[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, June 26

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Tucker Trainor, Dave Sevick and  
especially Charles Firth for joining me at the Goodwill Computer  
Recycling Center today.

Charles put our server up on the rack, changed the oil, rotated the  
tires and did a tune-up to bring it back to working condition. I'd  
tell you what he really did, but, frankly, I don't have a clue, with  
all that geek talk he was exchanging with Dave. All I know is the  
plague of kernel panics we've been getting for the past several weeks  
appears to have been quashed.

We refurbished 9 Macintoshes today, including a Leopard capable Dual  
1.25 G4 Tower, to bring our all-time total to 1,955. We de- 
manufactured another 10 Macs.

We'll have another workday next Friday, July 3.

As a gentle reminder, please note Goodwill has finally re-instituted
the security procedures they were using in the Lawrenceville facility
before the CRC moved to the South Side. Security cameras have been
activated, and the metal detector at the exit has been switched on and
staffed.

Entry is only from the South 26th St. entrance. We cannot enter the
ComputerWorks Store and go through the back door as we used to.

We are asked to stop at the reception desk at the main lobby to sign
in to get a volunteer badge, then sign in to the log book at the CRC
entrance at the metal detector. The log book now has a separate tab
section just for our members to sign in and out.

We followed these procedures when we were in the Lawrenceville
building, and it's taken Goodwill some time to re-install all the
devices to cover the area with video surveillance.

These measures are to make sure data on disk drives does not get out
of the building before the drives can be securely erased or destroyed.
Goodwill is serious about this, as everyone should be. Any incident of
data from the drives they are entrusted to wipe or destroy getting out
would destroy the credibility of their operation, and lead to people
sending computers elsewhere for recycling.

So please, check in. It takes two minutes, and we're not in any hurry.

Hope to see you there!

Robert A. Donaldson
radonaldson at mac.com
(H) 412-922-3303
(M) 412-477-9188