[Noisebridge-discuss] maybe something else we don't want in the space

[jim]

ACCRC takes CRTs gladly, at least they did 
a couple of months ago. 

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:09 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:47AM -0700, grey wrote:
> > So we've talked about not having CRT's donated, which I think is a
> > great idea.  But I've also been seeing a bunch of 10/100 hubs showing
> > up.  I don't know about the rest of you guys, but these things were
> > seriously out of date a decade ago, so unless someone is planning to
> > strip the tiny linklight LED's off them for projects I'd kind of
> > rather not see anything network gear like this showing up.
> 
> The strong distinction with CRTs is, it *costs* money to dispose of
> them.  No matter how many 10baseT hubs we accumulate, we can drop them
> off at ACCRC / Green Citizen for free.  Whereas, CRTs are $5 or more per
> tube to dispose of properly.
> 
> The great thing about cheapo network hardware is that it draws very
> little current.  I'm uber pleased we got that managed Cisco 100baseT
> switch, but it draws 32W of the 70W total for the networking closet
> (Soekris + 100baseT switch + WRT54G + Ruckus + Fonera VoIP = 40W).
> 
> -andy
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