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Maxtor (Seagate?) drives are junk.

Seagate's purchase of Maxtor was purely for intellectual property reasons. Maxtor owned a couple of patents on technology for exceptionally high speed data transfer within the drive. DoveBid Auctions has had decommissioned Maxtor assembly line equipment auctions constantly for several months now - Seagate is decommissioning them all. (But in the next year or two look for Seagate drives to get even faster! :)

Taco, and to backup your PO^H^H, use one of these. http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=c pt49516 .

Watching some auctions such as Dove bid you might find something like this http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=c pt49558 to keep you warm in the winter. Nothing like 57 36 gig drives and some fiber for your diet.

I am waiting for SCO to go out of buisness. Just so I can see this

No paper shredders, but they do have pallets of keyboards and more importantly, Gondolas of mice!

I never, ever would have imagined myself saying: "HEY! Look at that! You can get a gondola of mice from Enron!"

Grrr. Where's George Carlin when you need him. :-|

From here...

"DoveBid shall charge and collect from each successful bidder a 13% buyer's premium for each sale at the auction, in addition to the purchase price as bid. Purchasers who pay in the form of cash, cashier's check, company check (with a letter of guarantee) or wire transfer, shall receive a discount from the buyer's premium equal to 3% of the purchase price. In addition, Auctioneer reserves the right to charge a nonrefundable $25 registration fee for its own account to purchasers who bid over the Internet at a Webcast auction. All subsequent references to a "Buyer's Premium" shall include this registration fee."

13% plus $25 registration, plus texas sales tax...

Or this Inspirational poster Share the Wealth

Who would want a server that looks like this.

(They mixed item desctription for item 141, and picture of 1441)

You left out video wall.

Don't miss the auction of Enron's art.

Some interesting pieces there.

esp. with the faux wood grain veneer finish - ahh, they don't make em' like they used to...

http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=w eb2165924

OTOH, you probably need the Sun Enterprise 10000 to hook it up, so that's another $200.

OTOH, you probably need the Sun Enterprise 10000 to hook it up, so that's another $200.

Apple occasionally dumps old stock (some refurbished, some new) at Dovebid.com, an online industry liquidation auction house (they're the uys that handled the Enron liquidation).

When Apple dropped the CRT iMacs I managed to pick up a new, fully loaded 600MHz iMac for $600 US. The same machine (refurbished) at the Apple store was $900.

That link does not work in Mozilla. thos one does

- Sam

Look at all those VA Linux servers! Over 150 of them for sale. Somebody actually did buy VA Linux products!

You're right...

eeh?

I didn't know Napster was *that* big until now... jeez

The Equipment Catalog on the right side of that page details what they really have.. mmm yummy hardware.

On the weekend of May 9-11 2002 both Spiderman and SWEP2 were released on various IRC channels. The sudden rise in channel populations was staggering: on Dal, #Newest-Movies went from a usual 450ppl to 1300; #VCDvault went from 350 to 1000; all the movie channels on Dalnet, Efnet and the XDCC chans on Criten.net were massively overfilled.

On May 10 2002 Dalnet reached a level of 139000+ concurrent users.See chart

The usual population of all major and minor IRC networks is just under a million. But on that weekend it was almost double. Seeing Efnet hit 100k isn't anything special. There are bigger networks, and events that make 100k users on Efnet seem ordinary.

I can't believe you guys put this yawner on the front page but rejected my PS2 Networked Divx player story, or even worse, my ultra-cool Enron Asset Auction story, which every geek on IRC is slobbering over.

DoveBid has done a number of dead .com auctions, and they webcast them. I've never used them, so I don't know if they are worth the effort, but I have browsed their equiptment and they have a bunch of stuff.

I've seen some pretty cool stuff on Dovebid.com. They have real life auctions AND you can bid on stuff on line while the auction is going on. I thought it was pretty neat...

No, I don't work for DoveBid nor do I have any interest in them. Just something I stumbled onto awhile back.