Welcome to my "unofficial web log" of computer recycling. You just bought a Pentium II or III system. Now you need to figure out how to use it, what software works best with it, or what kind of things you can do with your system. This web log hopes to answer some of those questions.
So, hello, and welcome. I'm Charles. I work for The Working Centre as the coordinator of the centre's computer recycling effort. For those who have met me in person, congratulations on finding your way to this small personal recycling space. If we haven't met yet, you'll probably find that I'm a pretty personable. I'm an open source software advocate. This means I usually recommend open-source software (i.e. Open Office) over closed software (Microsoft Office), but not always.
At The Working Centre we use quite a bit of open source software. We have a rock solid Samba file server, an internal LAMP (Web database) server, and we recycle computers with both our own Linux distribution, The Working Centre Linux Project, and Ubuntu Linux. We also host the Kitchener Waterloo Linux User's Group.
We sell systems at a pretty good price, Pentium II's starting at $15 CDN, the procedes of which go to help local programs including job counselling, recycled cycles, paperkraf, housing, etc. We do a bit of computer repair work also.
Well, it's time to head out. Tomorrow, spyware and viruses...
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