the hall. Two problems solved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I joked about the people who rearrange computers in their house during the winter in order to use them as space heaters. Turns out this happens a lot at Microsoft. One of my friends said that one of his coworkers used a small heater in her office to keep warm. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, I joked about the people who rearrange computers in their house during the winter in order to use them as space heaters. Turns out this happens a lot at Microsoft. One of my friends said that one of his coworkers used a small heater in her office to keep warm. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}