{"id":483,"date":"2009-06-12T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/?p=483"},"modified":"2020-01-11T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T06:22:11","slug":"new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/new-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Out with the old…….but to where?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, I have got a new computer. It has been a long slow painful wait for it to arrive but arrive it did and now I am trying to get myself back on track again. Not being a computer expert I am not quite sure what happened to my old one. I\u2019m guessing the warranty had run out It\u2019s usually around this time that everything starts to go wrong. It started with  the keyboard falling apart, first the left click button and then the letter \u2018o\u2019  just ceased to work anymore.  Then my processors didn\u2019t seem overly happy to be working,  taking around about 10 minutes  to open up a photo never mind trying to edit it. To top it all off the drivers that ran the graphics started playing up and kept crashing my screen. I am sure there is someone out there who will read this and go \u201coh that sounds like a classic case of blah blah blah and all he really needed to do was blah blah blah and all would be right again.\u201d <\/p>\n

So far the only problem that I find with my new computer is the keys. After using a European keyboard for so long I tend to keep mixing up the Y and the Z button. All in all though i am enjoying my new toy. \"IMG_2180\"<\/p>\n

You should expect to see lots of new photos on my website soon as I make a desperate attempt to catch up now that I have fallen so far behind. It\u2019s really quite amazing how many little shortcuts and passwords are on your computer that you suddenly miss.<\/p>\n

On an interesting note my local councils in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney have decided to stop collecting E-waste such as computers television and so on. This is an environmental initiative in order to stop the leaching of chemicals from resistors and chips as they break down in the land-fill areas. The councils believe that if they stop collecting the e-waste then the onus will fall upon the producers to stop creating said chips and resistors and replace them with environmental friendly ones instead. Although it seems like their hearts are in the right place there seems to me to be a few flaws in the councils plan. The companies that produce the computers and such are not based in my local. Sure there is a few offices nearby but the head are all in some other country and no doubt, at this early stage of the initiative, completely oblivious to the councils attempt at strong-arming them into action. The councils have offered no replacement for the collection of e-waste which means instead of being collected and stored together things will now just be dumped in bush, by the side of the road, wherever people can get rid of things.  Surely if you remove a service like rubbish removal then it should be replaced with a solution and not just a statement to say \u201cwe are not going to collect it anymore\u201d  fullstop.<\/p>\n

It is possible to recycle a large amount of E-waste. Granted not all. When then instead of refusing to collect it not set up a recycling plant or initiate a plan whereby it will be sent to be recycled. I think that instead of fixing the problem they have just washed their hands of the whole thing and that the best that we could hope for is that consumerism and wanton waste of such product would go decrease. <\/p>\n