be sure to thoroughly clean off any data that might on there. My mother bought a used laptop once and we found addresses and meeting notes on there.
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msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 10:57:03 am PST #23501 of 25496
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DCJensen - Jan 02, 2014 10:59:57 am PST #23502 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
Unless you have incredibly sensitive data, reinstalling OSX and telling it to repartition and reformat should be enough.
beekaytee - Jan 02, 2014 11:00:07 am PST #23503 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant
Okay. I have a couple of days before the e-cycling. I'll post a craigslist ad this evening and see if I get any bites.
And, msbelle...so THAT. The mini I'm coming to you on now had a bunch of private information on it, even though the family thought they'd cleaned it.
One of the towers isn't booting, so that one may have to go unclean, but the other has been stripped already.
Rob - Jan 02, 2014 11:44:01 am PST #23504 of 25496
When I can't get a computer to boot to reformat before recycling I'll often just pull the drive out and snip the connection between the drive controller board and the drive before recycling the parts separately.
NoiseDesign - Jan 02, 2014 1:45:03 pm PST #23505 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
You may get a little money out of the G5 towers but there just isn't a lot of value left in them any more. They can't run anything approaching a recent OS and recent software won't run on them.
I wouldn't expect more than $75 out of them.
beekaytee - Jan 02, 2014 2:56:45 pm PST #23506 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant
I'm leaning in the direction of just letting them go. The friend who is taking me to the recycling event is strong and willing to carry them off...they are quite heavy!
Rob, that is a terrific idea, thank you! I can totally snip the wires.
Tom Scola - Jan 06, 2014 4:42:34 am PST #23507 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I need a new TV, but it looks like I'm going to wait until the fall to get one.
Gris - Jan 06, 2014 6:30:21 am PST #23508 of 25496
Hey. New board.
The Roku is definitely a much better interface than my Samsung Smart TV.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2014 7:06:24 am PST #23509 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Does anyone have a way to make Amazon Prime Video not suck? Whenever I try to watch anything via Amazon on a wireless connection, it's a disaster. The app crashes constantly and can't seem to stay connected to wifi for more than a few minutes at a time.
Signed,
Got accidentally hooked on Betas but can't watch it on my iPad #dontjudgeme
sj - Jan 06, 2014 7:12:08 am PST #23510 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jessica, do you have a blu-ray player or another device that allows you to watch amazon on your TV? I've had pretty good luck with watching amazon that way.