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[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Anyone ever riddled through HP's trash?

I simply love their concept cases and mobos, ram, and test chips.

Scored quite a few dual-core 3.73ghz processors, 200+ chips of ram, and concept computers. Not to mention the most awesome raid array controller board ever. (Can support 16 drives.)

(I don't take the hard drives for respecting their legal reasons to privacy.)

(My friend's a trashman/driver, and picks up for HP.)

Comments

[omg-teh-funnay.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. I need to find the best places to go high-tech dumpster diving, though it's VERY illegal to just dump technology equipment in this area. Special disposal for toxic components, lack of biodegradability, things like that.

But still. The wife and I have scored some GREAT furniture and things from dumpster scores.

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

yeah, i just ripped off serials.

I did score a dozen wifi/bluetooth mice/keyboards sets when working for Office Depot.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

who want microsoft software anyway?

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Well if you can't afford OpenOffice, sometimes you just have to make do.

[hamsterhotep.livejournal.com]

Nice.

Just....nice.

[mynameisnotreal.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous.

[tothwolf.livejournal.com]

Uhm...should you even be posting this? They are supposed to be "recycling" all that stuff ;)

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

...and that's how they recycle!

lots of early Silicon Valley companies were founded by the spoils from HP dumpster dives.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Would the hard drives be more secure if you took them and wiped them, or if they were left for data-scroungers?

[ximinez]

That's what I was thinking.

[vxo.livejournal.com]

I used to get some fun stuff from CompUSSR's dumpster whenever they remodelled the store (about every two years - no wonder the company bled out from every orfice.)

I will take HDDs, but I fire a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=32768 at them. (This isn't quite as thorough as DBAN, but it would lock out all *casual* attempts to read back previous data; this is to say, any that do not involve Very Expensive gear.)

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Lazy. /dev/urandom is a lot more thorough. ^_^

(though I'll note that FreeBSD's rng is a LOT faster than Linux's - I was pretty appalled the first time I used /dev/random under Linux... and only slightly less so when I discovered /dev/urandom.)