Submitted by FERG on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 14:39
Are you planning to recycle, donate, gift, or sell your computer? Before you do this, you should think about the data on your hard drive. There is lots of personal information on your drive that could be used in a harmful way if it were to fall into the wrong hands.
A colleague of mine has purchased numerous hard drives off of eBay and found data on them when he installed them. There are man people who purchase used hard drives with the express purpose of gathering data from them. So what is one to do?
You have a few options.
Submitted by FERG on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 20:40
So you've got a new cell phone, computer, or other new piece of swell new technology. What do you do with the old one? Here's some ideas. Repurpose Computer (Desktop or laptop) * Turn it into a home file server - There are several ways to do this. You can leave it running Windows and setup file sharing and use it as a place to store backup files. * Run Linux. If you've had an urge to do some tinkering around with something different, try installing the open source operating system, Linux. There are plenty of easy to install distributions that can bring new life back to old computers.
