{"id":5778,"date":"2010-08-28T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2010-09-04T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T00:17:01","slug":"old-computers-new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/old-computers-new-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"old computers, new computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a bit of a clear-out yesterday. I dropped off<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one Sempron-based PC<\/li>\n<li>an ancient eMac<\/li>\n<li>a built-like-a-tank Samsung laser printer<\/li>\n<li>two monitors: one LCD, one flatscreen<\/li>\n<li>two mini-itx boxen of undetermined operation<\/li>\n<li>about six external USB drives<\/li>\n<li>a DVD player with VGA output<\/li>\n<li>a box of stuff, including various network thingies, an NSLU-2 and a KVM switch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>at <a title=\"desc\" href=\"http:\/\/freegeektoronto.org\/\">Free Geek Toronto<\/a>. I&#8217;d heard about them from Colin at Mappy Hour, the monthly(ish) <a title=\"OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> event. They have a very neat warehouse, and are definitely doing the right thing in getting surplus electronics either to people who need them, or properly recycled. On the (lengthy &#8211; 2 hours from the Junction to home, grr) drive back, I even heard a tiny CBC radio spot about them. Shame that the announcer almost said &#8220;old electronics crap&#8221; instead of &#8220;old electronics gear&#8221;, though &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I just built a new linux box to replace a bunch of the stuff I just threw out. It&#8217;s a small and quiet <a title=\"Newegg.ca - MSI 6676-003BUS Intel Atom D510 (1.66GHz, dual-core) Intel Socket BGA559 Intel NM10 ATI Radeon HD 4330 1 x HDMI Nettop Barebone with ODD Drive Bay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.ca\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167042&amp;cm_re=MSI-_-56-167-042-_-Product\">MSI 6676-003BUS<\/a> with a fanless Atom 510 processor. It plugs straight into the HDMI of the TV, and remote work is done with VLC or SSH. To cut down clutter, I&#8217;m using a cheapo <a title=\"desc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/en-my\/441\/3616?WT.z_sp=Image\">Logitech\u00c2\u00ae Cordless MediaBoard Pro for PLAYSTATION\u00c2\u00ae3<\/a>, which works just fine as a keyboard and mouse with a generic $10 bluetooth USB adaptor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a bit of a clear-out yesterday. I dropped off one Sempron-based PC an ancient eMac a built-like-a-tank Samsung laser printer two monitors: one LCD, one flatscreen two mini-itx boxen of undetermined operation about six external USB drives a DVD player with VGA output a box of stuff, including various network thingies, an NSLU-2 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[823,2202,1321,43],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-computer","tag-freegeek","tag-recycling","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5787,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}