<div dir="ltr">Hacklab.to has junk independence days. Everyone brings their stuff exchange things, and then "junk removal" gets called in.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Toby Thain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toby@telegraphics.com.au" target="_blank">toby@telegraphics.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2015-12-04 3:08 PM, Giles Orr wrote:<br>
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If the term "garbage picking" bothers anyone, mentally transpose it to<br>
"saving the environment" because it really does (if only in a small<br>
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We will end up surviving ONLY through reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair. The current accepted habit of waste and obsolescence will come to a long overdue end.<br>
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way). And it saves you money too. Or possibly makes your significant<br>
other mad at you. But it's all good.<br>
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I also consider Above All to be a good cause: I love that he's there,<br>
and have bought good stuff from him on more than one occasion.<br>
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On 4 December 2015 at 12:15, Doug Lee <<a href="mailto:douglee@vex.net" target="_blank">douglee@vex.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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I don't know of anything specific but know of two people who have found<br>
working core2duo machines in the garbage. I was present for one of them. It<br>
was a Lenovo desktop with working DVD, hard drive and embedded Intel<br>
graphics. It had a corrupted slow windows installation and ran great with a<br>
fresh Linux install, able to play HD video etc. Broken Windows installations<br>
are your friend!! This machine had a core2duo sticker on the outside and the<br>
case opened without tools so was easy to evaluate on a chance encounter.<br>
This appears to be the new normal for garbage picking and these machines are<br>
more than adequate for most normal computing. I am typing this on a core2duo<br>
laptop which can run virtual machines, the latest biggest bloated operating<br>
systems and even a lot of 3d games. I expect it will still be useful in<br>
10-20 years. This one has 8GB of ram and most desktops will probably take<br>
16. Usually they shipped with at least 2GB. If your friend really wants<br>
something, walking around neighbourhoods on garbage day may be very<br>
lucrative. Go forth and garbage pick. The current offerings are future proof<br>
enough for years of computing happiness :-)<br>
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My friend gave his find away to Above All Electronics on the south side of<br>
Bloor east of Palmerston. If your friend can spend a little money, he might<br>
be able to get that or a similar machine there quite cheap. Another friend<br>
in Calgary bought a Dell core2duo laptop at a garage sale for $5.00<br>
Doug<span class=""><br>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, arocker@Vex.Net wrote:<br>
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Does anybody have, or know of, any moderately modern x86 equipment being<br>
dumped?<br>
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A friend needs, at a minimum, a DVD drive and a motherboard capable of<br>
supporting it. The box and a hard drive would be a bonus.<span class=""><br>
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