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An alienware PC, minus the HD. It is only an athlon 1GHz but seems to work fine. Somebody will want it for the case I would think, these things are handy if you need to pack loads of crud into a machine. They have loads of drive bays and largeish power supplies and other such features. They are rather large and ugly though.
The Tivo boots fine, batteries in the remote are good, everything is happy. The selection on the HD is the sort of thing that people really do not need a Tivo for. Apologies for the super hokey analogue hole capture, but I currently do not have a TV capture card installed in any computing machinary at the required locale, and this TV is the best I could scrounge up to use as a display with the Tivo. Honestly. The Tivo has the lifetime subscrption on it. Spiffy.
The replay does not seem to boot. The batteries and the battery compartment cover were missing from the remote. It will be fiddled with. Keep wtaching this space. Both of them needed a good cleaning, there was all sorts of fluff inside. Yes we violated the warranty on the replay in order to do this but the Tivo seemed to have no little stickers informing us of this.
Somebody really went to town and bought both a Tivo S2 and Replay. Then, some time later they apparently tossed both of them. Investigation will proceed into the gems of television culture left behind on the HDs. Both remotes are present, as shown in the pic. Tivo is only the 80G model, not sure abnout the Replay's HD size. For now, a pic, watch this space for more details later.
A set of fancy logitech surround sound speakers and suchlike. All very fancy and of little or no use for us but again exactly what a friend wanted. Straight into the arms of a happy new owner.
A fancy looking HP printer. Guy who tossed it said it worked fine so figured it was worth a look. Tests out fine, ink is low but all the vaious modes of operation seem to work.
Found at the same time but not related I think is some printer ink new in the box. One in date and one expired. Ebay for the good one.
An acquaintance asked me, "Have a you a junky machine I could put OpenBSD on to make a home firewall?". Off we went looking for such a device and we found a nice Pentium 3 Dell PC in small form factor. I loaded him up with lots of spare ethernet cards and a extra partial machine or two for even more spares and hopefully he is now firewalling away.
A firewire enclosure that looks like it was made to appeal to 1st gen iMac users. Really ugly. But that is OK because again it was just what somebody wanted, now hopefully being used by its new owner.
Some bubbles stuff, mysteriously abandoned but fully functional. Great for offspring entertainment purposes.
Graco 3-way pack and play, almost new, with changing table, net cover, canopy etc etc. Again, super fancy example of its type, almost new but no use to us. Already sold.
Combi dual stroller in almost new condition, a very recent model, if not still a current model. We never knew these things came with so many features:
This thing has more features and special thingies than our cars. No way we need all that stuff or any dual so off this goes to craigslist.
Dell Pentium 4 1.7Ghz PC with 256M RAM and a 40G HD. Has the funky paired memory with blanks required for unused slots. Bit of a pain. Machine had Windows XP install and hung for no real reason late in boot process, seemingly just prior to login. Eh, who cares, Knoppix is the answer. (But then also note that for some rather large set of computing machinary related questions or problems, Knoppix is the answer). Points to note on contents of HD:
Pic shows what might be the family dog winking with one eye and getting redeye with the other. Maybe it knew it was destined to have this picture shown on the interwebs??
Compaq Athlon 1.3GHz with 500M RAM and 75G HD. Has a whole family's worth of users on it. Yum, delicious found data. Machine bluescreened on boot and seems to have io errors on the disk. But then also the main 71G partition is absolutely stuffed full, zero bytes available. Highlights:
Friend (10:00:07 AM): yo
User (10:00:09 AM): yo
User (10:00:11 AM): what up killa
Friend (10:00:15 AM): nm u
User (10:00:19 AM): nm'
Friend (10:00:37 AM): you were supposed to call me yesterday douche bag
User (10:00:48 AM): i know cocksucker
User (10:00:54 AM): if i had something to tell you yet, i would have
Friend (10:01:13 AM): what about the summer shit
Friend (10:01:18 AM): send me an email
User (10:01:50 AM): oh yeah
User (10:01:55 AM): aight, i'll get on it
User (10:02:00 AM): those things are hard to find
Friend (10:02:20 AM): wha d o you mean
User (10:02:58 AM): like, it's hard to find good college
programs that aren't like all work for five weeks
Friend (10:03:13 AM): oh yeah
Friend (10:03:26 AM): is it 5 weeks
User (10:03:53 AM): i dont think so, how long do you want to go for
User (10:03:54 AM): about
Friend (10:04:30 AM): i dunno whatever
Friend (10:04:43 AM): not really long like 7 weeks though
Friend (10:05:02 AM): are there choices
User (10:05:26 AM): yeah, but im still lookingh
User (10:05:34 AM): i'll email you all the choices by tonight
Friend (10:06:22 AM): ok ggt
Friend signed off at 10:06:24 AM.
