ambient noise

[da]

Last night, my office's Uninteruptable Power Supply failed (all told, the third to fail on me since November.) So I left my usual desktop turned off last night. When I started working this morning, I couldn't concentrate, it was just too loud without the masking computer noise.

Maybe that's a good reason why computers shouldn't be made silent?

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That Makes Sense

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

When i moved out to the burbs, bank machine beeps freaked me out. In the city and most of the inner burbs, the machines make no noise at all, lest you draw attention of criminals. I find the beeps annoying, and a danger, myself.

In my office, i can hear most of what happens in 5 surrounding offices, even with 2 desktops and a fan running. So from my POV, you do have a quiet work environment, though i easily see how the ATM beeps would be very annoying.