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Nyken
June 24th, 2009, 04:44 AM
Found this comp that I'm using in the trash behind work -- IBM NetVista with 2.4 GHZ 1GB RAM. It had Windows 2000 on it, but I took it home and cleaned it up and put it back together and installed Ubuntu on it, since I wasn't all that sure I wanted to put it on the computer I already had. Took me all day to figure out how to set up the windows drivers for the wireless card, but finally I'm online with it and it's updating like Jaunty like hell and I'm just happy. God, how many trips from my Mac with files .debs saved on my digital camera I made to get this far LOL YAY!!!!

Sorry, had to sound off on this someplace ;D
Bölvağur
June 24th, 2009, 04:49 AM
it's pretty good finding that computer, not bad specs.
papenpj
June 24th, 2009, 04:50 AM
Im jealous, it much faster and better than my server.

What your plans for it to do?
PurposeOfReason
June 24th, 2009, 04:54 AM
Ubuntu is too bloated, put arch on it. :shifty:

EDIT - The heck we don't have a shifty face smile for?
ugm6hr
June 24th, 2009, 05:50 AM
Glad you made it with the wifi!

Not a bad spec for a trash recovery computer.
Grant A.
June 24th, 2009, 06:11 AM
Last computer I found in the trash was a commodore 64... in 2006. :/


Found this comp that I'm using in the trash behind work

Wait, you're using the computer in the dumpster?
sim-value
June 24th, 2009, 08:23 AM
Ubuntu is too bloated, put arch on it. :shifty:

EDIT - The heck we don't have a shifty face smile for?


"As a discussion on Ubuntuforums gets longer the probability of someone mentioning arch is raised to 1"
^^
Nyken
June 27th, 2009, 08:19 PM
Well it's a lot cheaper to maintain than my other computer and my mac, so it's my new day to day computer. One I get EverQuest running, I'm done with Windows.

LOL @ some of the replies. :D
dragos240
June 27th, 2009, 08:25 PM
Last computer I found in the trash was a commodore 64... in 2006. :/



Wait, you're using the computer in the dumpster?


This is why commas are important.
swoll1980
June 27th, 2009, 09:53 PM
The things that people will throw away is amazing sometimes.

Most recently I've gotten a computer desk, and a TV stand for a big screen dlp style TV, which was perfect for my TV.
init1
June 27th, 2009, 10:17 PM
it's pretty good finding that computer, not bad specs.
Not bad? It's much better than mine.
jenkinbr
June 29th, 2009, 05:27 PM
*wonders how I got subscribed to this thread*

Anyways, That computer beats my computer to shreds (mine would have been a dumpster bomb, too, but the company that pitched it slipped some to the employees (I have a family member who works there).

I despratly want to get a new computer. (wish dumpster-diving was legal im Minnesota).
Swagman
June 29th, 2009, 05:51 PM
Nice find.

Back in..Oooh... Around 1991 my brother found two 750Mb SCSI hard drives in his companies skip.

He asked if could claim them and was told he could. Taking them home he found just a few bad sectors on them.

Sold them for over £1000 each !!
mhgsys
June 29th, 2009, 05:56 PM
Lol, Good job saving that computer from the trash.

I also work on a "once trashed" computer at this moment.

description: CPU
product: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.6.2
slot: Socket-A
size: 1250MHz
capacity: 3GHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 100MHz

People throw lot's of good things in the trash,
Thats how I also found my microwave,my refrigerator, my flatscreen tv /monitor (I don't watch tv) and this computer.

All just needed a new fuse.