I have an old desktop that I want to get rid of (got a new laptop). Does anyone know the best (easiest) way to dispose of it, either for profit or good karma?
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Juliebird - Sep 13, 2007 1:30:28 pm PDT #2747 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Steph L. - Sep 13, 2007 2:14:05 pm PDT #2748 of 25496
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Juliebird, if you're willing to donate it, try Googling "computer donation" + [your city]. I'm guessing a bunch of charitable organizations will turn up.
We have a handful of such organizations that accept donations of old computers and fix them up for inner-city schools, etc. And/or the Vo-Tech students get to work on them, and THEN they go to the inner-city schools. It's a win-win.
meara - Sep 13, 2007 2:31:53 pm PDT #2749 of 25496
I've been trying to access the Seattle bus map for days, and it never works for me--the pages may partly load, but certainly not fully. Can anyone else get here or is it an issue with my computer/wireless? (Note: other websites are JUST FINE). If it is my issue...wtf?
Juliebird - Sep 13, 2007 2:47:01 pm PDT #2750 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Thanks, Steph, I really can't bring myself to bother with trying to sell it.
Juliebird - Sep 13, 2007 2:47:38 pm PDT #2751 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
meara, webpage came up for me fine, and I'm on wireless.
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2007 2:58:12 pm PDT #2752 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Works fine for me. I'm mystified why the loading fails partway through.
You could try clearing your cache and see if that helps....
meara - Sep 13, 2007 7:17:55 pm PDT #2753 of 25496
It works for everyone but me? Damn. I tried clearing the cache just now too (um, you mean just hit the "clear cache" button under preferences in Firefox, right? There's nothign more complex than that?)
meara - Sep 14, 2007 8:24:32 am PDT #2754 of 25496
Was still unable to fully load pages of the Seattle bus stuff....apparently it's my internet connection, rather than my computer--I just surfed to a neighbor's open WiFi, and downloaded everything Just Fine.
So, WTF is up with my internet, yo? Why would it not work for that one site/domain? Everything else seems to load fine--b.org, LJ, NYtimes, etc.
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2007 8:28:24 am PDT #2755 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I dunno.
I'm not the web design expert, but I looked at the code and properties of that page and nothing stuck out as particularly strange.
One thing that occurred to me - you know how some pages take forever to load because some ad server is slow? Maybe there's some graphic or somesuch that got blocked by your ISP?
Just a guess.
Mark Eddy - Sep 14, 2007 9:02:59 pm PDT #2756 of 25496
Here I am
meara—I don't know what the odds are that the same thing is happening to you that just happened to me, but I went through a week or two where I thought maybe the internets were slowing down. Certain web sites would take forever to load. But then large files would download speedily. Then one day I came home to find my Airport Express was floating belly up. The light was off and no one was home. Turns out it's a thing. My express was indeed within the range of serial numbers mentioned in the page just linked. I bought a new Express and the internets are once more working at peak capacity. Except when Safari randomly freezes for 30 seconds or more . . .