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GilliC
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What to do with old computers?
We're in the process of moving into our smaller apartment, and I think we really need to get rid of some of the old computers that we don't use anymore. I think we'll have space in the second bedroom (aka server room) for most of them, but we'll probably need to get rid of one or two.
We have two old SparcStations, and we'll probably get rid of one. However, the nostalgia factor keeps us from wanting to just junk it. Does anyone have any creative ideas for turning it into useful furniture (especially the massive Sun monitors)?
Also, for old computer equipment that can't be donated (busted drives, CRT monitors, etc), how do you guarantee that the parts are being recycled properly?
Re: What to do with old computers?
I don't have any suggestions for furniture, but I'll ask my cousin who is a UF Art grad - he's always finding new uses for random items including computers.
We donate our old computers to local schools. (working condition of course).
I watched a 60 minutes special about that - how they followed a carton of old dead TV tubes and computer monitors to a lot in China, where they were melting it down and dumping it creating all sorts of health hazards and toxic waste. Very eye opening, for sure. I know here in Denver, there are a few places that will do the recycling locally, but you have to pay them to do it. Occasionally, our news stations will sponsor "E-Cycling" events where they allow people to bring in their "E-Waste" and they HOPEFULLY do the right thing... it's tough though.
I've seen some pretty cool art pieces where motherboards have been repurposed as clipboards, and jewlery boxes - I've also seen hard drive disc earrings and such on Etsy. Maybe someone who knows what they're doing can cannibalize and repurpose your old equipment?
That sounds way cool! I will have to check that out.