Carrion Crows

[dog-star-man.livejournal.com]

Hey guys...just because I'm upgrading a bunch of computers from crappy PIIs to nifty PIV Dells, and swapping out all the peripherals ta' boot, don't go getting the idea that all the old hardware is up for a free grab. I see you all giving me those greedy looks you always give me when I'm lugging cpus around the plant. Bunch of fucking vultures. I have never given anyone anything for free from my stockpile of spare hardware. If it still works, I'll use it 'til it doesn't work. Then you can have it to give to your baby to chew on or to make fancy jewelry with. Now go away with your stupid self.

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[bamatone.livejournal.com]

Heh.. I'm definitely one of the vultures at my workplace. Luckily I'm also the person doing the upgrades. ;)

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

*rant*

I have to scavenge workable stuff from old computers here, like the hard drives(there's a stack of over a hundred on my desk that i haven't gotten around to taking apart and destroying), and the memory... so sometimes people see a computer sitting there that looks just fine and they ask if they can have it.

95% of the desktops that die here are from bad caps on the motherboards.

I'm dreading when I start throwing out the working Win98 machines, people are going to want to take home their celeron 700 that they've been used for the last 5 years...

It's 864 dollars Canadian plus shipping/tax to install XP/Office 2003 on a system. It's 1250ish plus shipping/tax to just buy a new machine with OEM XP/2003.

At that point, why bother upgrading?

I've had people ask me to wipe and reinstall win98 on a removed-from-service old machine so they can take it home and use it for the internet... the machine was a pentium 120 with 32 meg ram.. These people are the ones in the Model T's on the information superhighway... on the side of the road.

*/rant*

[indigo-max.livejournal.com]

I've got a co-worker whose solution to almost any problem is to replace the machine. That has lead to an extreme amount of older PC's just hanging about until they can be reimaged or sent off for surplus. We generally have a few vultures who look at the older PC's like they were free candy in the secretary's desk dish. Sure, I'll give you one of these machines as long as you go to the districts surplus sale and buy it it. Course it will be strip of memory and the hard drive, well I can't say how well it work after the demagnetizer gets it :).

Max...

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I've worked in places where they didn't bother for the machines to be decommissioned first. PCs would just mysteriously fail to boot one morning, and we'd discover they were missing RAM, CPUs, hard disks...

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I've had people complain bitterly about their desktop machine with one breath, ask if I had a spare to give away for free in the next...