We suggest taking it out to the parking lot and dousing it in gasoline. Here's some matches.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

You thought 10K in Ad-aware was bad?

A friend of mine who works at the local CompUSA told me the tale of a machine that finally locked up somewhere around 400,000.

And if that's not scary enough, how about a 90-car pileup?

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[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

One call to modern equipment rental later, they bring you a cute 5-ton log splitter. For a computer HDD, these work just fine, especially if the HDD is placed on the splitter correctly.

one word

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

thermite


(the drive will die in a firey burst - as it should)

Re: one word

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Yes, well. Thermite would be nice, but there's that matter of it melting through the drive, through the bench, through the computers UNDER the bench, through the shelf they're on, and through the floor.

There's also the whole "OSHA" thing ...

I'd prefer to keep it simple, and just crush the drive.

Re: one word

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

That is why you take care of it outside, off of company property. No OSHA bullshit, no damage to company property.

Geez, do we have to teach you kids everything???? ;)

Re: one word

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Why buy thermite when Styrofoam + gasoline = napalm?

Re: one word

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

the noise Styrofoam makes rubbing together drives me insane; and you need a lot of napalm to melt hard drives.

And who said anything about purchasing thermite? ;)