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I'm running a disk utility to completely wipe the hard drives (14 hours remaining), then off my old laptop and desktop go to whoever will take them. I've had the desktop for about a decade (it's been through a few upgrades) and the laptop for a few years. They both have major issues (e.g., shutting down randomly, can't upgrade the RAM beyond 4GB), so I will be glad to be rid of them. Goodbye, old friends. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
From now on, it's all Mac all the time. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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AspDotNetDev wrote: From now on, it's all Mac all the time.
You must be getting desperate!
AspDotNetDev wrote: I'm running a disk utility to completely wipe the hard drives (14 hours
remaining),
Why bother, I just take the hardisk out, smash them bits/take them apart, recover the good bits, e.g. the really strong rare earth magnets, and just bin the rest.
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DaveAuld wrote: e.g. the really strong rare earth magnets,
Just thought I'd ask, but what do you do with them exactly?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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They make excellent fridge magnets or notice board magnets......
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And if you dismantle them, the hard disk platters make excellent coffee cup coasters.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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And frisbees!
And mirrors!
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Frisbees I'm not too sure about - they are more like blunt throwing stars! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Cool! 
I don't often talk about the lack of voting, but that deserves a big 5!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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DaveAuld wrote: Why bother, I just take the hardisk out, smash them bits/take them apart, recover the good bits
When I first read this, I interpreted "bits" to mean actual "bits" of data. I thought a joke was coming, then I got to the magnet part and it all suddenly made sense...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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AspDotNetDev wrote: From now on, it's all Mac all the time.
That's sort of me as well. My big laptop sits under the drawers of my desk; wifey's netbook sits in a draw and my desk is clear of everything except my iMac. It took a while to finally get Win7 installed with BootCamp but all things taken into account, it runs fast enough and I'm but a dual-boot away if I need to Macify for any reason. Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of the iMac but it does nothing for me at this time that I can't do under Win7 and I get the added bonus of using VS and RS.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I've had the desktop for about a decade (it's been through a few upgrades)
I finally retired the family desktop this fall. It started out in life as a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 256MB RAM and a 20G hard drive almost 15 years ago. When I first got it my internet access was via dialup at 56K, which seemed blindingly fast compared to the baud rates I was used to.
When the motherboard failed it was a Pentium III, 600 MHz with 640MG RAM and a little over 500G spread over three drives. The only part of the thing that was still original was the case. I'd replaced the motherboard/CPU once, RAM a couple times, hard drives several times, and so on. It was being used as a print server and for shared disk space.
I salvaged the hard drives and the case. I just don't have the heart to chuck the thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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AspDotNetDev wrote: From now on, it's all Mac all the time.
Going to the dark side eh?
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I did the same about 3 years ago.
No driver issues, no registry issues, no malware, no strange lock-ups, no blue screens, no regrets,
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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