Whats On Your Hard Disk
R E Cycler | 19.06.2007 20:24
Thats not the end of the story of the recycling of hard disks.
I continued in this new and ,not over profitable occupation for some more years.And i found more sources of them.One was the local skips.For some reason,known only to those who dump them.A lot of people dump nearly new pc's.When i first cottoned on to this those working in such places had no re-cycling proceedure.So i was on a boom time.Then they noticed that i took them and took the time to see why.So i had to pay a small,illegal fee.That was even better.I now had them making sure all pc stuff was put to one side.So i got the lot,anything in the crusher was pulled out for me.And i never ever once said a word.
Then one day i got some stuff from them with some software abandonned by ............police.with some papers in .txt form saying why."Too complicated for officers to understand".Being a nosey swine i could not resist looking.I won't name the company,and they were good at there job,joe plod was'nt.
But it was forensic recovery software.It was actually very simple to use.But at the time,in my area not many had pc's never mind being savvy.I think i put more cheap computers about than any aid agency.(sorry bout that ownsong)Naturally i began to use said software on all the computers i got that day.Stupid of them to throw away the pc with the software on it.But they were not stupid enough to throw away the machine with any results,or attempts..Then on one hard disk i came across some realy nasty stuff.It was impossible for me to connect the computer to anyone.So i began to use it on all of the hard disks of the computers i still had.I had about 350 disks.I found the same or similar stuff on about 21 disks.I had no way of looking back to dates or times.Maybe this is why people throw away what are fairly new pc's.
I still ocationally go and get some.Now it's pentium 4's.Yes with top of the range graphic cards,in the skip.But i don't even bother to unformat the drives.I just boot and nuke them,the best thing. and sell em on at a price your average unemployed single mum with a demanding 10 year old for a fast games computer can pay.60 quid.
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Very cool because with this
19.06.2007 20:42
Gotta be a GNU/Linux or a *BSD - rock on, d00d!!
I'm gobsmacked
No
19.06.2007 22:48
R E Cycler
lets hear it for the kids
20.06.2007 06:52
"with a demanding 10 year old for a fast games computer"
I hate the whole, shut the f~*k up and sit in front of the computer so I dont have to bother with you attitude.
No probs with the cheap PCs to low waged but to 'promote' them as a 'fast games computer' just aint healthy
jammy
Will you share, Recycler?
20.06.2007 11:43
URLs please ;-/
And what's so great about making discs for Microsoft OS's when there's now Ubuntu Linux that'll work on most machines except IBMs (despite them 'making the T series laptops especially for Linux') ?
www.ubuntu.com - great philosophy, great 'community', easy install (point n click + a bit of cut and paste from their website), fast and non-prying OS - and best of all, it just goes on the net - no mess, no round the houses dialogue boxes like M$, which seems to bury the vital components deeper with each release.
Bon^Chance
Jammy. Bon Chance.
20.06.2007 13:28
Bon Chance..Don't have the url for the disk wipe but if you scroogle "Dariks boot and nuke".i'm sure you will find it.Autonuke command takes about 30 minutes on a 20 gig disk.But some commands can take weeks.So read the .txt file.Glad you mentioned Linux.I have been testing some.I don't like Ubuntu.But Debian and knoppix are something i will be putting on some computers.
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