On 7 Feb 2010 at 13:37, Dave McGuire wrote:
THat however,
is secondary to
the fact that we have a WEEE direcrtive that means we have to
recycle electronic equipment and not throw it in the skip/dumpster.
And I have _never_ seen a PC in a skip/dumpster in London (and I am
certainly not going to trespass on various company sites to see if I
can steal one).
I would. :) But I see PeeCees on the curb quite often.
I don't imagine that the UK has any sort of computer reuse/donation
organizations, either. So the moment you quit using a PC, the police
show up on your doorstep to make sure that you won't give/sell the
system to anyone else? As far as I know, the UK only requires that a
PC be licensed if it's used to view television content. Or has that
changed? And how can they tell?
The system that I'm typing this on was gained via the local Freecycle
network. Originally it came in a 4U rackmount case, but that's been
repurposed for a different ssystem.
--Chuck