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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on April 28, 2003, 10:29:24 pm
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a crapy acer computer and an HP 4L lazer printer, they both work fine, the printer alone is probly worth a couple hundred. but best of all the HD is (probly) filled with all of my (sort of) boss's deepest darkest secrets (or maybe just a bunch of porn),
I might finaly get that fat basturd fired woo hoo!
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DUDE!
All I ever got outta a dumpster was an eight-year-old PowerPC, a CD burner to match, a CO2 tank, and my first love *sigh*.
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:cool: :lol:
Fat bastards in positions of power must be destroyed....
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
DUDE!
All I ever got outta a dumpster was an eight-year-old PowerPC, a CD burner to match, a CO2 tank, and my first love *sigh*.
:wtf:
Stryke, I thought your first love was a dumpster! J/K :D
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Was a joke. Though I suppose if you want to get technical, my first love was the electromagnetic catapult (parts for which were found in, yes, junkyards and dumpsters. Mostly the cooling fans and capacitators, which I ripped out of old power supplies), which I gave up on to drool over the Jackhammer when I realized I'd need a small nuclear power plant to fuel the damn thing.
And I was so hoping the senior prank for this year would involve launching a bus over commencement.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Was a joke. Though I suppose if you want to get technical, my first love was the electromagnetic catapult
you go along well with CP, after all :doubt:
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Oh, shut up. Or I start up with the French jokes again.:D
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I just did a search and the printer is worth $200 easily
though I have no intention of selling it,
I might be able to get $50-75 for the computer and monitor (and the mouse and keyboards and cables)
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personally i'd like to stumble across a large low quality ward-robe, a few smallish oil drums, and a sheet of tarpaulin in a dumpster.
Yes, local raft race is coming up.
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[color=66ff00]Dumpster diving in this country is a non event, everyone in business thinks that you have to physically destroy old hard disks to permanently get rid of data. :|
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$250 worth of computer hardware is quite a find. :yes: I should try sifting around in one of the IMF dumpsters at my dad's workplace sometime...
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Maeg: They're more or less right. If there's lots of corporate espionage out there, it'd be a good plan- some kid's not likely to pull a hard disk out of the junk pile and recover the deleted files, but a pro with the right software can. CIA's been doing it for at least a decade, and some of their equipment leaks out all the time.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Maeg: They're more or less right. If there's lots of corporate espionage out there, it'd be a good plan- some kid's not likely to pull a hard disk out of the junk pile and recover the deleted files, but a pro with the right software can. CIA's been doing it for at least a decade, and some of their equipment leaks out all the time.
[color=66ff00]I was always under the impression that if you ran a disk zero'er (can't think of a better description) about 20 times you destroy any left behind data and the magnetic fingerprint it left. What a bummer. :sigh:
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Well, if you ran it through a pretty powerful electromagnet (or regular magnet, for that matter, though it'd be hard to find one that big), you'd do a job on it, all right, and I'd give up on one that had been ****ed up that bad, but when it comes to company secrets most corporations like to err on the side of caution.
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
:cool: :lol:
Fat bastards in positions of power must be destroyed....
yay ! death to bastards!!!! ayyayayayayay! :p
im sleepy :p
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I'm not going to ask what you were doing in a dumpster behind a meat plant.
*remembers the dumpster scene from Fight Club*
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it doesn't matter, because he doesn't know. he just woke up there.
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:lol:
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Im not going to try to tell you what to do with your free time, nor what i think is a worthwhile investment of said tme. But digging arround in a dumpster is not the best thing to do when you are trying to keep a good social standing. Unless you are a hard core hacker, that is. If not, it's more creepy than cool.
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Ooh, yes, must make sure that you don't lose social standing by being practical.:rolleyes:
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A) No I don't give a damn about my non-existent social standing
B) I work there I was throwing away a bag of trash when I sat what looked like a mini-tower, monitor and miscellaneous peripherals
unfortunately after further examination it seems this was his mother's old crapy 150mhz Pentium clone based computer with a 1.5gb hard drive (lets not forget the 8x CD ROM :lol:), but it's still got a case and a power supply and I can probably sell it for just that though I doubt I'm going to get anything for the monitor, it looks like it was decent for a 15' monitor but everything is fuzzy ether due to it being an old piece of crap or being throughen into a dumpster and getting rained on
but the printer kicks ass, 300dpi, no more unsightly horisontel lines running through everything we print, and it can print out a whole page in about a 1.5 seconds, I don't know what the current standards for printers are (this could be total crap) but it is a major upgrade from what we had before (cannon BJ-200e bout ten years old)
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Printer ain't shabby- it's no graphical printer I don't think (my ancient Panasonic KX-P4420 did about as well before it stopped doing anything not text pretty much at all, and it's been around for years); monitor could probably be fixed, it sounds like the lightguns are misaligned- prob. too far from the screen; computer makes nice scrap. 8x ain't so good, but I'm in the process of selling an 8x burner for around $20 (think of it this way, it's still ****loads cheaper than a new one), so you might be able to get someone who needs a backup CD drive. Rest of the computer- eh, rip out the CPU, plug it into your comp, get a little boost. It's worth it until you can afford a better one. Same with the memory cards, provided they stayed dry.
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Originally posted by Bobboau
unfortunately after further examination it seems this was his mother's old crapy 150mhz Pentium clone based computer with a 1.5gb hard drive (lets not forget the 8x CD ROM :lol:), but it's still got a case and a power supply and I can probably sell it for just that though I doubt I'm going to get anything for the monitor, it looks like it was decent for a 15' monitor but everything is fuzzy ether due to it being an old piece of crap or being throughen into a dumpster and getting rained on
Loonix Box!!!11!!1
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That computer might come in handy for playing the older games that don't run properly on today's machines.
Im not going to try to tell you what to do with your free time, nor what i think is a worthwhile investment of said tme. But digging arround in a dumpster is not the best thing to do when you are trying to keep a good social standing. Unless you are a hard core hacker, that is. If not, it's more creepy than cool.
Actually I would do this quite often too if there were any corporate dumpsters nearby.
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Dude, who needs corporate? Just today I saw a guy throwing a perfectly good stereo system in the trash pile. People dump fully functional **** everywhere. And if you have a real junkyard around, you might never need to order parts again.;7
Well, the last is a bit of a stretch. Most junkyard hardware is in varying degrees of obsolescence, people seem to take out a lot of the really juicy bits before they ditch them (of course, I guess), and some of the stuff's in bad shape. Still, it's free and sometimes it's good, so it's worth a look.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
People dump fully functional **** everywhere.
"Hey, look at his perfectly good new toothbrush that Flanders threw out."