Amazing what people throw away...

I've known several people who didn't understand the value of backups until their business was facing ruin after they lost the only copy of their data.
It's likely this guy was the same.
 
Tori_T said:
I've known several people who didn't understand the value of backups until their business was facing ruin after they lost the only copy of their data.
It's likely this guy was the same.
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Ditto.
I've also seen students with their whole Thesis on a USB held together with sellotape. Not even emailed it to themselves.
 
Cockney said:
Who would trust their bitcoin wallet to one device?
My lad certainly doesn't.
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Veering slightly off topic, but in such cases what happens to the bitcoins, do they become locked from anyone else to claim, or is there any way they can be put back into circulation? I was really interested in the workings of bitcoin, just an amazingly bit of thought went into thinking it up, who ever invented it.
 
Tori_T said:
I've known several people who didn't understand the value of backups until their business was facing ruin after they lost the only copy of their data.
It's likely this guy was the same.
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Reminds me that I should get an additional storage device, should my current one pack up, I would be really upset to lose all my years of photos and video.
 
jonbeeza said:
Veering slightly off topic, but in such cases what happens to the bitcoins, do they become locked from anyone else to claim, or is there any way they can be put back into circulation? I was really interested in the workings of bitcoin, just an amazingly bit of thought went into thinking it up, who ever invented it.
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Good question. I don't know if they are locked or can be re-mined.
 
Cockney said:
Ditto.
I've also seen students with their whole Thesis on a USB held together with sellotape. Not even emailed it to themselves.
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I was told a student once responded to the suggestion they buy a backup drive with the objection "But that would cost {x} beers!"
Or your degree, but I guess it's all about priorities.
 
Tori_T said:
I was told a student once responded to the suggestion they buy a backup drive with the objection "But that would cost {x} beers!"
Or your degree, but I guess it's all about priorities.
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Seeing the way the students here behave, living doesn't seem to be high on their list of priorities. Not just the almost complete disregard of social distancing but the total unawareness of traffic.
 
Nod said:
Seeing the way the students here behave, living doesn't seem to be high on their list of priorities. Not just the almost complete disregard of social distancing but the total unawareness of traffic.
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I don't know where you are but in Sheffield the Oriental students are practically suicidal when crossing roads.
 
Exeter. As you say, the Orientals are crap at roads but the others seem to fancy alcohol poisoning as an extra.

When they were first allowed back to big school (school kids are better behaved than the local university students IME), the covid rate in the city soared.
 
Cockney said:
Ditto.
I've also seen students with their whole Thesis on a USB held together with sellotape. Not even emailed it to themselves.
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At the school where I worked as IT manager we were regularly presented with mangled USB memory devices that had been run over by cars, chewed by dogs, dropped in muddy puddles or snapped in half & asked if we could recover the data.

I struggled for years trying to persuade teachers to keep their data on the school file servers, usually it took the pain from the loss of some vital document to persuade them.
 
Cockney said:
Who would trust their bitcoin wallet to one device?
My lad certainly doesn't.
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Yeah this guy was supposed to be tech savvy enough 8 years ago to buy bitcoin, but not have any form of backup strategy , pull the other one.
 
Does anyone know of any organisation that takes old cameras for recycling. I've a couple in good working order, with chargers, that I no longer use. Don't want anything for them but it seems a waste to take them to the local re-cycling centre and I don't think charity shops will take them due to the restrictions on selling electrical goods.
 
MitchV said:
Does anyone know of any organisation that takes old cameras for recycling. I've a couple in good working order, with chargers, that I no longer use. Don't want anything for them but it seems a waste to take them to the local re-cycling centre and I don't think charity shops will take them due to the restrictions on selling electrical goods.
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My local charity shop takes electrical goods
 
Rapscallion said:
We had a good sofa, perhaps 25 years old. Tried selling it on gumtree, no interest. Then contacted charities and they didn’t want it as it didn’t have the correct fire resistance labels. Put it on gumtree for free and still no takers. Eventually went to the tip
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Try freecycle if there's one in your area I'm amazed at the stuff I've managed to get rid off.
 
MitchV said:
Does anyone know of any organisation that takes old cameras for recycling. I've a couple in good working order, with chargers, that I no longer use. Don't want anything for them but it seems a waste to take them to the local re-cycling centre and I don't think charity shops will take them due to the restrictions on selling electrical goods.
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You could try here.
www.photostart.org
 
I have tended to keep useful pieces of wood but my wife insists that the garage and shed are cleared out every so often so it is the local recycling centre. In the past we have managed to give some furniture to charities or freecycle. I also took a working TV and a working HiFi system to the recycling centre but told the guy who asked me to put them on one side. I was happy with that as this may well have resulted in the item being re-used. At the camera club we are frequently offered Camera kit and darkroom kit left by a recently deceased relative. Unless they were actually members, we turn them away as no one has time to organise a sale and few want to buy old kit now. I got rid of my darkroom kit by giving to my son to sell on eBay agreeing he could keep anything he earned. Oddly it was bought by a local University student for his Photography course so when he came to collect, I gave him a few extras as well knowing it was all going to be used.

Dave
 
I've got at least three old laptops to get shot of along with a few phones and some mp3 players too.
Got a bag of unused earbud rubbers too, only ever need the medium of the three sizes you get.
Just sold a turntable and graphic equalizer, got my daughters old PS3 and remote to dispose of too (she forgot the password and left it with me to bin)
Then we have a Subbuteo set, myriad of old games, thermos flasks and water bottles.
Not forgetting literally scores of cooking books my wife wants to cull, then we have all the DVD's never to be watched again.
So much rubbish and that's just off the top of my head, far too much stuff in a small Victorian end of terrace cottage.
 
@MitchV when clearing my father-in-laws house we used Camera Amnesty at Shutterhub.org.uk.

I don't know anything about them, but it looks legit. The downside is that you have to pay for shipping.
 
Post the details on here in the Freebies section - a lot of people like to collect these things. I've been meaning to do the same myself as I have a few that may be of interest to some - none worth more than a 'drink'.
 
MitchV said:
Does anyone know of any organisation that takes old cameras for recycling. I've a couple in good working order, with chargers, that I no longer use. Don't want anything for them but it seems a waste to take them to the local re-cycling centre and I don't think charity shops will take them due to the restrictions on selling electrical goods.
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A guy on here keeps wasting his money on years old compact cameras. Maybe offer one to him.

MrRichAllen1976 is his username
 
This takes me back, to the old style 'ashtip' as it was called. In the South Wales Valleys where I grew up, there were coal tips and ashtips.

I remember scouring the mounds of rubbish back in the day for bicycle parts, I was rebuilding an old frame that I got for Christmas one year but I'd grown out of. It sat in the shed, rusting away and was eventually dumped at the bottom of our garden. I dug it out one day and rebuilt it over a few weeks, all with parts found on the tip.

The ashtips were also great places for shooting rats. (y)

The smell though, you wouldn't normally notice it but go away for a week or so and it would hit you on your return. I often thought what people passing through would've thought.

These days, it's a very throw away society. We are just as guilty as a family, today alone I must've made 10 'trips' to the recycling bins in the garden, mainly with packaging that is useless to me but hopefully can be re purposed or recycled properly.

Will it be though? I often wonder if it is. :thinking:
 
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ecoleman said:
I'm not an expert in bitcoin but as far as I understand your wallet with encryption keys are held on your own device.
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I’m not an expert either, but I think the wallet is your proof that the bitcoins belong to you, and the blockchain is the list of all transactions, so a massive ledger book.
 
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