2007-01-27 iMac Plus firewire

A late first gen iMac in good shape with a LaCie firewire casing containing a fast cd burner. The former owner is an executive with a large music company, in fact he even seems to be some guy in charge of digital privacy for said music company. Oooops! Recently the machine seems to have been used by the young offspring of the family, learning to play chess and suchlike. Continuing our series of self-referential digital archeology, here we have a pic found on the HD, taken with a Kodak EasyShare CX6200:

Extra self-referentiality points for taking a picture of the screen with iPhoto open! Note that in common with many new digital camera owners the first pics they took documented the box the camera came in. How nice!

2007-01-13 Toshiba laptop

A Pentium 4 2Ghz Toshiba. This thing works very well except that the enter key is a little touchy, requiring a good tap to get it to work. The machine was unfortunately almost completely empty, no laughable user data here, move along. Picture of the machine shown here for no particular reason. The apple stickers are a little baffling, maybe they replaced this with an apple?

2007-01-13 Dell laptop

A Pentium 3 600Mhz Dell laptop in somewhat well-used shape. It boots OK with some encouragement and seems to work fine. On it we find:

• Some small sprinklings of porn in two of the users' caches.
• Some iTunes activity, all very boring etc etc.
• A fair few pics taken with an Olympus U710 camera.
• Some small file sharing activity.
• Some homework.
• Lots of google searches for specifics on historical english immigration to the US.
• A nice portfolio snapshot, seemingly indicating that the principal earner of the household gets lots of options.

Two pics shown, illustrating the physical house this household lives in courtesy of local.live and a juvenile female member of it indulging in her favourite high quality beverage with a friend.

2007-01-05 Powerbook

Mac Powerbook 667 Mhz, other specs as yet unknown. I know that the charge board does not work on this but that otherwise it might be fine. I have no power supply for it hence will have to borrow one to find out and test it a bit. Watch this space.

2007-01-02 Shelving

It may seem all very idle when you sit around and muse that in order to clean up one's apartment one needs a serious storage system for all the laptops and stuff lying around, but sometimes fortune smiles on the idle. 3 hours after exactly this type of musing, here we are, a special laptop filing system. It may need a couple of extra shelves but this is a good start.

2006-12-30 Ridged Wagner

A ridged base cast iron Wagner skillet. In nice condition, just needed a quick scrub and a cure. We already have one like this so this is up for grabs if anybody wants it.

2006-12-23 Firewire card

A firewire and USB2 card seemingly somewhat new in the box. Weird. I found it at the bottom of a big box of ethernet cables and such. This may get tossed into the Dell for good measure.

2006-12-23 Dell

Dell 2Ghz Celeron PC with 256M RAM, 30G HD and Windows XP installed. It seemed to have some trouble booting XP but knoppix worked fine. Primary uses for this PC were surfing and digital pics shot with their PENTAX Optio S. Pic shows the keyboard and screen from the machine in its former household. They had two very similar machines. The other was set up for use by a blind family member. This machine may join a certain cpu intensive project, once I have tested its cpu for its suitability for the task.

2006-12-23 CD case selection

A handy dandy CD carry case with lots of CDs inside. Windows ME with key and other such uselessness. The case is available if anybody wants it and the CDs are coasters (i.e. getting tossed).

2006-12-15 E-Machine

EMachines Athlon 1400, missing memory, 40G HD, somewhat dusty inside. Machine works fine with some borrowed memory. Lots of delicious things on the HD:

• 5 users with associated cache directories. Lots of cache hits indicating gaming and sports etc. No, or very little porn. 3 or so users may be juveniles.
• 500 or so iTunes including the following:

       77 Compilations
       28 Black Eyed Peas
       27 Norah Jones
       27 10,000 Maniacs
       25 Michael Tilson Thomas, Philharmonia Orch
       20 Christina Aguilera
       14 'N Sync
       14 Kelly Rowland
       14 Justin Timberlake
       14 John Mayer
       14 Jewel
       14 Counting Crows
       13 Coldplay
       13 Britney Spears
       12 Zero 7
       12 Vince Guaraldi Trio
       12 Sheryl Crow
       12 Seal
       12 George Michael
       12 Dido
       11 Sade
       11 Natalie Merchant
       11 Dave Matthews Band
       10 Sarah McLachlan
       10 Maroon 5
       10 Destiny's Child 

  Lovely. Listening to them now as I write up this page.
• Some 86 downloaded mp3s also, seemingly acquired using Limewire. Shortly before discard somebody had tossed all this stuff in the RECYCLER, and left it there. Including the following variations of some mildy famous chap:

        2 Emenem 
       13 Eminem 
        1 eminem
        1 Eminem Feat Dr.Dre 
        1 Eminiem  

• Also mp3 versions of some of the iTunes user ripped stuff was there also. This indicates I guess that they ripped a bunch of stuff to mp3 then started with iTunes and reripped. All very confusing.
• A few word docs, work and school and such.
• Some evidence of ebanking including scans of cheques etc, including one big one to the IRS.
• Some pics taken with a Canon PowerShot A40.

Pic is one of a series found on the HD that were taken at a wedding. Amidst all the happy people attending there was apparently somebody who felt the need to bring a sickbag from delta airlines in their pocket. That says something about family occasions I guess.

2006-12-09 Netgear

Yet another netgear wireless NAT box thingy. Seemingly OK but we have not actually properly tested it yet. We were able to bring up the management interface and log into it after resetting the thing but have not got it working on an uplink yet.