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Grex > Coop > #232: Taking root access from non participatants | |
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keesan
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response 111 of 126:
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Jul 20 14:40 UTC 2008 |
Someone just passed along to us (thanking us profusely) 30 rack-mount
computers of 750MHz or moare, 512MB, mostly DELL, that they would have had
to pay to recycle otherwise. Some IBMs and others. Do you know anyone
working for a rich business that replaces its computers often?
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glenda
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response 112 of 126:
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Jul 20 20:27 UTC 2008 |
In Ann Arbor, you don't have to pay to recycle computers anymore.
Monitors yes, but not the CPU. Ann Arbor Recycling now takes them and
other electronics for free.
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mcnally
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response 113 of 126:
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Jul 21 01:37 UTC 2008 |
re #110: Do you really mean a dot matrix printer?
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veek
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response 114 of 126:
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Jul 21 07:30 UTC 2008 |
yup, cartridges are less expensive. ditto paper, and I can use the other
side to do rough work.
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keesan
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response 115 of 126:
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Jul 21 12:58 UTC 2008 |
You can get a $7 kit (plus shipping) to reink your ribbon. lasts a lifetime.
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scholar
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response 116 of 126:
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Jul 22 00:14 UTC 2008 |
a man after keesan's heart
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lar
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response 117 of 126:
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Jul 22 03:10 UTC 2008 |
heh, but not really. if he was truly a man after keesan's heart he
would still be using a 286 running dos 6.22
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nharmon
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response 118 of 126:
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Jul 24 19:01 UTC 2008 |
DOS shell???? What extravagence!!!
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aruba
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response 119 of 126:
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Aug 16 16:07 UTC 2008 |
I am coming to this discussion late, but I feel obliged to respond to cross
in #76. Dan says that Grex bought its current hardware by "buying the
cheapest stuff we could", but that's not my memory of it at all. STeve
chose the list of hardware in the spring of 2003, and I set about buying it.
The expenses are listed in the treasurers reports of April through June of
2003, which you can see in coop or at ~aruba/reports/0304.txt ... 0306.txt
I wouldn't say we "spared no expense", and I know Dan had some differences
of opinion with STeve on what to buy (which I didn't hear about until after
we'd already bought the stuff), but it's not fair to say we chose the
cheapest things we could find.
All that said, that was 5 years ago, and even though our memb ership has
dwindled we have more money now than then (thanks to our move to
colocation). I don't thoroughly understand the technical issues, but it's
my understanding that it's expensive to add the remote-access capability
we need to the current machine, because most people who need that buy new
machines that have it built in. So I support spending some of our money
on a new machine.
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cross
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response 120 of 126:
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Aug 16 16:13 UTC 2008 |
(My recollection was that we did NOT buy hardware RAID or ECC memory in order
to save money. Actually, the ECC thing might have been for performance, which
I don't quite understand, but then, there's a lot that I don't quite
understand. The RAID thing, as well as a rack-mount case, were certainly cost
related.)
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keesan
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response 121 of 126:
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Aug 16 17:45 UTC 2008 |
We have several no-longer-new rackmount DELLs (1550, 1650) with RAID
and SMP capabilities - would grex want any of those? Also ECC RAM
PC133 512MB.
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cross
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response 122 of 126:
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Aug 16 18:53 UTC 2008 |
No, I don't think that those would be particularly useful. But thanks anyway!
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keesan
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response 123 of 126:
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Aug 16 21:35 UTC 2008 |
Would anyone else reading this like one or more? We already recycled or gave
away at least half of the original total.
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nhardon
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response 124 of 126:
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Aug 19 14:51 UTC 2008 |
Ask cross about the penis extension that he got for lar.
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lar
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response 125 of 126:
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Aug 20 02:27 UTC 2008 |
I haven't received it yet,is it coming soon?
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tod
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response 126 of 126:
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Aug 25 19:33 UTC 2008 |
Yes, stand still
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