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.

2006-12-09 Calphalon Lids

Weirdly, two calphalon lids. Often we find the pans without the lids, but today the converse. We now have a huge surplus of lids due to the extra lids you get from doing returns. Calphalon lids anybody? They are nice.....

2006-12-09 Books

A pretty fine pile of books. Assorted novels and literature etc, all very interesting. An interesting combination of cookbooks and weight-loss books, mostly we do not pick these up. Also some really nice art books etc. The Sotheby's wine enclyclopedia we already found a home for. Some pics below:

2006-12-05 Worklights

Two worklights, as idly requested the other day while working on the house.

2006-12-03 HP Pentium 3

HP Pentium 3 800MHz with Windows XP installed and only 32M of ram. Astounding. From the pristine undisturbed state of the monster dust bunnies inside I would say that the 32M of ram was all that was in there the whole time and none had been removed before we got to it. The dust bunnies were the worst I have seen in a while. Needless to say, bearing in mind the memory size, the thing took for ever to boot. Lots of family pics and stuff, a few word docs, kids' homework etc etc etc. iTunes installed with just a few pieces of media, Limewire likewise. This picture was on the HD and is particularly notable in the self referential sense because it shows the HP machine itself that we found the picture on but also the box from the Sony camera that took the picture (as confirmed in the exif headers).

This machine has a new home with a friend of a friend already. We tossed in a 256M ram chip we found seperately. So now the machine is not so very bad and might have another life ahead of it.

2006-11-20 Kitchen Sink

Stainless steel kitchen sink complete with Moen single lever mixer faucet and snake squirter. It looks to be in near perfect condition and came up super shiny after a quick clean. We are looking into a new kitchen sink for ourslves but we want an under-counter mount. Hence this one is straight off to craigslist as the last one was a roaring success there.

Update: Sold after a few hours on craigslist. Fine.

2006-11-20 Fire Extinguisher

A fire extinguisher, of distinctly vintage type. The primary reason this was picked up of course was for scrap brass but it seems pretty special and "period" so we may try to find a rabid fire extinguisher collecter to give us money for it. Ebay or craigslist might assist in this endeavour.

2006-11-20 Art

Some art, details as yet unknown but investigations are is progress by those in a position to know. But is it art? We will see.