January 09, 2006

Computers!

My living room is filled with old, dead computers, boxes for old, dead computers, monitors, boxes for other things, piles of books and magazines .

In order to give myself a feeling of productivity without having to use my brain too much (Brain already tired. Ugh.), I decided to add to the collection. I still have yet more monitors, boxes, and dead technology in the sitting room closet, after all, and why not make a clean sweep? Or, really, a dusty, coughing sweep.

Now the living room is filled with even more boxes and old electronics. Too many boxes to fit in the supercan, so I'll have to dispose of them over a few weeks. The computers and so on will go to the recycling center where they will dispose of them safely.

While I was rearranging all the technology, I plugged the quite nice speakers which came with my new system into my old machine which Oz uses. Now he can listen to Wait Wait . Don't Tell Me! whenever he wants. I also decided to see if I could improve the machine's performance. The hard drive is thrashing big time and, unsurprisingly, the problem turned out to be fragmentation. That partition is also too full to defrag. Still being productive, I pulled out the ancient Partition Magic floppy to rearrange the empty space on that hard disk and . the floppy is no good anymore.

I guess the next time I'm feeling productive, I'll start researching partition management utilities.

251 words | January 9, 2006 11:14 PM | Wired
Comments

So does the recycling center take the computers for free? Or does it charge. I'm thinking all those systems down in my basement are going to be a liability some day. Hmmmm. Guess I won't ever move.

Posted by: Derek at January 14, 2006 03:03 PM

It's been a while since I checked their terms online, but as I recall they take computers at no charge, wipe the hard drives, and disassemble everything. They charge $30 or so to dispose of monitors because of the extra work involved in dealing with the lead. This particular facility is operated by the city.

I guess I'm lucky I'm not overburdened with storage space. As it is, I have to make the time to drive down to the port and find the recycling center. That's a bit of a liability, but then I'm looking for productive ways to procrastinate these days.

Posted by: Nee-chama at January 14, 2006 03:15 PM