Hi there,
I just recovered this message - got burried in my spam folder.
Can I infer from the Nvidia comments that there are many problems with them ? Or are they just tricky but do work? If the latter then that might be a topic that could help users. 
Anyway I just wanted to acknowledge that I received your message Russell albeit a bit late...
Have fun in NZ,
Mike

On 20/12/14 20:25, Russell Coker wrote:

>
> Today at the beginners meeting I was asked about donations to the Hardware
> Library.  I think it's worth discussing the matter here.
>
> P4 systems and most parts from that era generally aren't useful, systems based
> around the AMD64 architecture are just too common.  AGP video cards aren't
> useful because they only fit older systems and people who still have such
> systems in use are usually using them as routers or something.  PCI Ethernet
> cards have some use, 2 port Ethernet cards are useful and 4 port Ethernet
> cards are VERY useful.
>
> RAM from systems of most ages is often useful, and when it isn't useful it's
> small and light enough that I'm happy to take donations and sort them out
> later.
>
> SATA disks are always useful, even the small ones.  Large IDE disks are
> useful, for IDE 300G is large.
>
> All PCIe cards are useful except for NVidia video cards.  As an aside if
> anyone wants an NVidia PCIe card then I'll bring some along.  I usually don't
> carry them around due to driver issues.
>
> I will bring the Hardware Library to the BBQ.  I know that you are the type of
> people who want that.  ;)
>