True or False: E-Waste – CNN.com
OK, you recycled paperboard, 100% post consumer waste, soy-milk guzzling (from paper cartons) hippies – here’s one more way you can help out the environment and stick it to “the man”.
Craig Maloney
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I thought you picked up another GB of RAM so you could install Vista…
Even Linux takes much more resources than it used to. In, oh, ’96 ish, i had a 486/25 laptop with 16 MB RAM, 170 MB disk, had it set up for web browsing, but with a local web server, database, EMACS and compiler suite for writing web based database backed web apps. After OS & utilities were installed, there was 70 MB for my stuff. Slackware. Modern Linux does not boot in 16 MB RAM, and few distros install to 170 MB disk. For that matter, this browser i’m using has 288 MB of virtual memory. Much larger than the old 170 MB disk. While we have more functionality, we don’t have THAT much more. There is plenty of fat to trim.
Please put your own oxygen mask on before assisting others.
The reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. The unreasonable man adapts his environment to himself. Therefore all progress is due to unreasonable men.
Button your shirt, your neck-beard is showing. 
Pfft. Real men recycle their PCs by using them as SETI@home slaves forever and ever and ever.
Yeah, watching that little ZX81 trying to push out a SETI unit is kinda like watching an ant try to push over an oak tree: after a while it just stops being entertaining.
I did execute a SETI unit on a 483/33. It only took 27 days. This was in the earlier days of SETI. More recent variants would take longer. Back then, a unit really could run in 16 MB RAM. Since the 486′s are limited to 16 MB RAM, and with tuned Linux kernel, you’re still pushing the limit, the machine tends to thrash rather than compute a more modern unit. RAM is still 10,000 times faster than disk.
Echoes…
- I wonder if it's too soon to post that Coffee House Coders is on Wednesday, so as to get it on @lmorchard's radar.
- Corralary: If you've let your codebase get to the point where developers complain it's formatted wrong, fire your management.
- Managed to set the coffee pot this morning without putting water in it. Got a nice hot pot of nothing this morning for my trouble
- No problem. Sorry the response was late. :) LMK if you want any more recommendations. :)
- voted for "disagree"
While 50% is nothing to sneeze at, in Australia, they’re talking about reducing their footprint by 90%. And, they’ve mostly done the easy things: drive more efficient cars, car pool, insulate the house, use CF light bulbs, and so on. Then it’s time to use one tenth as much resources.
And yet, at least one guy has a house that uses negative energy. Solar panels on the roof power the house, the car, and he sells excess back to the grid.