Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF

As part of our 10-Year anniversary, we've decided to have a little charity auction, with the cash going to the EFF. The items currently up for bidding are 'Triton' (the big old tower case from the first x86 used to host Slashdot from Feb 11 1998 through much of 1999... picture is attached to the story if you're curious). A low numbered UID (3 or maybe 2 digits!) so you can win those stupid low UID pissing match threads. Your URL plugged in the story where we announce the auction winners. Oh the fame! The Slashdot Grab Bag: We're putting stuff around the office in a box- random t-shirts, hats, even an old Nokia NGage. The mystery box could contain anything that we stuff in the box before the contest ends... there's a picture of what we have so far attached. A copy of the watchmen trade paperback singed in Hemos's 1999 house fire. An @slashdot.org email alias (tasteful names only ;) The auctions will be running for like 10 days, and we'll post the results when they come up.

Triton currently has a couple of P2s in it that may or may not work, as well as a number of SCSI controllers that may or may not work. It also has a 300W power supply that may or may not work. Remember, you are donating to charity here... but these guts have been sitting in a closet for probably 5 years now. We don't have any idea what works.... the machine was originally hosted in our Holland office, but eventually was shipped to California for colocation. While there it got its guts replaced from dual P133s to dual P2s. After that, it flew back to Holland where it was a file server for a few years until we retired it

The grab box will at least contain some shirts. We have a crate of shirts- some given to us by random companies, others are mis-prints of various corporate things... I think we have some static stickers and hats... but there's no promises here... again... you're making a donation to a worthy charity here! The picture shows you some things that will probably be in the box including Nate's Nokia ngage, a collection of hats... we'll throw in a few of the 10-year anniversary t-shirts as well...

We're willing to sign the things if you think that makes it worth donating more. Or more likely not, if you think it's worth more without our childish scribblings on it. And bid high folks! This is for the EFF after all...

Re:One other question

[sherpajohn]

e-Bay - all the items in the article are links to the e-Bay auction for that item. Low UID is already over $350(US). Wow.

Shipping

[phatscum]

Will you ship outside the US?

Re:Just one question

[ScuttleMonkey]

Hah, you make a good point.

To the best of our knowledge none of these shirts have been worn and are clean and free of debris. Barring any errant burglars who broke in to wear our t-shirts of course.

Re:Shipping

[ScuttleMonkey]

Yes, we will ship outside the US with some obvious exceptions.

If deeppenguin asks us to ship the Triton case to the South Pole we might not be able to get corporate to cover the bill. :)

With any specific questions feel free to contact us at anniversary@slashdot dot org.

Re:Paying for slashvertisements?

[paeanblack]

The case looks like a Supermicro SC750
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1298/sc750a.html [arstechnica.com]

It's a nice case. Mine recently got its guts replaced for the umpteenth time in the past decade; it still houses my primary workstation. At (currently) $41 with free shipping, that's not a bad deal for a solid chassis.

Re:Low UID?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually not. It's 666. [slashdot.org]

Re:Low UID?

[rodent]

I guess I had better post to keep mine off the list.
Although I do read /. each and every day.

Re:No shipping outside the US?

[ScuttleMonkey]

That statement was mainly to protect us against someone from crazy-mccrazytown on the moon from buying the item and sticking us with the shipping costs.

We will more than likely ship outside the US, just contact us directly to work out the details and get it cleared.

Re:FYI: Tax Deductions on Charity Auctions

[ScuttleMonkey]

Several bidders have written to ask about the charitable donation credit thing.

Unfortunately, the way that MissionFish.org (eBay's charitable works branch) handles the tax credit is all done auto-magically. So, when I asked if we could pass the tax credit on to the winner of the bid giving them both the item and the ability to do the tax write-off I was given the big "not a chance" answer. :(

So we greatly appreciate your bids, as I'm sure the EFF will as well, but we are unable to pass the tax credit on to the winner of the bid.

Funny

[MadJo]

Triton is apparently worth less than a /. Swag package.

As of this writing, the scores are as follows:
2000 Low /. UID
760 Yourname @ /. dot org
457 Plug your url
305 /. Swag Package
252 Triton
51 The Watchmen