Sick of your PC? Why not pulverize it?

Kyoto protocol anyone?: This story shows zdnet up in quite a bad light I think.
Do you know how many litres of water and so on are used making a PC?
Some folks are busy making old PCs available for the third world.
What in the world kind of hate for them would you be displaying by just destroying your perfectly servicable computer instead of giving it to the third world?

Hey another thing you could do is (particularily if it is fanless and quiet) run Puppy Linux from a compact flash plugged into a CF2IDE adaptor board from lin-itx.com

I'm writing this from an old Pentium200 running Puppy Linux off a 64 meg flash card, in total silence!
(no fan, no drive noise).

Come one folks, don't trash things that work.

The story isn't really about this, but the headline is! Is this guy trying to sell more new Dells or something?; Posted by: hipparchus2000 Posted on: 02/17/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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One nit to pick sraduana | 02/16/05

Good catch! Linux User 147560 | 02/16/05

paper docs... linuxoverwindows | 02/19/05

I read this story but osreinstall | 02/17/05

Kyoto protocol anyone? hipparchus2000 | 02/17/05

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