I have the following items incoming to the hardware library hopefully this week:
3X 2GB DDR 3 1333mhz 2X 1GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon HD5770 with crossfire cables. Hopefully not too heavy but should be desirable items. - Noah On 18 May 2014 21:28, Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a list of some things that I think would be good for the hardware > library, if you have something that matches which you don't need then > please > bring it to a LUV meeting to donate it. Also just bring random stuff > that's > small and light. > > DDR2 and DDR3 RAM - I think there is plenty of older RAM in the library > already. > > Laptop RAM. Not many people want it but those who do want it badly. It > also > works in lots of modern printers. > > USB Flash storage. While most of us get enough freebies from trade shows > I'm > sure that some people need more. It's small and light so I don't mind > carrying them around. > > 64bit PCs. I'm not planning to carry spare machines to regular meetings, > but > I'm happy to store a few in case someone needs one and bring them to a > meeting > on demand. Post to the list first if you plan to bring a PC to the > meeting. > > ATI PCIe video cards. NVidia has driver issues (either a lack of features > or > non-free depending on which driver you choose). > > Small Ethernet switches that are quiet. Even a 10baseT switch is very > handy > if it's small and light. > > USB mice. > > Micro-USB cables suitable for connecting Android devices (and many other > things) to PCs. > > USB power supply as used for phones and tablets. > > Android devices. Even devices that run Android 2.1 can be useful if they > aren't broken. More recent Android devices can be useful even if they are > a > bit broken (EG a cracked screen still leaves an Android device as a > portable > computer with a camera). > > Accessories for phones (please clearly label which phone they belong to). > There are multiple standards for things like external microphones for > phones, > some old phones are unreasonably expensive to buy parts for. Batteries are > useful if they can take at least 50% original charge, please wrap > batteries in > plastic to avoid the risk of short-circuiting. > > > > Here are some things that I personally need: > > A US style extension cable that goes from a PC PSU to a monitor. It's not > a > very important thing for me but would be nice to have. As few PCs have the > socket for such a cable nowadays there should be a few unused out there. > > A quad-core PC with 4*DDR2 sockets that can take full height PCIe cards. > > SATA disks with many bad sectors. The ideal would be to have about 0.1% of > reads fail. I'm doing some research into error recovery. Please clearly > write "BAD" on such disks to avoid unfortunate mistakes. Note that when I > am > finished experimenting with such disks I will use a hammer to make them > unreadable - just in case the disk problems made it impossible to delete > some > of your data. > > USB keyboards. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >
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