Steve, I believe that his concern was the salts and fats that are used in cooking and the fact that his composting is done in an urban setting and the resultant problems from pests like rats, mice and other undesirable critters. I don't think that there is a real problem with the inclusion of animal parts as they decompose on the surface in nature. We used to purchase free-range chickens from a local biological farmer and he added the feathers, heads and innards to his compost pile. Malcolm Beck mentions composting animals in his book "The Secret Life of Compost"(I know this should be underlined but I don't know how to do it), and actually advocates the composting of humans following the cessation of life rather than embalming with toxic chemicals. Beck contends that everything should be recycled including sewage sludge in order for agriculture to be sustainable. I see his point but I still have questions regarding heavy metals, chemicals including petroleum based cleaning agents and even medicines that can be in the waste stream. Using sewage sludge on my property still gives me the creeps although I've heard some informed folks advocate it's use. I've also read accounts of people fouling their land with it and the results are forever.

Probably a pentium 400 cpu so just a guess, could be old PC-100 or PC-133 Sdram. $15 - $25 for a new stick of 128mb or 256mb. Could be your local computer shop would have a pair of used 128mb sticks they might want $5 each for. Not much use for the older style memory now-adays. Some computers need the memory modules installed in pairs, some don't care if you just put one stick, or an even or odd number of sticks into it. Some motherboards have One, Two, Three, or Four slots to plug in memory. Some really old ones might have eight slots. Usually just either replace whats installed with larger MB's, or add a new memory stick or two. You'll have to look at the motherboard to see how many memory slots there are and what's installed now. You can get a good idea what is there at the below link but the results aren't always 100% accurate. You need to look see what's physically installed before making a purchase decision. Sometimes the memory scans might show 2 sticks installed yet there is only one, is the most often snafu. Memory for the most part just plugs in and out with usually a plastic or metal spring clip on one or both ends to hold it down. You need to be careful about body static killing them... I usually just barefoot it when working inside a computer case and lean a toe or arm on the case to make sure my body and the case has the same ground potentials. Here is a link that might be useful: Crucial Memory Scan

sorry Lynn we were posting at the same time and I did not see your question about open it online, I did get that add on to check it out but have not found it helpful for me, I also do not like to open anything with out scanning it so I am in the habit of downloading it to my pc then scanning with a right click using AV and malwarebytes. the advantage to open it online is if someone is using a pc that does not have any type of office programs on it or photo programs, with open it online you can use the options in it to for example open a document file using google apps there by not needing office or open office to view it. with pictures you can select to use their option of picnik to open the picture and do any editing you may need to do. So in those situations it can be very helpful. I have office programs on all of my computers so really don't need it for that and I have the picnik addon already in firefox and use it often so I have that base covered also. To find the options for that add on when you click on the tools list it is listed right there and if you put your cursor on it the options button is shown.

Hard drive is less than 1 year old. Heat is not an issue , the side of the case is off and my house is air conditioned set at 74 degrees. Tower is cleaned out no dust bunnies to see at all. Case was throughly cleaned out when son was here in Sept. due to hurricane evacuation from FL. KeysThis is what Belarc had to say about hard drives: 400.08 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 385.21 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H54L [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] Generic- Multi-Card USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2 ST3320620AS [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 1 ST380815AS [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 6QZ3A62Y, rev 3.AAD, SMART Status: Healthy