Re: Gold
by Sheetal Kaur on Jan 05, 2015 11:22 PM
you will need a thousand motherboards to get a gram of gold, and the process is dangerous. It involves couple of very volatile acids.
Re: Re: Gold
by pravin sarode on Jan 06, 2015 07:38 AM
Scrap dealers in India are so famous that even garbage of ground zero new yark was shipped to India such famous r indian bhangarwalas
This is a very good idea. I hope that old computers also find thier way into low end private schools and municipal schools so that the kids can be taught basic computer usage to make them more employable in the future.
I have a pentium III PC that has been lying unused for a long time. The processor, motherboard, hard disk and RAM are OK. There will be millions of old PCs that may be unable to run Windows 7 applications but are serviceable nevertheless. They have significant computing power. Scrapping / recycling them is a huge waste of available computing power.
I was wondering if it's technically possible to collect hundreds of old PCs, connect them over a network using Linux or similar networked operating system to provide a system with huge computing power and storage. This can serve as a cost-effective cloud a
I know this is easier said than done, but should not be technically impossible. Any suggestions from fellow readers ?
Re: One suggestion
by crazedcat on Jan 05, 2015 01:02 PM
Technically, yes, but the problem does not lie there. It lies in logistics. Building it requires considerable passion, willingness, a lot of time, and also some money for repairs and replacements. The number of people who can provide all these are very few here in India, since we don't have much of a maker culture in us.
You're better off donating your PC to a student. Not to a school but to 1 student. Donating to poor schools is a concept western do gooders love. But we Indians know our school education system better, don't we?
That young kid in our midst who might become the next bill gates has to first cross such barriers as the school maali with a stick or a strict teacher who can't understand benefits of computers before he can access that PC in his school and create something. Rarely happens. It's useless donating to schools.
If you want to inspire a spark in students, donate it directly to a student.
Re: One suggestion
by crazedcat on Jan 05, 2015 01:03 PM
Technically, yes, but the problem does not lie there. It lies in logistics. Building it requires considerable passion, willingness, a lot of time, and also some money for repairs and replacements. The number of people who can provide all these are very few here in India, since we don't have much of a maker culture in us.
You're better off donating your PC to a student. Not to a school but to 1 student. Donating to poor schools is a concept western do gooders love. But we Indians know our school education system better, don't we?
That young kid in our midst who might become the next bill gates has to first cross such barriers as the school maali with a stick or a strict teacher who can't understand benefits of computers before he can access that PC in his school and create something. Rarely happens. It's useless donating to schools.
If you want to inspire a spark in students, donate it directly to a student.
Re: One suggestion
by Sheetal Kaur on Jan 05, 2015 11:25 PM
Forget windows and rebuild it using Linux. it will run faster then windows and Linux is free. being open source one can change it the way one likes. Google UBANTU and down load. Or if still want to use it with windows then use it to stream music around the house.
Re: One suggestion
by on Jan 05, 2015 11:45 AM
it is possible to give , computation power to village at least !, ---------------------------------- even with no monitor we can build good network , with huge computational power
Re: One suggestion
by peelid d on Jan 06, 2015 12:52 AM
You are thinking about amount of compute power. But you should also consider the amount of electricity it is going to waste. It is better to recycle these old systems and get a new one which is more energy efficient.
Re: One suggestion
by GURUVAYURAPPAN K on Jan 07, 2015 01:21 PM
Maintenance of old computer systems are prohibitively costly. Equally expensive are the cost of upgrading memory etc. So your idea is good, but not practicable.
