Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM -0400, Martha H Greenberg wrote:I think they still do this- you can try amiram - at - jct.ac.il for a contact- he's very involved in these things.
My new job has huge piles of old hardware (mostly pc) which I need to evaulate and then dispose of what we don't want.
Can anyone recommend:
1) A company that buys old PCs and monitors? Or a tzedakah that would
take them? Failing that, someone we can pay to come and dispose of them
safely?
I know YAD-SARAH used to. I don't have a contact there, I volunteered
there a few times assembling PCs from donated parts some years ago.
yonah
I also know there are several list members (me included) that would love to buy specific parts if they are usable and not too old (that is, anything less than about 7 years old, at least for me). This will be, of course, much more work for you, but much more valuable, as I have a feeling the only commercial body you can do business with is a company that buys it for the metal.
2) A good place to buy machine room accessories (anything from machine
room tables/racks to cable ties)?
I never bought such things directly, others did it for me. If noone else here has opinions on this, I can find some.
3) A good FAT/NTFS disk/file recovery program?
I guess there are quite many. I worked with ntfsundelete from the linux-ntfs project, and managed to rescue some files, but not all. A tool I recently saw, that seems promising, is filesystem-agnostic - it works like 'file', with magic numbers. It's called 'Magic Rescue'.
4) A good PC hardware testing program (preferally self-booting)?
I know there are a few, but I never used one. I only run memtest86 for a few hours or days, and zcav to read the disk(s) (getting a speed measurment as well). I think there are a few CDs/floppies that have both. Search google for something like 'bootable CD memtest86'.
memtest users will be interested to know there is a fork called memtest86plus, which works on newer chipsets (well, at least one machine which did not work with memtest86 3.0 did work with it).
Martha Greenberg
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I guess your new job isn't in MIT, or you wouldn't send this to here. Is it so?
PS - I have long thought that we need an Israeli system/network admin
list. I'd love to have a place to ask these sort of questions, or other
admin questions not relating to Linux. Is anyone else interested?
I know this isn't too politically-correct, but unless it's getting
frequent, posting here is a good bet. For at least some of your questions
there are also forums in whatsup.co.il, but I think many people read only
linux-il (and many read only whatsup, OTOH).
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