On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM -0400, Martha H Greenberg wrote: > > 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. 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
