Free stuff (UK) again

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jul 8 14:10:50 2004

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:39, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> The reason there are no PCs or other
> common items is that they're going to an African charity project.

Funny thing is, you'd think that these charity projects need network
hardware too, yet I've not heard of anywhere taking it (and cabling - I
mean, it all adds up). Presumably infrastructure stuff just comes out of
the monetary donations pot.

I believe the laws are changing fairly soon here so that it costs money
to dispose of unwanted computer equipment. I'm not sure how such charity
organisations will be hit when they have to pay to dispose of any bits
which are donated and they find to be unsuitable or non-working.

> > Does nobody use 10Mbps any more?
>
> It's not cool. Everyone thinks they need 100Mbps at least, or
> preferably Gigabit. The fact that their PCs mostly can't keep up with
> that seems to be immaterial, as is the fact that their web connection
> is hardly likey to keep up with the PC.

Uh huh! Personally I'd find 100Mbit to be handy between a couple of my
modern machines just because I shift a lot of large images around - but
the 10Mbit serves me quite well otherwise.

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 14:10:50 BST