[GRLUG] Hardware question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:52 -0500, Benjamin Flanders wrote: 
> What happens to that Dead Pile? 

It helps to keep the building from floating away.  Every time there is a
certain planetary alignment I believe someone gets paid to make it
somewhat smaller.  Of course, leaving some seed for the next pile.

> I happen to have quite a few old
> laptops and desktops that I need to get rid of.  I'd like to do it
> responsibly, yet with as little expense as possible.  Most of my pile
> isn't dead, but just so darn old ...

You can drop off equipment a very little bit at a time at the county
recycle center.  They jump on you if you show up with a truck load, but
so long as it looks like 'residential' disposal you just walk in and
drop it.

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 19:24 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >> I find that far fetched. It's just a collection
> >> of fairly standard parts. But for assembly,
> >> I'm not even sure there's anything in the
> >> system that HP makes.  It probably does
> >> get good quantity discounts on components.
> >
> > Having a large number of PCs at my employer - we do see a lot of units
> > fail at about a year.  The electrolytic capacitors on the motherboards
> > or GPUs pop like a bunch of zits.  Dell will replace the motherboard
> > under warranty and that board will last until the warranty expires.
> > Then the same thing will happen and the machine will get added to the
> > dead-dell pile in the corner of the lab.



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