Be gentle with the power button. It was a common failure on those cases.

candle_86 wrote:

Trank wrote:

"very interesting pictures". LMAO. What should i say? Great find?

Yes, sadly i had to delete them, the wife said it wouldn't be right to archive them 🤣

Did I miss something?

Jade Falcon wrote:

candle_86 wrote:

Trank wrote:

"very interesting pictures". LMAO. What should i say? Great find?

Yes, sadly i had to delete them, the wife said it wouldn't be right to archive them 🤣

Did I miss something?

there was naked photos of an attractive woman in what looked like her 40's on this machine, quality was home made pictures. Wife wouldn't let me keep 🤣

I always liked the look of those cases when they came out in the late 90's. To me, Gateway and Dell of that era had a similar look.

candle_86 wrote:

there was naked photos of an attractive woman in what looked like her 40's on this machine, quality was home made pictures. Wife wouldn't let me keep 🤣

Your wife jealous of some 40 something woman your never meet? 🤣

Probably better you don't keep stuff like that, it could make trouble. I help clean out old abandoned storage units and find smut like that a lot, so much so lately that I just scrap any hdd I find if it's not anything important. I don't want someone else home made smut and the photos they print off are bad enough. Seems people where live keep to them selves in ways I don't want to know... Living in a very small town makes it very awkward at times too. 😵

I have a friend who found and reported child porn while doing computer repair work. You never know what you might find.

gdjacobs wrote:

I have a friend who found and reported child porn while doing computer repair work. You never know what you might find.

Hence one reason why I recycle hdd's now. You just never know what's on there. It was not always this way, I remember when the only things on old computers that should not be was family photos and tax stuff and maybe a saved password or two. Now adays there are a lot of people doing all manner of sick stuff with them. That and saving junk they should not, posting things they shouldn't and what not. I even seen computers abandoned full of saved current passwords these days. Truly said 😢 And don't get me started on the malware, I don't even need to run a scan to know there often full of it.

I find old abandoned computers all the time and in the last 5 years I believe I only had one that was clean and usable and not full of junk.

If there's any doubt, I DBAN them.

gdjacobs wrote:

If there's any doubt, I DBAN them.

true, but I rather melt the hdd for scrap, there is a lot of aluminum in old hdd's. I could be wrong, but doesn't dban not over write sectors marked as bad or something? I never really used it before so I would not know.

DBAN won't touch sectors that are blocked out by the drive firmware, but it does bit bang everything else. The big problem is SSDs as they defer overwriting.

I had to look into wiping ssd's for work aways back.
I found that filling a ssd and using the ata secure erase command is your best bet without kill this drive.
Drives are cheap nowadays, may as well just get a new one if it's nothing important and kill the old one to be safe.

Or better yet don't put stuff on them that should not be. I have that problem with family a lot. there is no reason they need 500 cat photos or 5k expired coupons and half a dozen tool bars. Of course that's different then home made nude photos. But still, if people did not muck up there computers people like us would not have to wipe them.

I have to wipe the system my mother uses at least one a mount, and she even gets malware on her iPhone and apple computer she has now. Why just the other day her apple was apart of a botnet. At least I have not had to wipe apple computer yet. seems like anything she uses gets malware on it.

I like looking through hard drives of old computers, might find gold

Jade Falcon wrote:

Or better yet don't put stuff on them that should not be. I have that problem with family a lot. there is no reason they need 500 cat photos or 5k expired coupons and half a dozen tool bars. Of course that's different then home made nude photos. But still, if people did not muck up there computers people like us would not have to wipe them.

This was partly what UAC was supposed to fix, but the logic is massively flawed. Where as beforehand people would click on "OK" to whatever pop up window now they click OK to both the pop up AND the UAC windows not even reading what its saying. In a way I don't blame them, Windows and version programs are always asking questions now, Do you want to update this, scan that, Even IE constantly asks me to click here to disable addons just cause my ad blocker takes a few seconds longer to load then the threshold. If I have said no once is should remember.

