any of
Friday I can take off work :-(
73 Bill n1vux
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gerry Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll be at NearFEST selling ham related items as well as demoing
> an Asterisk PBX (www.pbxinaflash.com) and giving away free phone calls
> (US/Canad
I'll be at NearFEST selling ham related items as well as demoing
an Asterisk PBX (www.pbxinaflash.com) and giving away free phone calls
(US/Canada) as well as giving away some CDs of the PBX distribution
(Which is based on CentOS 5). I'll be selling some Nortel i2004 business
desk ph
On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:37, Ben Scott wrote:
See my message to Bill Sconce with regards to accounting. This is
easily solved.
ah, yes, good solution.
Are you familiar with the nature of the justice system in this
country at all? :)
There's the distinction between being good enough to ho
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!
We have a parallel problem to this in many small NH towns (including ours,
Rumney). We are nickle-and-dimed at the dump for many things besides
CRTs.
Since they charge $5 to $10 to dispose of
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What if we got illegal alien robots and locked them in during 3rd shift?
Illegal alien robots from Mexico, or from Mars?
Mars should work fine because Martian robots don't observe Daylight
Saving Time.
--
"One day I feel I'm ahead of the whe
On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Of course, we could write some software that runs on Linux that drives
> robots to disassemble computers/monitors/other hazardous waste, but why
> bother (hint, prod).
>
Of course, we'd have to b
Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Of course, we could write some software that runs on Linux that drives
> robots to disassemble computers/monitors/other hazardous waste, but why
> bother (hint, prod).
>
Of course, we'd have to be sure we weren't violating their rights:
http://www
On 3/20/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- It puts most of the burden on the operators, not the perpetrators
I'm much more afraid of the legal system than losing $20
From the standpoint of the operators, that doesn't matter. Consider:
I = You bring a CRT in
P = You pay the dep
On Mar 19, 2007, at 18:38, Ben Scott wrote:
- It puts most of the burden on the operators, not the perpetrators
I'm much more afraid of the legal system than losing $20 - the burden
would depend on individual decisions like that. Some days I'd be
happy to have somebody do monitor disposal
David Ecklein wrote:
> We have a parallel problem to this in many small NH towns (including ours,
> Rumney). We are nickle-and-dimed at the dump for many things besides CRTs.
> Since they charge $5 to $10 to dispose of them, it is not uncommon to see a
> mattress rotting away in an otherwise beaut
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!
> On 3/19/07, Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The whole idea has drawbacks.
>
> True, true.
>
> > Example 1a: Just as
On 3/19/07, Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The whole idea has drawbacks.
True, true.
Example 1a: Just asking people to not bring CRT monitors would be
effective at some level. That is, most would comply. The ones
who won't comply will bring them in anyway.
Fair bit of truth in
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:38:40 -0400
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 2007, at 22:15, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> >> Maybe we can get them to change their minds about the monitors.
> >
> > I understand the concerns about the
Hi,
Apparently the organizers of Near-Fest believe that CRTs are dinosaurs,
and no one buys them any more.
I did attempt to correct that philosophy, but since the large number of
things that we bring to sell are not monitors, I did not push it. I
will let the rest of their "commercial sellers" t
On 3/19/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 17, 2007, at 22:15, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
Maybe we can get them to change their minds about the monitors.
I understand the concerns about the illegal dumping. Perhaps another
option would be to register these monitors based on ph
On Mar 17, 2007, at 22:15, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
Maybe we can get them to change their minds about the monitors.
I understand the concerns about the illegal dumping. Perhaps another
option would be to register these monitors based on photo-id and
brand/serial number at the gate on the
On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if the issue is *all* of the "heavy metal" that was typically
abandoned when the event ended, with CRT screens just being the most
visible (pardon the pun) of them.
I can't speak for them, of course, but I know that our local
co
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 22:36 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > and I found out that they are going to charge a $20. deposit on computer
> > monitors to make sure that people take them back out with them.
>
> They seem to be calling out tubes, a
On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and I found out that they are going to charge a $20. deposit on computer
monitors to make sure that people take them back out with them.
They seem to be calling out tubes, and by implication, not flat
panels. Doubtless because of the di
en by another ham group: http://www.farfest.org/
>
> Crackers don't matter!
>
> -- Ben
Yes, I found out about "www.farfest.org" after suggesting (in fun) that they
call
it that. I did recommend to Ed Lawson that he speak to them about their
name. If "NEARFest" becomes
On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So maybe they should call it Farscape...no, no...Fun Amateur Radio Fest
(FARfest)
"Farfest" is already taken by another ham group: http://www.farfest.org/
Crackers don't matter!
-- Ben
--
"One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel /
>
> The new event will be called NEARFest and will basically be a
> replacement event for Hosstraders and expected to be equal in size, etc.
>
> Great new for hams and others.
>
Well, I am glad to see this happen, but as the Hosstraders guys said, it
takes some planning to
h 17, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!
> It has been officially announced that a replacement hamfest will happen
> on the Weekend of May 4-5 this year at the Derfield Fairgrounds. As
> some may know, Hosstraders was held there years ago and it is a great
> locat
fficially announced that a replacement hamfest will happen
> on the Weekend of May 4-5 this year at the Derfield Fairgrounds. As
> some may know, Hosstraders was held there years ago and it is a great
> location.
>
> The new event will be called NEARFest and will basically be a
> repla
It has been officially announced that a replacement hamfest will happen
on the Weekend of May 4-5 this year at the Derfield Fairgrounds. As
some may know, Hosstraders was held there years ago and it is a great
location.
The new event will be called NEARFest and will basically be a
replacement
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