eBay: backing up your hardware?
Is it a sign of shifting consumor culture or something? I normally have exactly zero money to spend on new computer hardware, so I have an extreme culture of ‘make do and mend’. (I’ll be posting some notes on hacking a 486 laptop sometime soon)
But, yesterday I gave up searching for another ethernet cable and bought one on eBay for ?1.68, including shipping. In retrospect, it would have been worth doing that a long time ago, since I’ve probably wasted 2 or more hours (and annoyed my wife) looking for an item that costs about 10 mins wages.
It’s a bit like relying on the web to backup your software, or the ‘Kazaa backup service’ as it’s known. 
I’ve got millions of cables in a bag carefully packed away somewhere, and I shall no doubt find them now. Sometimes its just easier to give up fixing something, and restore from backup.
Posted by akaDruid on 26 Sep 2005 at 12:09 pm
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