Re: [LUG] what to do about electronic peripheral proliferation

On 28 August 2014 13:49, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd certainly be interested in some switches for work, we're always expanding and being a charity we tend to take ex corporate kit with open arms :-)

Rob

On 28 August 2014 13:05:51 BST, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 28/08/14 12:30, Egon Spengler wrote:
 Hi. Requesting some advice, if I may.

I definitely sympathise - I reach this point myself every year or two. 

Even though I clean out furiously intermittently I accumulate new kit at 
a terrifying rate, not helped by my routine access to mountains of 
equipment at various jobs. I just gave a car full of fully functional 

server gear to someone else on the list, who took it for use in a local 
school for the kids to play with. It would have been properly disposed 
of (you do realise you can't just take this sort of kit to the tip and 

dump it anymore right? See the European WEEE laws) otherwise, although 
considering the level of the gear - 1U servers with Xeons + ECC RAM, 
etc) I doubt I would have had a problem getting rid of it on other 
places like freecycle, etc.


As it happens, I was very glad it could all go to a new, good home. The 
smaller stuff, such as you have currently, really you can only offer it 
to give away in bulk, or responsibly trash it. Going through individual 

bits will take forever, most of it is genuinely crap to be fair 
(prehistoric laptop fragments? IDE ribbons? Celeron CPUs? All worthless 
I'm afraid) and you probably won't even miss it once it's gone. I never 

do, unless I accidentally get rid of something I genuinely wanted... 
accidentally trashed a Sun Ultra 450 a couple of clean outs ago, which 
I'm still cross about.

Short answer: give it away where possible. (Responsibly) dispose of the 

whole lot otherwise. In one go, and wash your hands of it. You'll feel 
better afterwards.

On that note, anyone want some tatty, but fully functional Zyxel network 
gear? I have stacks of it accumulating magically. Everything from dinky 

routers to 24 port PoE fully managed layer 2/3 switches. It won't be 
ready for a while as this is work stuff so paperwork/stock check stuff 
has to be done first but it will all be free to a good home before long...


Cheers

Sent from my ZX Spectrum

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