Last year at the Google’s I/O conference, it revealed Google Wave. This year the company is making the once invite-only beta communication tool available to everyone at wave.google.com.
When invites first started rolling out last September, Google followers were clamoring to get their Google Wave invite. Since first release, Google has made a number of changes to Google Wave including e-mail notifications, read-only wave access and undo/redo commands.
So now that Google Wave is open to all so we should see an increased interest in the product.
I still say no what I said then. Google Wave does not fill any need. It sits halfway between chatroom and a forum and ends up with the worst of both and adds it’s own marring problems. If you want something interactive get a chatroom. If you want something topically organized get on a forum. Google Wave fills absolutely no need.
Many neighborhoods are served by websites such as Freecycle, where you can offer just about anything for free. Recently I gave away a 4U chassis with a Pentium III and all the guts (save for the hard drive) to a student building a Linux server. I’ve also given away SCSI 1 cables, old switches, monitors and lots of old computer stuff. Seems that no matter how much I give away, I’m still using the same amount of space to store old stuff (like Zip drives, floppies, etc.) I strongly suggest using sites like Freecycle, Craigslist and others to give away old equipment. It’s better than trashing it and someone ends up with a new toy for free.
Good call!
…for a LOT of people.
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I’ve been wrong more than once.
It would have made a great internet machine. Any Linux distro would have made it a machine that would have satisfied 90% of people’s needs.
Currently using a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 GHz socket 478 machine – on a board which supports DDR2 RAM and PCI-E graphics. And it still works like a charm ^^
I still haven’t thrown out my WORKING C64
You could have done allot of cool stuff with it, well at least I know some things i could do with it, as example, made a network analyser out of it with 2 network cards, one that goes to the modem, other to the router, and well yea you can spy on your network! (if you ever get hacked you have logs!, well, if they don’t hack that machine ofcourse)
Had to add that there’s a great company in Issaquah, WA called 1GreenPlanet (don’t know if they have other locations, sorry) and they will take all used electronics, scrap metal, TV’s, and all of the other electronic stuff you feel guilty throwing in the trash for free. I make routine trips over there myself.
I had no idea. That’s awesome! I hope I remember them…
I personally love restoring very old hardware to a usable state. While my primary machine is a Phenom II quadcore I also have a P4 1.8 ghz and a celeron 1.4 ghz notebook which are still perfectly ok. But my favorite machine on which I am proudly using my own LFS Distro to surf the web on WLAN is a Pentium MMX Notebook with 80 MB of RAM and a 2 GB Hard Drive.
My brother’s computer has 256mb of ram and a 1ghz intel processor, and a 60gb Hardrive-that trash above is truely a treasure he could have used
I think it is very wasteful to of thrown such a thing away. If it was very old then yes but some people would love to have a machine like this. Not to mention it could have been sent to a third world country free of charge to you! Many charities exist that do this recycling for free!
among other things, I recently restored a Zenith Z 248 system that was military surplus. it’s a 286 8mhz system with a 40 gig hard drive and 1mb of ram. it’s my definition of a very old system. and the oldest PC I have to date. but I do sometimes question myself on why I keep older computers. I have several built that do not seem to be going anywhere at the moment. as my outlet for donating these has dried up, so I guess I’m not alone anymore in terms of that question. part of me screams “No!, it’s a good computer!” but the logical half knows that I would run out of room really fast if I kept even half of the working systems that I’ve come across.