white bins being taken away

Consumers will no longer be able to drop off their recyclable items at those familiar white bins in school or shopping center parking lots after June 30, the city announced today.

Signs notifying the public about the end of the community recycling program on Oahu will begin appearing on the bins this weekend by the city Department of Environmental Services.

Some drop-off bins may be taken away as early as June 15, the city said.

Ending the program is expected to save the city about $1.5 million annually.

The city said it is continuing to expand its curbside and condominium recycling efforts.

Meanwhile, Rolloffs Hawaii, which provides trash service to most of Oahu's public schools, intends to launch its own program at schools while Honolulu Disposal Service, which once held the city contract for the bins, expects to maintain the recycling bins at about 50 of the locations.

The community recycling program first began with 20 bins in 1990.

The city is discontinuing the program as more Oahu households turn to curbside recycling.

The city estimated about 70 percent of items that once went into the white bins are now going into curbside blue bins. A recent survey also showed 97 percent of households are now recycling at some level, with more than two-thirds placing 75 to 100 percent of their recyclables into blue carts, the city said.

About 160,000 Oahu homes are part of the curbside recycling program, and the city is intending to being expanding to the remaining 20,000 households this year.

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Well, if they take away Lanakila's bin, I guess I'll recycle via the blue bin.

connecting Vista and XP on network

For a long time, I had a Vista computer outside and an XP computer in my bedroom.

The problem was that my printer was connected to the computer in the bedroom.

After several months, something triggered me (probably just fiddling around) to change the workgroup name on the Vista computer to the same workgroup name on the XP computer.

And what do you know, I was able to see the other computer on the network and connect to the printer.

So that worked for a few weeks (or whenever) until yesterday. When I tried to print to the other computer, nothing happened. Then I noticed the computers no longer could see each other on the network.

The only thing I might have changed was that I had switch from my hub to a wireless router (for testing the wireless NIC on a computer I was working on), then I switched back to the hub.

When I do an IPCONFIG on each computer, I notice they have a different IP address for the default gateway.

I'm unable to ping the Vista computer IP address from the XP computer. But oddly, I'm able to ping the XP computer IP address (and its default gateway) from the Vista computer.

After I discovered the problem, I turned on network discovery from the Network and Sharing Center but that didn't solve the problem.

Don't know what gives?

So what I did was upload the file on skydrive and go to the XP computer to print the file. But then I saw no printer was installed on the XP computer. Print spooler service is not running it said.

Then I shut down and reboot and the printer is back. And was able to print.

I dunno. Maybe I'll try putting back the router to see what happens..

Maybe it's because I'm using a hub and the modem assigned different default gateways to each computer. But if I use the router, it'll assign the same default gateway to the router?

Sounds plausible now that I think about it..