Hi Folks,
Does anyone have suggestions for disposing usefully (i.e. not simply taking it to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre) of assorted old computer kit?
(a few monitors, vidoe cards, multiport serial card, ... )
Most if not all works, in some cases with a little encouragement. So maybe someone somewhere could find a use for it.
Ideally within reasonable reach of the Ely-Downham axis.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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On Sunday 29 August 2004 9:41 pm, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have suggestions for disposing usefully (i.e. not simply taking it to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre) of assorted old computer kit?
Isn't taking it to the tip disposing of it usefully....
A lot of the guys that work at those places are on a peppercorn wage, they seem to be allowed to supplement that income by selling stuff that looks like it works (or can be fixed). Usually they have a little place for bits like that near their hut.
Generally you are stopped from dumping kit like that and they place it in this area....hopefully somebody will come along who has a use for it and pay a nominal amount.
When I was disposing of some surplus kit (all broken) a while ago I spent some time asking anybody who would listen if they wanted free kit to play with.
No interest.
Yet I put the whole lot in a skip outside the office a week later...it was emptied overnight (and not by the skip company) The only computer related kit that was left by the morning was a jurassic QMS laserprinter (that I guess was too heavy for anybody to drag away)
So my tip is simple (it relies on you living somewhere with decent foot traffic)...leave the kit outside your house in plain view..it won't stay there more than 2 days. *grin*
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:41:47PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Does anyone have suggestions for disposing usefully (i.e. not simply taking it to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre) of assorted old computer kit?
<repost due to brain failure>
Offer it to people on this list if they collect it, especially if it works nicely with Linux. I am always on the lookout for a couple of bits of kit which may not seem very useful.
Or
Ebay and make some money from it.
Adam
Does anyone have suggestions for disposing usefully (i.e. not simply taking it to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre) of assorted old computer kit?
There should be is a charity Linux shop, where people can just drop old kit off, and other people can come and buy it for 50p, lol. I thought about doing that when I was at uni... taking all the uni's old stuff that they were chucking in the skips, making working machines out of them, and selling them to CS students. Most people were always looking for a little machine they could try Linux on.
PS: if the collection of pieces includes any PCI video cards, or ethernet cards and you just want to give them to a good home, then I'll be happy to be that home, lol
Duncan Sample
I have recently received probes on port 33270 (trinity v3) reported by my firewall Firestarter, from various URLs, which is apparently the trinity v3 DDOS trojan which is specific to linux boxes and was found in the wild back in 2000. Shields up reports the port is closed so presumably I am safe but as I have not forwrded this port to null space my system responds that the port is present.
Is this common? Do I need to do anything about it? Are there others I should know about/do something about?
Ian
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 21:55, Ian bell wrote:
I have recently received probes on port 33270 (trinity v3) reported by my firewall Firestarter, from various URLs, which is apparently the trinity v3 DDOS trojan which is specific to linux boxes and was found in the wild back in 2000. Shields up reports the port is closed so presumably I am safe but as I have not forwrded this port to null space my system responds that the port is present.
Is this common? Do I need to do anything about it? Are there others I should know about/do something about?
Ian
You should be dropping the packets (ie not responding at all) for any ports you don't want to communicate on. Keeping a low profile doesn't help you evade other humans intent on harm, but it helps you evade bot-nets and the like.
Matt
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