Charles J Knight wrote: > > > My thought was that our "castoffs" are probably more than > > adequate, > > > and if he could pick up shipping, it could work for everyone. > > > > True! Anyone want to volunteer to be coordinator here? > > I would volunteer, but I've got WAY too many commitments already, > as well as a sick mother. http://www.austin1.com/nola I'm more > than willing to donate some spare parts, though. Sort of the same thing here, though not as rough perhaps; I should finish moving in here some day... (Heh - let's just nominate the guy who will be taking these to Ghana, he's volunteered <EG>) > > > He also said that shipping is only part of the expense of getting > > stuff > > > into the country. Something about the officials at the port > > adding an > > > additional "surcharge." ;-) > > > > Certainly implied. You know, if you could arrange for a news > > reporter > > to accompany those computers through the customs area, video cameras > > running, to document this wonderful happening, they might > > temporarily feel "generous"... > > Y'know, this is a relatively novel effort. It's originated and > coordinated > through the internet. That angle would probably be newsworthy, by > itself. Shouldn't be too hard to find an interested news service. ... For that matter, there are a few 'Net news agencies IIRC? Someone with a wireless WebCam should be good here. > Might even be good for a internet simulcast, if the facilities are > available. Think about the international uproar from the internet, > if "problems" were encountered, live, on a simulcast capable of > being received by 50 million people worldwide. <VBEG!> Better than Video at 11; Live Video NOW <G> Need a satellite uplink there, if cell/??? isn't available for enough bandwidth... > > > Yep. And, if it was available, a custom burned CDROM backup disk > > > could be used to "restore" the hard drives to identical condition. > > > > Same disk could have several component files, alternately, pick the > > one > > you want (Do-able from a batch file or script.) > > True. Actually, my Acer desktop came with something like that, > in which you enter in their insanely long model ID number and > it installs the appropriate set of software. > > It's one of the things I liked best about it -- and that it was done > years before it became "normal." Good idea on their part. > > I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. > > (For private individuals at cost; ask.) > > Any suggestions about shipping, etc? Is it, for example, most > efficient to ship from the US to Ghana? Or would it be cheaper > to ship from Canada or Mexico? I would suspect that it's not > always the "intuitive" choice. I just ship things (usually through US Mail), like small electronics parts, etc., myself (microcontroller programmers, IC's, parts, motherboards, CD-Roms, ...) so usually just Postal Service, Airmail or Global Priority Mail or Global Express Mail. US mail prices seem lower than most other countries, from what I know from talking to people, that doesn't mean much about the price of shipping a ton of computer hardware to Ghana though, IMO. I don't make much money doing this, it does get me out of the house to chat with the postal service cashiers at least <G> > And, we're talking about shipping technology -- are there any > problems with sending this to Ghana? This is, after all, your > field. A 5 pound package to Ghana costs $18.32, I asked http://ircalc.usps.gov/ to try to ship a 1 Lb. package to Cuba and was told "you can't get there from here", basically, so no sanctions from here to Ghana, far as I know. I will ask at the local post office, that's usually best (Seems the USPS web page doesn't display such "useless information", usually!) Some software is labelled as "not for shipment outside the US", of course, such as RSA code and so on. Something to consider (I'm unsure if Win95 contains this, I know the software that has such limits always mentions it on the box!) > -- Chuck Knight Mark -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.) -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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