Actually, Kodak recycles more than 90% of the material in their one-time use cameras. All the plastic and glass is ground down and remanufactured. The only thing they don't recycle themselves is the batteries for the flash, but I think they outsource that to someone else. Kodak and Xerox are both really big into remanufacturing, which is A Good Thing.:)
I have no kids, and never will. Diapers came to mind as something disposable because I work in a place where it seems half the employees should be wearing them. Nothing like being a system admin for a food service operation. All the worst workers, and shitty pay...
My workstation at home has 2 1 gig drives in it, and until I see the need for anything more, thats all that will be in there.
486s are good for a few things, specifically routers. I just gave away 8 30 pin simms to a guy who had a board for them; he's using it as a router for his home LAN. I got some 64 meg EDO simms for them, which didn't work in his motherboard, but work great alongside the pc100 sdram in my Soyo E5HM.
I most likely would have taken those 486s by the dumpster and found some use for them, even if it was just to use as storage space for the LAN, assuming the hard drives still spun up.
The only truely useless hardware for anything other than old time gaming (playing Wolfenstein 3D on my workstation, a p2-233 with 384 megs of ram is just not fun) is 286 and 386 class boards, because they can't run modern OS's (esp. 286's). Who needs a GUI anyway?
What the hell is up with everyone wanting to dispose of perfectly good items? Stuff like diapers should obviously be disposable, but computers? Thats just plain ridiculous. Even if a piece of hardware is totally shot, its got other uses, like hanging on the wall of the server room to remind the working hardware what it will end up being once it breaks.:)
According to this month's America's 1st Freedom (page 61), New York's (state in which I reside) Court of Appeals has "ruled in Hamilton v. Accu-Tek that victims of gun-weilding criminals cannot sue firearms manufacturers for the misuse of a legally manufactured and non-defective product." There goes those ridiculous lawsuits...
And on page 58... "Florida became the 26th state to adopt legislation protecting the firearms industry from reckless lawsuits..." Theres more than half the country saying those lawsuits are retarded...
Britain's violent crime rate since outlawing guns has gone up 68%. The tool used in the crime has nothing to do with the outcome. I'll kill you with my left hand if I have to. Same outcome, very different tools.
The guys over at pimpwar use paypal as a way to donate. I don't know how well it works for them, but I know I've sent them $10 a few times just because the game is fun.
Windows for the workstations, cuz dammit, I like games, and I have hardware no one would ever want to write FreeBSD or GNU/Linux drivers for. FreeBSD for the servers, because it's the best tool for the job.
You really should be using rounded floppy/ide/scsi cables inside any cases where heat is a problem. Plycon.com, frozencpu.com and many others have them. Well worth the extra cost.
It's a huge old 486 server case with room for 6 FULL HEIGHT drives (ahh, the days when seagate made 1.7gb scsi2 drives that take up the space of 2 cdroms...), 8 or 9 card slots and ~20 ports for db9/db25 ports. It's got my secondary DNS/IRC server in it now, but I'd gladly trade it for another AT case. I sure don't need all the space for a machine with 2 NICs and a video card. The power supply might not be adequate for your needs, but it is a 350W.
Why don't you move to a real state which allows competition for utilities, or write your congressman/senator to change the laws in your own state. Bitching about it here is a waste of time.
I can choose between at least 4 different electric providers in my area, and I would do so if my electric wasn't included in my rent. Same with natural gas too.
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Not using swap kicks ass and makes windows so much faster (mmm, less disk I/O on startup). I'm running 98SE on a p2-233 with 384 megs, of which about 54 megs is used by windows, so there's plenty for everything else. It's a bitch that Q3a won't run without being able to create space in swap, although there might be an option to override this. I didn't have it installed long enough to check.
Right to work protections suck, they make it even harder for me to fire incompetent scum that was hired before me. I'm glad I'm in NY though, at least I don't have to deal with that annoyance.
Who said I don't donate? WSKG and WXXI have both received money/time from me. One can only donate so much before they file for bankruptcy (the biggest piece of shit loophole ever, but thats a different story...).
Umm, I think the world's worst drivers title goes to England. But that's just from what I've seen on TV, I've never been to England.
As far as the "passing lane" goes, it's a myth. Unless explicitly stated as such, the left lanes are for normal driving. I do agree with you on the schmuck's that don't move over to let you merge. That's annoying. Many other states seem to have either yield or stop signs (in PA at least) on their highway entrances, which explicitly gives highway drivers right-of-way. Merging traffic doesn't have Right-of-way, so technically those of us who wish they would move over are in the wrong anyway. Oh well.:) Don't ask how I know this shit...
What would happen to OPEC countries if the US and Europe stopped importing crude tomorrow? I think this is a reason for the continued importing. I say we start using alternative fuel vehicles *right now* and stop bending over to OPEC, then watch and laugh when the beggars start crying.:)
It seems to me that the UN and all the world governance crap needs to go. Their only true usefulness is to keep the peace between countries, so leave the Security Council in place. Other than that, screw them.
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Actually, Kodak recycles more than 90% of the material in their one-time use cameras. All the plastic and glass is ground down and remanufactured. The only thing they don't recycle themselves is the batteries for the flash, but I think they outsource that to someone else. Kodak and Xerox are both really big into remanufacturing, which is A Good Thing. :)
I have no kids, and never will. Diapers came to mind as something disposable because I work in a place where it seems half the employees should be wearing them. Nothing like being a system admin for a food service operation. All the worst workers, and shitty pay...