That's said some people just turn their brain off with computers, If browsing to a site asks to download something or "make a change to your computer" maybe think why? If someone called out of the blue and said we need to change your ?? contract, or gas meter, or anything I'd be asking why?

chinny22 wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

Or better yet don't put stuff on them that should not be. I have that problem with family a lot. there is no reason they need 500 cat photos or 5k expired coupons and half a dozen tool bars. Of course that's different then home made nude photos. But still, if people did not muck up there computers people like us would not have to wipe them.

This was partly what UAC was supposed to fix, but the logic is massively flawed. Where as beforehand people would click on "OK" to whatever pop up window now they click OK to both the pop up AND the UAC windows not even reading what its saying. In a way I don't blame them, Windows and version programs are always asking questions now, Do you want to update this, scan that, Even IE constantly asks me to click here to disable addons just cause my ad blocker takes a few seconds longer to load then the threshold. If I have said no once is should remember.

That's said some people just turn their brain off with computers, If browsing to a site asks to download something or "make a change to your computer" maybe think why? If someone called out of the blue and said we need to change your ?? contract, or gas meter, or anything I'd be asking why?

That's why social engineering is so successful. People for the most part are naturally trusting. Skepticism is learned through negative experiences. At least it should be. Some people surprise me when they get bit over and over. 😲

clueless1 wrote:

chinny22 wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

Or better yet don't put stuff on them that should not be. I have that problem with family a lot. there is no reason they need 500 cat photos or 5k expired coupons and half a dozen tool bars. Of course that's different then home made nude photos. But still, if people did not muck up there computers people like us would not have to wipe them.

This was partly what UAC was supposed to fix, but the logic is massively flawed. Where as beforehand people would click on "OK" to whatever pop up window now they click OK to both the pop up AND the UAC windows not even reading what its saying. In a way I don't blame them, Windows and version programs are always asking questions now, Do you want to update this, scan that, Even IE constantly asks me to click here to disable addons just cause my ad blocker takes a few seconds longer to load then the threshold. If I have said no once is should remember.

That's said some people just turn their brain off with computers, If browsing to a site asks to download something or "make a change to your computer" maybe think why? If someone called out of the blue and said we need to change your ?? contract, or gas meter, or anything I'd be asking why?

That's why social engineering is so successful. People for the most part are naturally trusting. Skepticism is learned through negative experiences. At least it should be. Some people surprise me when they get bit over and over. 😲

explain me then, i was born as a nutrual, i dis trust always but I want to think people if given the right circumstances can be good, but I accept most are bad. I also don't expect failure but I don't expect success. Was born that way according to my parents as a baby i wouldn't trust anything or anyone.

candle_86 wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

chinny22 wrote:

This was partly what UAC was supposed to fix, but the logic is massively flawed. Where as beforehand people would click on "OK" to whatever pop up window now they click OK to both the pop up AND the UAC windows not even reading what its saying. In a way I don't blame them, Windows and version programs are always asking questions now, Do you want to update this, scan that, Even IE constantly asks me to click here to disable addons just cause my ad blocker takes a few seconds longer to load then the threshold. If I have said no once is should remember.

That's said some people just turn their brain off with computers, If browsing to a site asks to download something or "make a change to your computer" maybe think why? If someone called out of the blue and said we need to change your ?? contract, or gas meter, or anything I'd be asking why?

That's why social engineering is so successful. People for the most part are naturally trusting. Skepticism is learned through negative experiences. At least it should be. Some people surprise me when they get bit over and over. 😲

explain me then, i was born as a nutrual, i dis trust always but I want to think people if given the right circumstances can be good, but I accept most are bad. I also don't expect failure but I don't expect success. Was born that way according to my parents as a baby i wouldn't trust anything or anyone.

I did say "People for the most part are naturally trusting." But maybe even that is over-generalizing. 😀

I don't trust your statement. 😈

Jade Falcon wrote:

I don't trust your statement. 😈

Hah!

How about if I give you chocolate?

Nice article.

And no jokeing, I don't like chocolate, it burns my mouth.

Ok so this stinks, the GeforceFX 5200 doesn't work at all, I paid 4 dollars no big loss, but now my Quadro2 MXR died, leaving me these choices for Video cards that are compatible

Rage 128 Pro All in Wonder
Rage 3d
Number Nine Revolution IV
Voodoo Banshee

I'm guessing the Rage 128 is the fastest of the bunch, but man was I looking forward to good gaming preformance