Anyone have a spare machine?

[Leo Mauler]

--- David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/5/06, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > You might be able to get most of (if not all of)
> > > a spare computer from them for free.  The
> > > computer might even be from someone in your area
> > > (my wife is a member of the Greater Kansas City
> > > Freecycle community).
> > >
> > One word of warning: to get something free you
> > have to join the group.  To join the group you 
> > have to give away something for free (whomever 
> > wants it must come and pick it up).  This doesn't 
> > have to be anything expensive: some people give 
> > away "misc box of stuff", though they have to 
> > tell you what is in it.
> 
> Ha ha ha ha ha I am such a geek, I presumed that
> "freecycle" had to do with processor cycles, and 
> it was a community clustering project the likes 
> of which I have long dreamed --- after reading 
> further in the discussion I realized that 
> freecycle is a pun on recycle.

Yes, I had just posted on another forum about Grid.org
and whatever SETI at Home has merged with, and then my
wife told me about "Freecycle" and I had the same
reaction you did.  :)


		
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