Thus do the high-flyers of tomorrow spend their time today.
389 Compilations
92
79 Outkast
74 The Notorious B.I.G_
71 Dave Matthews Band
40 Van Morrison
38 Bruce Springsteen
34 DMX
28 Creedence Clearwater Revival
27 The Offspring
24 Dropkick Murphys
22 The Beastie Boys
20 Bob Dylan
19 The Jam
18 Green Day
17 Sublime
17 Jimi Hendrix
16 LWL
16 Jerky Boys
16 Bob Marley
15 Paul Weller
15 Chili Peppers
15 Blink-182
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers
14 NaS
14 Metallica
14 J-Kwon
14 Jay-Z
13 Pearl Jam
13 Lit
13 John Mayer
13 Incubus
13 Guns N' Roses
13 Bob Marley & The Wailers
13 Black Eyed Peas
13 Barenaked Ladies
13 Alien Ant Farm
12 Will Smith
12 Nirvana
12 New Found Glory
12 Midtown
12 Matchbox Twenty
11 The Strokes
11 The Streets
11 Death Cab For Cutie
11 Counting Crows
10 Jojo
10 Franz Ferdinand Unknown art of unknown provenance. It has been donated to somebody who may appreciate it.
A wine rack made from that modular wireframe shelving system whose name currently eludes me. It is complete with all the little plastic collets required fopr assembly (in the a tupperware box!), but I think it has never been assembled. Useful for a friend or a stranger via craiglist I suppose, we have no need for a wine rack.
Update: Traded to a wine-store owner for some fine wine but we kept the tupperware.
A pile of faintly interesting books. The salacious exposé into the secret ways and workings of tools is of interest to certain relatives who collect hand tools and the Bell System book is of interest generally, because all old Bell System stuff is cool.
A Delta compound mitre saw in rather nice condition. It is not the most recent type, which I think is a good thing as it feels pretty solid. It runs nice and smoothly of course and the hinge-down action is good. The blade is carbide tipped and fine for good number of cuts. This will be pressed into service in place of the previous one that had some issues.
Most of a Dell Pentium 4 PC. No HD, cpu or memory. I have one exactly like this that has a bad power supply, hence this will result in one working machine plus a spare motherboard. Fine and dandy.
US Army Survival Manual reprint in OK condition. How useful. We may keep this as it has some nice plant guides and stuff in the back.
A fancy first 13 states special state quarter presentation pack, issued by the US Mint and the NARA. Hence this is technically New Old Stock coinage. This is of course useful for the fact that it contains 26 25 cent pieces, handy for toll money we think! Though maybe there is somehow more value in preserving the presentation in its entirety......
We are still faintly perplexed by the fact that this ended up in the trash. Who tossed this and what was their thought process? Answers on a postcard....
A lightweight jogging stroller in good condition. After some air in the tyres it is all ready and good to go, go on craigslist that is. The tyres are almost not worn at all, slight rust showing on some bolts.
A rather nice ornate cast iron steam radiator in OK shape. It has that nasty "heat transfer" paint on it that inspires so many arguments. Not sure if we will use this one or pass it on to our period--piece-o-phile neighbours.
Two micron 1GHz or so Pentium 3 machines with Windows 2000 and Windows NT installed. The NT machine was almost totally empty (wiped?) and the Windows 2000 machine empty except for TurboTax usage and some evidence of moron grade web surfing (espn, weightwatchers, jrcigars, pgaofamerica being represented in the cookies). Courtesy of the tax records we have some detailed information on the people in question but they are just too boring for any further analysis. Not even any cool pics on the HD, no media, nothing. So much for this alleged digital media revolution we hear so much about.
A Sportrunner jogging style stroller that folds up pretty small for it's style. It runs well and is in OK shape. It works OK, unlike most strollers, it is possible to push it without kicking the rear of it all the time and the handle is at a reasonable height (though not quite high enough). It has a label written in hebrew on it so I am guess this is a super spiffy grey market model. Fine and dandy, it even came with a hat for very young offspring and a full bottle of spray-on sunscreen. The only thing really wrong with it was that the tyres needed a quick squirt of air, which of course promptly got.
A nice Allclad skillet. It has a stainless steel interior lining in the aluminium main part. It is in very good condition. Should check on warranty availabilities on these, but meantime this one may be available.
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!
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?
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
EMachines Athlon 1400, missing memory, 40G HD, somewhat dusty inside. Machine works fine with some borrowed memory. Lots of delicious things on the HD:
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.
2 Emenem
13 Eminem
1 eminem
1 Eminem Feat Dr.Dre
1 Eminiem 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.
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.
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.....
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