My workstation at home has 2 1 gig drives in it, and until I see the need for anything more, thats all that will be in there.
486s are good for a few things, specifically routers. I just gave away 8 30 pin simms to a guy who had a board for them; he's using it as a router for his home LAN. I got some 64 meg EDO simms for them, which didn't work in his motherboard, but work great alongside the pc100 sdram in my Soyo E5HM.
I most likely would have taken those 486s by the dumpster and found some use for them, even if it was just to use as storage space for the LAN, assuming the hard drives still spun up.
The only truely useless hardware for anything other than old time gaming (playing Wolfenstein 3D on my workstation, a p2-233 with 384 megs of ram is just not fun) is 286 and 386 class boards, because they can't run modern OS's (esp. 286's). Who needs a GUI anyway?
What the hell is up with everyone wanting to dispose of perfectly good items? Stuff like diapers should obviously be disposable, but computers? Thats just plain ridiculous. Even if a piece of hardware is totally shot, its got other uses, like hanging on the wall of the server room to remind the working hardware what it will end up being once it breaks. :)
According to this month's America's 1st Freedom (page 61), New York's (state in which I reside) Court of Appeals has "ruled in Hamilton v. Accu-Tek that victims of gun-weilding criminals cannot sue firearms manufacturers for the misuse of a legally manufactured and non-defective product." There goes those ridiculous lawsuits...
And on page 58... "Florida became the 26th state to adopt legislation protecting the firearms industry from reckless lawsuits..." Theres more than half the country saying those lawsuits are retarded...
Britain's violent crime rate since outlawing guns has gone up 68%. The tool used in the crime has nothing to do with the outcome. I'll kill you with my left hand if I have to. Same outcome, very different tools.
The guys over at pimpwar use paypal as a way to donate. I don't know how well it works for them, but I know I've sent them $10 a few times just because the game is fun.
And it will continue to kick ass until they require everyone to use AOL. Hopefully that will never happen.
The whole ports tree is precompiled into packages which you can also download. This takes away the compilation step for morons who have no clue.
Not I, my friend...
Windows for the workstations, cuz dammit, I like games, and I have hardware no one would ever want to write FreeBSD or GNU/Linux drivers for. FreeBSD for the servers, because it's the best tool for the job.
Time to start our own financial company, one that doesn't blow... First National Bank of /. sounds fine. Bank for Nerds, customers that matter... :)
You really should be using rounded floppy/ide/scsi cables inside any cases where heat is a problem. Plycon.com, frozencpu.com and many others have them. Well worth the extra cost.
It's a huge old 486 server case with room for 6 FULL HEIGHT drives (ahh, the days when seagate made 1.7gb scsi2 drives that take up the space of 2 cdroms...), 8 or 9 card slots and ~20 ports for db9/db25 ports. It's got my secondary DNS/IRC server in it now, but I'd gladly trade it for another AT case. I sure don't need all the space for a machine with 2 NICs and a video card. The power supply might not be adequate for your needs, but it is a 350W.
DOCSIS cable "modems" are out, Road Runner is phasing out the old system for the Docsis system now.
Why don't you move to a real state which allows competition for utilities, or write your congressman/senator to change the laws in your own state. Bitching about it here is a waste of time.
I can choose between at least 4 different electric providers in my area, and I would do so if my electric wasn't included in my rent. Same with natural gas too.
Unless your name is Microsoft...
You obviously don't have an account at Pimp War. Turned based games rock.
Not using swap kicks ass and makes windows so much faster (mmm, less disk I/O on startup). I'm running 98SE on a p2-233 with 384 megs, of which about 54 megs is used by windows, so there's plenty for everything else. It's a bitch that Q3a won't run without being able to create space in swap, although there might be an option to override this. I didn't have it installed long enough to check.
Right to work protections suck, they make it even harder for me to fire incompetent scum that was hired before me. I'm glad I'm in NY though, at least I don't have to deal with that annoyance.
You can get a life subscription for TiVo. IIRC, it's about $200-USD.
Who said I don't donate? WSKG and WXXI have both received money/time from me. One can only donate so much before they file for bankruptcy (the biggest piece of shit loophole ever, but thats a different story...).
Umm, I think the world's worst drivers title goes to England. But that's just from what I've seen on TV, I've never been to England.
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As far as the "passing lane" goes, it's a myth. Unless explicitly stated as such, the left lanes are for normal driving.
I do agree with you on the schmuck's that don't move over to let you merge. That's annoying. Many other states seem to have either yield or stop signs (in PA at least) on their highway entrances, which explicitly gives highway drivers right-of-way. Merging traffic doesn't have Right-of-way, so technically those of us who wish they would move over are in the wrong anyway. Oh well.
Don't ask how I know this shit...
What would happen to OPEC countries if the US and Europe stopped importing crude tomorrow? I think this is a reason for the continued importing. I say we start using alternative fuel vehicles *right now* and stop bending over to OPEC, then watch and laugh when the beggars start crying. :)
GM has been manufacturing/marketing Natural Gas vehicles for quite some time. The Sierra NGV rocks.
It seems to me that the UN and all the world governance crap needs to go. Their only true usefulness is to keep the peace between countries, so leave the Security Council in place. Other than that, screw them.
:)
*The UN is bad, mmkay.