[Noisebridge-discuss] New donations!

[Al Sweigart]

Jim, this is another one of your bad suggestions.


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

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