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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.....
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:
Two worklights, as idly requested the other day while working on the house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, as I was mining a rich seam of discarded brass plumbing fittings ($1:50 a pound scrap value) a woman asked me if there were any wrought iron railings in the pile I was looking through. I replied that no, there were not, but the guy over there with the Ford Exploder and homemade plywood trailor had a whole load. After overcoming her various stages of incredulity at my apparent omniscience she arranged to offload the railings directly from truck to truck. In return for my handy indexing functionality (something I am known for in other areas) she gave me a starbucks gift card for 5 USD. That counts for this page because I found some free discarded stuff and traded knowledge of it's whereabouts for the card. But, can you still get a drink at starbucks for a paltry 5 USD? I guess I will see.......
Linksys NAT box. Looks to be in good shape, untested as yet. This is pretty surplus so if you need one of these it is yours to play with I would think.
A nice little bar sink, stainless steel complete with water pipe, taps and feeder tubes etc. Missing the snake or soap, though it looks like there was never a snake installed. The sink and taps are in good condition. We are currently looking for a sink but not this type, so this is available in a craigslisty type way.
Update: Sold in a very craigslisty way so no longer available.
Attached to the copper tubing from yesterday we dicovered a water feeder. As luck would have it this is the same model that we have. Ours has had a leaking problem for a long time and even though this one is pretty beat up we may be able to make one good one out of the two. Mmmmm, hybrid devices.
A nice selection of books with enough variety to please everybody. Pic soon.
A Homelite Echo weed whacker. It looked so complete and spiffy that we took it home. After adding fuel and giving it a few cranks it started and ran and whacked weeds. Reason for discard seems to have been that it ran out of fuel. Cool. Pic shows it posed in the neighbour's driveway....
Random Gateway Pentium 3. Again not worth our time to fix up but worth a quick look at the bits. Boring, but here is the summary:
A run of the mill Dell Pentium 3 PC which did not seem to want to boot. Seems in OK shape though, it will be passed on to somebody who has more time for machines this old. First though, a quick look at the HD reveals a happy family lifestyle. Some salient points:
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