<div dir="ltr">Jim, this is another one of your bad suggestions.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@well.com" target="_blank">jim@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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� � Seems to me if you dismantle things<br>
and donate the working parts (such as<br>
power supplies, expansion cards, etc,<br>
they may have value for hackers looking<br>
to rebuild or to create stuff.<br>
� � My view is that it's better to have<br>
too much stuff and occasionally run<br>
neglected stuff to recycling. There<br>
are some of us who are willing to do<br>
the dump runs and pay the fees out of<br>
our pockets, like purchasing toilet<br>
paper, soap, and other on-going costs.<br>
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On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 03:15 -0800, Al Sweigart wrote:<br>
> We appreciate your intent, but if the computers don't turn on, then<br>
> they'll just sit around for months until we throw them away (and<br>
> e-waste disposal is not free). Please don't donate broken stuff.<br>
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> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Jean-Luc Picard<br>
> <<a href="mailto:atari2600a@gmail.com">atari2600a@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> � � � � As usual, I'm attempting to pay an equivalent of an associate<br>
> � � � � membership fee w/ donations from home or work. �This is<br>
> � � � � actually the first time I've announced that I do this at all<br>
> � � � � on the lists but here I am doing it anyway.<br>
><br>
> � � � � Dell desktop -- runs XP, needs new CPU fan but should boot<br>
> � � � � right up otherwise. �Do the Administrator trick or run<br>
> � � � � ophcrack to get in.<br>
> � � � � Dell laptop -- annoying as hell to get to the internals.<br>
> � � � � �Needs new HDD, chips reflowed.<br>
> � � � � Compaq laptop -- Won't turn on. �I tried popping both<br>
> � � � � batteries & draining the caps. �Afterwards I tore out the HDD<br>
> � � � � for a secure destruction of the data as instructed by my<br>
> � � � � client.<br>
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> � � � � All this should come out to about $20 in salvageable parts<br>
> � � � � (DIMMS, fans, HDD's, etc). � Expect to hear from me in another<br>
> � � � � month, when I'll probably have more stuff to donate.<br>
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> � � � � FYI: �my past donations have been more functional; �mostly<br>
> � � � � SO-DIMMS, broken ipods w/ guttable HDD's, etc. �You know,<br>
> � � � � things that don't last a week in Noisebridge.<br>
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