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Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer
IcerLeaf writes "CNN reports that Office Depot will happily recycle one old electronics item per customer, per day, from July 18th through September 6th. Qualifying electronics include computers, monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, digital cameras, cell phones, and TVs 27" or smaller. Office Depot and Hewlett Packard will be splitting the bill. What's coming out of your basement?"
thats where I get rid of all my computer junk.
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What's coming out of my basement? Heck, I'm going to go and stand in front of these stores and try to take the old stuff from people who are going to recycle it so I can add them to my collection!!
:-)
I'm still looking for that old atari and timex sinclair...
Stop filing Federal Taxes, then ignore their mail and phone calls. Oh, they'll take everything.
The proper question may be who is coming out the basement.
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Twice a year up in Princeton, Minnesota they have a machine gun shoot (www.tankrides.com). Now, regardless of what your opinion of guns are - pulling off 100 rounds from an M-60, AK-47 or an M-16, I tell you, nothing compares.
.50 cal through it.
I stockpile old computer equipment to take up to the shoot so I can put a few rounds of
There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.
It's beautiful.
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
I was doing an IP renumbering, and I reset the default route on their web server. I was telnetted in at the time, from another room. [snip] She walked me up to the console, all remaining 50 keys on the keyboard and shattered monitor and everything.
;-) I'll bet you could have even hooked a dumb terminal to the serial port and fixed everything without issue.
And it was still running! Can't get that type of reliability out of a PC!
Bah, kids these days with their "disposable" Windows boxes. Wouldn't know real hardware if it hit them on the head! (Because they'd be unconscious. That shit is heavy!)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
So you replaced a piece of broken hardware with a piece of broken software?
(Sorry, just had to say it....)
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
I actually don't even have to put a price tag on it or wait until dark. I just haul it into the front yard or near the curb and it's gone within 2 hours. I'm amazed at the crap I've gotten rid of that way. The funny thing is that the people who take it are *always* grinning ear to ear, like they just won the freaking lottery. I figure if I can make someone's day and get rid of it, it's a 2 way win.
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Hehehe.....and if they ever throw out a big SPOOL....now that's just great coffee/dining room table material. Goes perfect with the orange velour couch you find....
College room decorating at its best. A spool...obnoxious couch...and walls decorated in 'early American rock poster'.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Filthy set of free-weights and a rusty bench were stolen the same night I put the "$50 OBO" sign next to it. It sat there for almost a WEEK before I had that idea...
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!