When disposing of old electronics, make sure not to just throw them in the trash, either. Computer parts have a lot of dangerous heavy metals and other elements in them, and should be recycled appropriately. Check with your local waste disposal center ahead of time to see what options they have for recycling.
Some states even require by law that electronics be disposed of safely! Also, you can sometimes make a buck selling old parts online. There isn't a huge market for old parts, but a Pentium 4 can fetch upwards of $20 on eBay. We will have a more detailed article on computer reuse and recycling in the coming months.
(it's all one paragraph; chat wouldn't let me put it all in at once)
My faborite Apple questions go unanswered ;-) http://superuser.com/questions/236558/how-to-clear-all-html5-local-storage-from-safari http://superuser.com/questions/122352/can-i-change-the-from-name-and-address-without-going-into-mail-apps-preference
@IvoFlipse I'm not sure what kinds of posts are appropriate for the blog. Any advice there? TBH, I can't even see blog posts of mine like those the Macworld guys published on the SU blog. They don't seem to fit somehow...
(Hehe, as for my last comment at superuser.com/questions/122352/…, hence not backing up my messages? No thanks! [...] Mail.app (which has GREAT integration with Time Machine by the way). — I had my first full Time Machine restore a few weeks ago. Including buying and installing the new disk, it took me less than 3 hours!
@DanielBeck we can also turn it around, write a blog post first, then create a question that fits it and post a summary as an answer + a link to the blog
True, @IvoFlipse, I guess I could combine many of the TM questions into one "Do you know all of the Time Machine secrets?" (Like I love my redundant TM disks, but many just trust in one disk they keep close to their computer....)
Here are somethings that I would like to see this week:
1. A post everyday again. 2. I'm going to be doing the first WTF post this week, but please be thinking ahead for more ideas in this departement. 3. Productive Thurday hasn't started yet, anybody wanna take it on? 4. I would like to see a post about the maintance or actual use of SU (i.e. asking proper questions, how to edit, answering the best way
Currently everyone writes drafts and if possible notifies the others in the Google Docs. We then schedule the posts so we make sure we have at least one post every day and possibly more at some point
@Arjan you of all people know best that things change over time, so if there's a major change, we'll blog about it ;)
there's far too many users who never read MSO let alone MSU and Jeff certainly doesn't blog about every minor feature change
we could ask @yhw42 to help you write a 'definitive' post about how to use the review tools effectively ;)
It's experiment time!
We'd like to try the following -- with help from the moderators and community leaders.
When a new "big" game is released, provide (x) copies of it gratis to gaming.se community members in good standing, with (y) rep minimum.
The game should be ordered by a community leade...
If it looks like the Dutch word for rain, then yes, it should be delivered? But if you just clicked the email address then all should be fine, eventually. (I just clicked it myself and it is correct.)
lol I had to think on that one ;P (the word for rain)
well there's no rush, my main message is: write about what you love about Apple products and if you can relate that to Super User, then all will be well ;)
and you should totally do a post about: 10 obscure features a Stack Exchange newbie should know about! (getting edited, closed questions, migrations blablabla)
As an aside: maybe your email is one of the 90,23% spam that my providers just blocks, according to this: xs4all.nl/klant/veiligheid/statistieken.php (It's not in my own junk folder though, so I doubt that. Most spam is tagged, but still delivered to me.)
But first, @GeorgeEdison, should fix the image rot. (No, not related to the free hand circle tool, but ALL OTHER image rot. We all know he can do the job.)
What, @DanielBeck, no diamonds without any further obligation? Pfff, where has this world come to! ;-)
(@IvoFlipse, you're right that in the end only SE knows which imgur.com images are on the non-expiring SE account, and which are not. We need to keep the pressure on though!)
we just need to create such posts some time in advance, so when we have 2 or 3 of them, we know we'll be able to maintain it for a longer period of time
How do you organize your disk for your projects?
I find that I spend a lot of time looking for files, which adds extra overhead to my work.
I keep trying to implement organization schemes, but they end up being too complex or inconsistent, and so I typically end up putting stuff in ~/temp and w...
After that, I'll get on to the performance posts. I've got a mail that I'm in the Soluto Alpha and I'm allowed to release a post about it's new features once the next Soluto Beta releases. Those could most likely easily fit in the performance posts as the easy way of troubleshooting things...
It's experiment time!
We'd like to try the following -- with help from the moderators and community leaders.
When a new "big" game is released, provide (x) copies of it gratis to gaming.se community members in good standing, with (y) rep minimum.
The game should be ordered by a community leade...
How do you organize your disk for your projects?
I find that I spend a lot of time looking for files, which adds extra overhead to my work.
I keep trying to implement organization schemes, but they end up being too complex or inconsistent, and so I typically end up putting stuff in ~/temp and w...
