From what I gathered from your story, all 3 of you should be upset. At yourselves. The original user trusted someone else to destroy a hard drive with sensitive information instead of destroying it themselves. Your friend made two mistakes: trusting you, and not destroying the hard drive himself. And you chose to do the logical thing, but not the ethical thing. Honestly I might have made your mistake too.
Appreciate your honesty, but there was no mistake. If you followed you would have heard that my neighbor watched while I nuked it and was fine with that. The original owner who is 92 asked my neighbor to take it to the e-waste site for him but to destroy the HD first. He offered the PC to me and wanted to know that I would destroy the HD. I said instead of physically wasting it I will do a DOD wipe as the Air Force does. He agreed. After the wipe the HD was unallocated and ready to be put into service.
@@snapshooterrandy I get it. But you understood that the original owner wanted the drive destroyed and you chose not to do so. It would be one thing if it was your neighbor's drive, but this other guy has only the word of a stranger that his drive was wiped. Can't really blame him for his actions, he probably feels betrayed for trusting your neighbor.
@@pltatman1 The owner doesn't feel betrayed because he doesn't know his friend (my neighbor) gave it to anyone. To really "get it", you need to understand that the owner only wanted it destroyed, meaning rendered useless, which I did in front of my neighbor. I did a DOD Wipe using Darik's Boot and Nuke. My neighbor was more than OK with that. I then put the wiped and unallocated drive into service by installing a new operating system. The following day, when learning the PC had been given up, the owner's sister in law emailed my neighbor that he must physically destroy and return the hard drive. All of this was between my neighbor and the owner. Once it was in my possession and in use, I had no obligation to hand it back. You wouldn't give up *your* computer's OS to someone on demand, right? Agreed, my neighbor betrayed the original owner by giving it to me instead of taking it to the e-waste site. I don't chisel out hard drives and smash them, but did instead what the Air Force who I worked for required us to do with discarded computers, which is the DOD Wipe. To help my neighbor with his predicament, I provided another one he could pound the shit out of to satisfy his friend's sister in law by presenting her a demolished hard drive.
@@snapshooterrandy Okay, I guess I can't really argue with that. It's amusing that it was the sister-in-law that caused the ruckus, because that made it three degrees of separation.
Sorry you are using Windows 8.1. Hope you don't connect to the internet with an outdated OS that doesn't get updates. Not sure why you didn't DOD wipe the drive you gave back.
When I use 8.1 to connect, it's either sandboxed or on a virtual PC (Oracle Virtualbox). No worries. From the time I got the phone call that he needs to get back the HD to the knock on the door was 4 minutes. The HD was from a USB enclosure and had no personal files. All else was password protected. He took a hammer to it and completely destroyed it and I saw that he had. Thank you for watching and your comment. I appreciate it.
Five minute into it I knew it was clearly a "formula" type movie but at least the underlying metaphor was a good one and the actors did s solid job. The less you take it seriously the better it is. Clifton Collins was particularly outstanding. I don't recommend The Last Castle but I also don't resent giving up two hours of my lifespan to it either.
Oh! That UFC clip is really cool! You see things like that.....they rarely hate each other. Its business. Its sport. I imagine when one businessman ruthlessly sweeps another guy out of $millions$ and says "Its only business. Nothing personal" its woth this same vibe. They want the best for that other person, but they want to win in the competition they both agreed to
Thanks for the comment. It seems Linux Mint has a familiar feel, as if it’s another version of Windows. Ubuntu is something else altogether, but I like using it also. Since they are all installed on thumb drives and not the PC’s hard drive itself, I can switch around depending on the mood. You can check out Ubuntu Mate for what appears to be a hybrid…some of both Linux and Ubuntu.
I had a lot of troubles with thumb drives. I decided to just install completely to my computer, in the hard drive. Ubuntu feels like windows, more than I was expecting (I am brand new to Linux) so that's lucky for me!
You have one? Great! Can you hear the alarm when it sounds? I cannot and I know it would not wake me up if I had to use it, but I like it nevertheless.
That's one of the cooler little clocks that I've seen. I have fond memories of visiting various sections in the electronics and even general type stores to see what kinds of clever or quirky clock tech had come out next. Seems like they came in every shape and size and companies weren't afraid to put something out that really seemed bizarre but still very clever.
Thank you for your comment. This morning was spent searching for instructions, since I couldn't figure out how to disable the alarm or set the countdown timer. Brookstone had sold this clock with their logo. Then I found and downloaded its manual.
These are really great, this is the type of stuff I hunt for and upload to my channel. Love how minimal and lo-fi the recordings are, makes them feel very personal. I have always been a big fan of home-recorded music like this.
