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St. Louis Bridging focuses on reusing and recycling computers in the St. Louis, MO, area. The primary mover is Web Innovations and Techology Services (WITS), which recycles/refurbishes donated systems by fixing or replacing what may be broken and putting it back into the community for educational use. This keeps the used equipment out of the landfills, and provides those in need with the technology to accomplish their educational/career goals. As of August 4, 2006, WITS had diverted over 1.4 million pounds of electronics and computer equipment from landfills, Angela Haas, president, reported. WITS provided computers and electronics to over 2500 low-income families, with special programs for veterans, seniors, and persons with handicaps.
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Purged drives for refurbished computers, the DoD standard
Bob Babione | August 3
What, exactly, is the Department of Defense (DoD) standard for clearing, sanitizing, wiping, purging, cleansing, cleaning, degaussing, killing, or destroying hard drives? The question has been around for a while at WITS because it “GUARANTEES DOD standard data removal and/or HARD DRIVE...
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Computer refurbishing, system duplication success
Bob Babione | May 5
Test WORKS on 5/5/06! - got a duplicated disk of Windows 2000 to work in several different machines without the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!
First I attempted to apply Bill Geschwind's sysprep.inf to the existing "master." That did not work. So I prepared a "bare bones" w2k disk and applied his...
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Blue Screen of Death Solutions
Bob Babione | April 22
The duplication works for different hard drives in the same machine. The duplicated drives, however, do not work on different machines: a blue screen of death comes up in one of two ways. So some searching lead to:
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One duplicated disk, but . . .
Bob Babione | April 15
April 14, 2006
Got the first "ghosted" hard drive running!
Issues / observations:
Hardware issue to start out with: a bad keyboard. No message re bad keyboard; the booting process just hung up.
Managed to get the operating disk restored to full size (put in video card that worked with...
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National Wireless Summit Opening
Bob Babione | April 3
March 31, 2006
Opening day for the Summit for Community Wireless Networks
Arrived around 3:30 or 4, so missed most of the presentations.
The first presentation, for me, was on municipal technologies and strategies. Ken DiPietro formed Conxx (a...
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Windows to Linux
Bob Babione | September 24, 2005
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| This is a beginner's guide for moving from Windows to linux, Really Linux. It includes a link to many additional guides for new users are also available on the Mark Rais's Linux Help page. |
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How Everyday Things Are Made
Bob Babione | September 16, 2005
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| The Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford says that "[i]f you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles . . . then you've come to the right place."
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Cell phone cost comparison
Bob Babione | September 16, 2005
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| Information on rates and comparison grids for cell phones and service plans is at this site. |
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SANS Reading Room
Bob Babione | September 16, 2005
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| The SANS Reading Room is a source for
information-security training and certification. |
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PC tuneup at Gizmo's Top Picks
Bob Babione | September 13, 2005
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| Accordding to the site, "Our free computer checkup and diagnostics can help you detect and fix many common PC
problems!" The privacy statement says you may use the site anonymously without supplying a name or email addresss, though setting up an account is helpful. |
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