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## again the garbage can

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### again the garbage can

by nadir » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:36 pm

Today i found a PC in the garbage.
Celeron 1.3Gh, 512 of RAM, one harddisk with 40 Gigs, one with 20Gigs.
I checked the installed WindowsXP Pro, and it runs ok (with default settings, antivirus running, etc).
I booted antiX as a liveCD, and it works good (First i was astonished it was more slow than XP, then realized that i am running a liveCD).
From the software it looks as if the PC hasn't been booted in ages (firefox version 2.0, etc).
People here are strange. I mean: They could at least give it to someone in the need of a PC. While most Germans are rather wealthy, there still are many in the need of the most basic things. There are shops where you could give such a device (you could call them and they would come and catch it). No, it must be the garbage.
I am happy, of course. Not that i would need another PC ... but it won't hurt.
God forbit someone wipes his hard-disks before he puts his hard-disks on the street. .
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: again the garbage can

by nadir » Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:34 pm

And again the garbage can, the next PC:
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1000.015
500MB of RAM
I have not found a hard-disk yet (fdisk or gparted). Smart move. I got enough (small ones, but for fooling around they are ok. All from the garbage).
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: again the garbage can

by meandean » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:49 pm

> nadir wrote:People here are strange. I mean: They could at least give it to someone in the need of a PC. While most Germans are rather wealthy, there still are many in the need of the most basic things. There are shops where you could give such a device (you could call them and they would come and catch it). No, it must be the garbage.

people everywhere are strange
buy it, buy the newer model, throw out the old, has a scratch so throw it out and get a new one...etc...
wasteful consumerism is the fashion
storing it is almost as bad, since you bought it you will keep it in the closet even if you do not need it because you think you may need it one day...which you never do....even if you could find it in all that other junk you may need one day....so they make more...that end up in someones closet....and on and on....
good rant subject

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### Re: again the garbage can

by nadir » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:51 pm

That's right, storing it is just as silly. Right now i got 4 PC's in the kitchen and 5 in the living room (2 being raspberries, so let's make it 3).
The server just runs, so that is no work.
Keeping the laptop and the main PC up to date, backed up and sync is enough work for me.
If i had one further PC to do some fun-stuff, it would be more than enough (That would be 4 PCs).
I got the space, so i just keep them. Every other day i broke a few, then put them on the garbage myself.
...
Right now i use an 8 Gig hard-disk to install plan9, the disk plugged in the open box, in the internal hard-disks antiX and dragora are installed (only to have something installed). The PC i found when starting this thread.
I got to say: that is a weird, but very interesting one.
Distributed operating system. Huh? Installation notes tell me that you can run snapshots of the filesystem too (yesterday(8). I doubt i will ever get the head into it, but if yes it would be cool (and sure not butnuts to be found there ...).
If someone is really bored i can recommend it.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: again the garbage can

by nadir » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:55 pm

Oh, and a dude i know, he just finished his IT studies, bought himself a new tablet-laptop one size fits all.
He showed it to me.
I thought: You can do nothing. Now you still can do nothing. What has changed?
(He really knows nothing, i swear it. It's shocking. He is speaking about a Debian Server edition all the time. Me says: Huh? What server. Him says: A server. Me says: But what server: ftp, web-server, ssh, git, X, what? He says: I don't know Linux that well, but i know Windows very well. Me: foam at mouth. ).
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