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Pick Up A Piece of Enron

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-kind-of-piece dept.

shintaro points out this massive collection of "gear from Enron on auction. Amongst the more than 3,000 in this auction (1 of 10) are state and federal law books, and numerous notebooks sans hard drives. Might be a good opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise Server? Office furniture is also on offer, Herman Miller and Knolls all over, not an IKEA item in sight. Interesting what Enron employees and shareholders must feel looking at this loot."

18 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. What? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    No paper shredders????

    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those will be in the Arthur Anderson auction.

    2. Re:What? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 2, Funny

      Martha Stewart already took all of those.

    3. Re:What? by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Enron was way past the point of Shredders : they worked with shrinters

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  2. Ha. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for the Martha Stewart Living auction. Mmmm, cheap pots and pans and bedspreads!

  3. My favorite auction item. by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amongst the more than 3,000 in this auction (1 of 10) are state and federal law books

    ...still in their shrink wrap.

    Ba dump bump! Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

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    rediculous.
  4. Re:Enron Equipment by TopShelf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good luck doing that without the hard drives!

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  5. Re:YRO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because... uh... Enron... Bush... Ashcroft taking your rights online away!!!!!!

  6. Ethics Handbook by ltsmash · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they'd have the ethics training handbook available. I'd definitely buy that.

  7. Let it be known by krray · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let it be known that we'll no longer "/." a server upon a story. Based on how slloooowwwww their servers are now operating we've "Enron'd" the Enron Auction.

    Nah, /. is quick and geekie...

  8. Re:Ethics Handbook - Never used! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they have one, it's certainly in mint condition-- probably still in the original shrink wrap. :-)

  9. Great Looking Sun Ultra Enterprise 6000.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  10. Still waiting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for SCO to go down, so I get get me a load of cheap Linux licences.

  11. Server slow as hell by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is their server so slow, this happened the last time there was an Enron auction, who wants to wait 5 minutes for a search?

    1. Re:Server slow as hell by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're new here, aren't you?

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  12. My Favorite by Cavio · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite personal piece of Enron memorabilia is a yellow rubber ducky they mailed me when they were selling bandwidth.

    Just the goofyness of it. It is so dotCom. Completely unrelated to networking, but here sits this happy little duck with an Enron logo plastered across it's chest and the slogon "GetCapacity" in it's URL.

    I use it to talk to when I'm in my office alone and face a moral dilema. Whatever the duck says, I do the opposite.

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  13. Holy crap.... by DiscoOnTheSide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless my brain is still scrambled from waking up... each one of those Compaq storage servers has a total of 666GB of storage... either someone over there has a sense of humor or we're close to the appocalypse :P

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  14. buying enron's assets... by 0WaitState · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe California can buy its power back?

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