Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

[Dale]

Marc Joliet wrote:
> I wasn't sure what he meant, either, although looking it up, it seems
> that the term "mineral oil" basically means "a petroleum based oil".
> In fact, according to Wikipedia [0], that holds even for the food
> product "mineral oil" - which, according to the same article (see
> "Food preparation"), is forbidden in the EU (at least in food
> products). However, in medical products mineral oil is apparently held
> to strict standards and translates to "Weißöl". So it seems your baby
> oil is fine, but the cooking oil I'm not so sure about. (And here I
> thought mineral oil was something akin to vegetable oil and that it
> just had a weird name.) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil

I just looked at the bottle I use.  ;-)  The only ingredients is mineral
oil and fragrance.  I wouldn't put that in a computer but you can buy
pure mineral oil off the internet.  I don't like the smell anyway.  lol 
I have also seen it on the shelf as a laxative too.  I've never used it
for that either.  I just know it helps keep my skin from drying out
since I have severe psoriasis among other issues. 

I wouldn't cook with mineral oil tho.  Yikes.  lol   That even sounds
nasty there. 

I'm not sure I would put cooking oil in a puter either tho it may work. 
I dunno about that tho.  I just remember them using mineral oil in those
very expensive undersea robots.  Some of those cost millions of dollars
and I figure they wouldn't put mineral oil in there if it is going to
burn out something.  That would overcome the problem of a bad short and
possible smoke if water leaks on the mobo in a water cooled system.  It
does introduce other issues but that is true of most things.  Fix one
problem, create another.  Nothing is perfect. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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