clearing away the chaff

[slipstreamsurfr]

One of the problems with being the resident geek...
the go-to guy when your computer is having a problem....

is that you accumulate a LOT of JUNK!
Things you hold on to because it MIGHT be of use in fixing someone else's computer at some time further down the line... This leads to abandoned towers, boxes of parts, old network cards, video cards, little bitty hard drives... Stuff that hasn't been supported by XP EVER, not to mention Vista.. You can only build so many specific purpose Linux boxes before it just starts to get VERY silly...

Before you know it...
okay, to be honest, after MANY years of this habit....
you start to drown under the chaff you've never let go of....

There will be a person or two on my friends list that knows me personally...
they will be SHOCKED to hear that I have just thrown away/recycled 3 stripped and dead towers...
more little drives than I care to think about...
some gosh awful network and video cards...
there's a box of cables that goes up to the office to be added to THEIR stock of surplus power cords, IDE and Floppy cables.. (yeah, I can't quite throw it all away at the office yet, I've STILL got some ancient machines I have to support)

PLUS!!! I just turned down a box of junk pc parts from another friend of mine on Friday!!
(this stuff was all very old win95/me/98 level stuff that doesn't belong in a current, or even mostly current generation machines)

Progress has been made, more still needs to be done... There's a fine line in holding onto old line classic computers vs everyday run of the mill junk... I believe I'm defining that line now.. we'll see

Comments

[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

hah, i hear yah. i've been rounding up all of the loose parts that have been lying about, and i'm taking them to an electronics recycling event that the local university is holding next month.

[ariel817.livejournal.com]

Good for you!