[TriLUG] giveaways

[Peter Neilson]

On 12/06/2010 11:03 AM, bidwell wrote:

> They've found a home...
> Matt

Cheap guy that I am, I got most of my computers at the dump. My wife's 
Linux box, for instance, is a Compaq Pentium from about 13 years ago. 
Folks take a virusasiated machine and drop it at the "convenience 
center" for recycling. I take it home, and presto, Ubuntu!

The dump has now stopped private recycling of computers, because they 
have a contract with some outfit that mines them for gold, or something. 
So if I want more ultra-cheap ones I'll have to look elsewhere.

My wife's Christmas would probably be complete if her computer was only 
5 or 8 years old. (Or if I got her a tractor.) She complains about the 
speed occasionally, and it's not always because some remote web server 
is unresponsive.

Anybody getting a new machine for Christmas and wants the old one to go 
to a good home? We are responsible, and feed our computers nothing but 
100% recycled electrons.