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09-09-2010, 02:18 PM
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#1 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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http://freegeekvancouver.org
I was going to dump a load of old computer parts and didn't want it going into the landfill. Google'd and found this place near E Hastings/Victoria in the alley. Inside was a factory like place full of volunteers and geeks testing and putting together old parts into computers for needy Vancouver families!
"Free Geek is a non profit organization that builds old computers from old donated parts. These computers are rented out to people who work for 24 hours at the facility. The old computers run Linux and are mainly for word processing and simple functions."
NOTE: they take ANY and ALL hardware -- even super old stuff, and they ensure that it is properly disposed of instead of being sent to 3rd world, or Delta's Burns Bog.
Yup I was thinking of volunteering too!
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09-09-2010, 02:27 PM
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#2 | | Who's naughty? I___i
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thanks, i was thinking of selling the parts here on RS, $1 sale ...
now i got place to dump my Shuttle and old AMD S939 stuff... thx
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09-09-2010, 02:46 PM
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#3 | | Banned (ABWS)
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Originally Posted by Szeto  thanks, i was thinking of selling the parts here on RS, $1 sale ...
now i got place to dump my Shuttle and old AMD S939 stuff... thx | which amd 939 socket you got?
i might have a friend who is interested if it's free or really cheap. lol
it's for a fun home project.
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09-09-2010, 02:49 PM
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#4 | | private modder
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You can also take your stuff to a Return-It depot for recycling. It's the only way you can be 100% sure it won't be sent overseas to pollute third word countries.
return-it.ca/electronics
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09-09-2010, 02:51 PM
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#5 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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I've been going to Free Geeks for a few years now. Good bunch of people. Hippies of the computer world.
I was thinking of volunteering there. They do a lot of good by making sure shit stays out of our landfills and whatever is reusable actually goes to good use.
They also make sure the stuff gets recycled. A lot of places say they do, but..............
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09-09-2010, 03:34 PM
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#6 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Your local London Drugs will also recycle your computer parts for free AND you can donate them to Free Geek there as well! We will arrange transport of the products through our warehouse to Free Geek. 
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09-09-2010, 04:00 PM
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#7 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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I volunteered a couple times, you meet some pretty cool people there. i'd do it more often if it weren't so far away.
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09-09-2010, 04:24 PM
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#8 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Good find. I'm going to recycle this old computer I have at home.
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09-09-2010, 04:26 PM
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#9 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by Szeto thanks, i was thinking of selling the parts here on RS, $1 sale ...
now i got place to dump my Shuttle and old AMD S939 stuff... thx | AMD Socket 939 isn't THAT old, I'm still using my FX-57 right now. =D
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09-09-2010, 04:55 PM
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#10 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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I'm still using a socket 939...
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09-09-2010, 06:22 PM
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#11 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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s939? i'm still using my s462 
while i'm all for the recycling aspect of things, there have been many, many rumours about employees at recycle-it scavenging the computers for parts they can sell before actually processing the donations. i hope it's not true!
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09-09-2010, 06:54 PM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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i take my computer parts to salvation army. they are an electronics recycle depot.
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09-10-2010, 08:10 AM
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#13 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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i have dontated bunch of pc's to NEIL SQUIRE society. (they use computers to train disabled ppl) You also get tax recipt for ur donations.
cheers
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09-10-2010, 12:13 PM
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#14 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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nice, I wanna volunteer there too. Should learn a lot of stuff there.
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09-10-2010, 12:17 PM
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#15 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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I have a working Pentium II 400 Mhz - CPU and MOBO I need to throw away.
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09-10-2010, 12:23 PM
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#16 | | Banned By Establishment
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I Pay EHF for a reason... someone better be handling this  | |
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09-25-2010, 10:05 PM
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#17 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 s939? i'm still using my s462
while i'm all for the recycling aspect of things, there have been many, many rumours about employees at recycle-it scavenging the computers for parts they can sell before actually processing the donations. i hope it's not true! | If you're dumping it, you obviously weren't expecting to get a dime for the parts, who cares if they try to sell your stuff? Freegeek does in their thrift store btw. I get a lot of my parts there. | |
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09-25-2010, 10:49 PM
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#18 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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selling as a store is different than selling for personal profit, that was my point.
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09-26-2010, 03:01 PM
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#19 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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does these places accept my old monitor ? CRT style
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09-26-2010, 03:18 PM
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#20 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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09-26-2010, 05:50 PM
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#21 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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I'm glad we have places like this in BC. I just watched a documentry made by some ubc students that showed alot of the e waste from north america going to foreign countries to be destroyed. Was an interesting watch.
Here's a link to the video http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/st...deo_index.html
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09-26-2010, 08:13 PM
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#22 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Greenstoner does these places accept my old monitor ? CRT style | Yes, CRT monitors are fine.
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Originally Posted by PeanutButter Damn, not only is yours veiny AF, yours is thick AF too. Yours is twice as thick as mine.. That looks like a 2" or maybe even 3"? | | |
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09-26-2010, 09:13 PM
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#23 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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are there lots of parking spaces avaliable?
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09-27-2010, 10:15 AM
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#24 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by Boobiemaster I'm still using a socket 939... | Me too - that's my "newest" computer...
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09-27-2010, 08:34 PM
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#25 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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thanks brah, i have a lot of computer towers and monitors that need to be disposed of
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