Drives! Get Yer Pipin-Hot Drives!
January 18, 2006 8:41pm
Last night, I started going through my gear. Ronnie Numbers™ still has dibs on my 21″ monitors, but I will be looking to get get rid of this other stuff, and more.
So, if you’re into legacy hardware (some funtional), or need the parts for some art project here is some of the stuff I’m dumping:
- 6 low capacity ( ~ < = 1GB ) IDE Hard Drives
- 5 3½” floppy drives
- 1 14″ CRT Monitor, works fine
- 1 15″ CRT Monitor, works fine
- 1 Apple PowerMacintosh 9500/132 with 21″ Monitor and Laser Printer
- 7 Mini to Standard Sized ATX cases
- 1 Dual-Processor Motherboard with 1 proc (PIII, I think)
- A couple of other motherboards w/ or w/o procs
- Several ATX Keyboards
- 1 AT Keyboard
- 3 ATX Power Supplies, untested
- 2 CD-ROM Drives, IDE
Im sure there’s more, but I’m not going into detail. Hit me up if you want to claim something, everything will be gone one way or another by the time I move out of here.
And best of all, it’s all free! Come take it off my hands!
Like MaBell, I got the Ill Communication
January 18, 2006 3:39pm
I was reading this article about how Bellsouth, my beloved and reliable provider of broadband access to my apartment, wants to charge companies extra for using their bandwidth.
I must admit, I do not like where this is going, not one bit. Bill Smith, CTO at BellSouth suggested that Apple So, Computer might be asked to pay a nickel or a dime to insure the complete and rapid transmission of a song via the Internet, which is being used for more and more content-intensive purposes.
Basically, this is giving a higher priority to internet traffic to those who can afford it. The new “mob” of the internet is forming, and their business is still that old cliche of “Importing and Exporting”, but now, it’s packets instead of “da moichendise”.
For example, take Papa Cass™. I’m slowly in the process of setting him up with his site to sell his t-shirts, designs, etc. from. But being an individual, small vendor, he wouldn’t be able to get in the same area of high-bandwidth availablity, due to their proposed new charges and fees.
Now, I know what I am saying can be seen as alarmist and pre-emptory, but it all starts somewhere. If I want a faster line, I’ll pay more for the T-3, the OC-x, etc. I shouldn’t have to pay extra “Priority Routing Fees” to other ISPs.
Are we going to have a ClearChannel of the web, where if Bellsouth doesn’t want me to use another Internet Provider, they might drop the traffic down further in priority or deny it all together?
Are we forgetting the spirit of the internet? Need I remind you that it can be summarised in one word?
I guess so. Well my friends, that word is porn er, I mean, Freedom of Speech.
Well, maybe three words. Perhaps that isn’t the spirit of the ‘net, but it should be.
So, in conclusion: Boo-fuckin-Hoo, BellSouth. I pay you for net access. Apple pays their plethora of providers. Route my packets and stop crying about it. Malware in general and Microsoft Update cause more problems than anything else, anyways. Try and charge me a “packet-fee” and watch me drop you faster than I dropped Cox Cable for phasing out my TV Guide Channel. I’ll do it too. I am that bastard.
