Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF

As part of our 10-Year anniversary, we've decided to have a little charity auction, with the cash going to the EFF. The items currently up for bidding are 'Triton' (the big old tower case from the first x86 used to host Slashdot from Feb 11 1998 through much of 1999... picture is attached to the story if you're curious). A low numbered UID (3 or maybe 2 digits!) so you can win those stupid low UID pissing match threads. Your URL plugged in the story where we announce the auction winners. Oh the fame! The Slashdot Grab Bag: We're putting stuff around the office in a box- random t-shirts, hats, even an old Nokia NGage. The mystery box could contain anything that we stuff in the box before the contest ends... there's a picture of what we have so far attached. A copy of the watchmen trade paperback singed in Hemos's 1999 house fire. An @slashdot.org email alias (tasteful names only ;) The auctions will be running for like 10 days, and we'll post the results when they come up.

Triton currently has a couple of P2s in it that may or may not work, as well as a number of SCSI controllers that may or may not work. It also has a 300W power supply that may or may not work. Remember, you are donating to charity here... but these guts have been sitting in a closet for probably 5 years now. We don't have any idea what works.... the machine was originally hosted in our Holland office, but eventually was shipped to California for colocation. While there it got its guts replaced from dual P133s to dual P2s. After that, it flew back to Holland where it was a file server for a few years until we retired it

The grab box will at least contain some shirts. We have a crate of shirts- some given to us by random companies, others are mis-prints of various corporate things... I think we have some static stickers and hats... but there's no promises here... again... you're making a donation to a worthy charity here! The picture shows you some things that will probably be in the box including Nate's Nokia ngage, a collection of hats... we'll throw in a few of the 10-year anniversary t-shirts as well...

We're willing to sign the things if you think that makes it worth donating more. Or more likely not, if you think it's worth more without our childish scribblings on it. And bid high folks! This is for the EFF after all...

Comments

Only one question

[epiphani]

Why is there a framed picture of Vegita in the grab box?

ah well

[stoolpigeon]

the low uid is already more than I can afford - but since it's going to a good cause I can live with that. I wonder what one would go for without a charity involved.

Can I put something in?

[cvd6262]

I'll donate my "Sounds of Slashdot" CD (which include Debian 2.0) to the auction. I got it in a boxed set at Linux World in '99 or 2000.

For those of you who haven't heard it, it's some dance mix Rob put together (or something).

Re:Can I put something in?

[strredwolf]

Rip the CD man, rip the CD!

1337

[Javi0084]

Auction off UID 1337!!!

Re:Whats so special in low uids?

[Skyshadow]

So, wow, but still, whats so special about it?

To sum up basic economics: Anything that people can't have has value to the people who can't have it.

Re:Low UID?

[alexandre]

I tried to ask this on the CmdrTaco hometown party thread... i was actually wondering how many of the low UIDs (<100, ha!) were still active? (logged-in in the last year let's say...)

Re:Low UID?

[emj]

Yeah I remember thinking "I don't need no stinking login, I can be anonymous!". :-)