Daily Archives: January 22, 2005

Sometimes even the old computers are a blessing

Purely Personal

I have had an old Micron laptop hanging around for years that I can’t give away. Nobody wants it. It only has 40MB of RAM and it is not possible to increase it. Therefore you can’t put Windows XP on it.

However, today I am upgrading it from Win95 to Win98SE, putting IE6 SP1 and Office XP (extra license) to give to a family that lives up the road from my parents. Their house burned down to the ground on Thursday and they have nothing. Not even their toothbrushes.

My mom told the teenage boy in the family that helps my her and my dad with their dogs about the computer (and that it’s old and does not have the latest cool stuff on it) and he is beyond thrilled. It was certainly worth holding on to!!! So just remember that next time you look at that old hardware that you think is too dated to be of value to anyone.

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thinktecture donates the eBay seller fees for Tsunami auction

Asia

Big thanks to the guys at thinktecture who found themselves a little late to reply “YES YES OF COURSE!!” to being in the first .NET Celebrity Auction to Aceh Aid at IDEP. They have offered to cover the eBay seller fees that Stephen and I have to pay for this auction. We have tried to contact eBay about removing the fee of 1.5% for any amount our auction recieves abouto $1,000 (that’s the total not the 30 individual donations). eBay is very careful about trying to protect buyers from the many many fraudulent “charity auctions” and unfortunately it has made things extremely complex and difficult for Stephen and I in trying to make this thing fly.



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