Comments on: Sexy Green Geek: Part 2 – Reuse

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By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Who cares what the computer the RAM is going into is worth on the current market? If it still works, use it! As far as I am concerned, a 10 year old computer has plenty of life left in it, particularly if you've got Damn Small Linux. Stop talking money. It's not about money. It's about not buying new stuff because new stuff means more mining of raw materials, more toxic chemicals, and more waste overall.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Who cares what the computer the RAM is going into is worth on the current market? If it still works, use it! As far as I am concerned, a 10 year old computer has plenty of life left in it, particularly if you’ve got Damn Small Linux. Stop talking money. It’s not about money. It’s about not buying new stuff because new stuff means more mining of raw materials, more toxic chemicals, and more waste overall.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:00 +0000

Some good ideas, some wishful thinking.

Have you tried to give away a CRT lately? I have, no one wants them. Thrift store don't take them. I do have a local place that pays $.14 a pound for electronics, that's where all the stuff I accumulate goes. I am a freelance geek, so I accumulate literally tons of old equipment. I actually had to look at the date for this article, I guess maybe at the end of 2008 you could give one away if you tried hard enough.

$20 for 128mb of PC100? Dude, the computer you are putting that in isn't worth $20. I have a whole box of the crap I'll sell you for $10 a stick, and I'd still be ripping you off.

Using an old PC for a router at home is about the worst idea I've heard yet. In this part of the country I could buy a new router for what it costs to run an old PC for 5 months. Give it to a kid or sell it as scrap.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:00 +0000

Some good ideas, some wishful thinking.

Have you tried to give away a CRT lately? I have, no one wants them. Thrift store don’t take them. I do have a local place that pays $.14 a pound for electronics, that’s where all the stuff I accumulate goes. I am a freelance geek, so I accumulate literally tons of old equipment. I actually had to look at the date for this article, I guess maybe at the end of 2008 you could give one away if you tried hard enough.

$20 for 128mb of PC100? Dude, the computer you are putting that in isn’t worth $20. I have a whole box of the crap I’ll sell you for $10 a stick, and I’d still be ripping you off.

Using an old PC for a router at home is about the worst idea I’ve heard yet. In this part of the country I could buy a new router for what it costs to run an old PC for 5 months. Give it to a kid or sell it as scrap.

By: Tino

Tino — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:16:00 +0000

I love the article "Updating the old to make it new". In my case, I manage 2 PCs, a powerful Core2Duo and a P4. Both use Linux distros, the powerful one uses opensuse 11.0 and the other one runs with Knoppix 5.1.1., and it runs excellent. And it's totally right that, instead of throwing old PCs to trash, you can power it again with some distros like Puppy Linux, and in the case of the slowest machines, DSL Linux. GNU/Linux distros have nothing to envy other OSs.

By: Tino

Tino — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:16:00 +0000

I love the article “Updating the old to make it new”. In my case, I manage 2 PCs, a powerful Core2Duo and a P4. Both use Linux distros, the powerful one uses opensuse 11.0 and the other one runs with Knoppix 5.1.1., and it runs excellent. And it’s totally right that, instead of throwing old PCs to trash, you can power it again with some distros like Puppy Linux, and in the case of the slowest machines, DSL Linux. GNU/Linux distros have nothing to envy other OSs.

By: Tino

Tino — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:16:00 +0000

By: Tino

Tino — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:16:00 +0000

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Tino — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:16:00 +0000

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:22:00 +0000

Newer computers aren't necessarily more efficient. It always depends on exactly what the hardware is. But yeah, I've wondered before if running a Pentium 2 with all that power consumption does worse than throwing it away.