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The capacitor plague and wasted hardware

After being involved in computers for around 15 years now, every once in a while I experience one common occurrence and that is the failing of hardware. It's been a few weeks since I had a failed disk. It's been this week that I realized that three monitors died at our office in the last few years. Hardware seems to be dieing more recently than not. It's a shame a lot of components seem to be usable, but are usually being discarded along with perfectly functioning hardware.
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