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June 13, 2007
Piles of "Stuff"
I spent a couple hours in my office last night, sorting through the boxes of random and sundry computer and computer-related parts that seem to accumulate in my closet.
I discovered a few things.
1. DSL Line filters must reproduce like rabits. I don't have DSL, haven't had DSL in years, and I had (have) a ton of those blasted things.
2. My former strategy of "keep one of each cable" seems increasingly silly. I mean, where am I even going to find a device that has a 25 pin serial port? And how 'bout a 50 pin Centronics SCSI port? They're all leaving.
3. Oh, Power and VGA cables - see observation #1.
4. If I ever want to, say, build a card house, I could probably build it out of 10/100Mb Ethernet cards.
So I went from three boxes down to one. Now I just need to find something to do with all the crap, er, stuff I'm done with.
Posted by dberger at June 13, 2007 3:06 PM
Comments
Heidi and I went through a similar effort before Devin was born. I hauled at least 5 (probably more) boxes-o-stuff to the local electronics recycling place. Old Netgear hubs seemed to be a particular favorite as were fiber GigE cards (don't ask). We're probably due for another consolidation clean-up since uncovering more stuff and of course buying/acquiring other new stuff.
Posted by: Steve S. at June 19, 2007 10:14 PM