Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:30:02 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU Message-ID: <10710335547.20050120213002@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <41F0130C.1030900@locolomo.org> References: <200501200929.j0K9TXbl022106@mp.cs.niu.edu> <41EF92A2.30506@incubus.de> <20050120130838.K768@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <41EFB860.1030606@locolomo.org> <20050120145658.E2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <503540176.20050120155229@wanadoo.fr> <20050120101203.B45394@starfire.mn.org> <41F0130C.1030900@locolomo.org>
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Erik Norgaard writes: EN> Many larger companies have a fixed upgrading schedule, a pc lives 3 EN> years. One must wonder why. After all, they don't rebuild their offices every three years (although some seem to replace company cars fairly quickly--but mostly due to wear and tear, I presume, which is not much of a factor with PCs). EN> My consideration was that it might be cheaper to donate such pc's with EN> new harddrives rather than go through the trouble to overwrite the disk EN> to destroy data properly. If one can be confident that the drive will not be opened, it's probably safe to just wipe the drive with overwrites. Getting any but the most recent information off the drive usually requires opening it (although some drives allow calibration that might get around this). Unfortunately, most people will probably need Windows on the machine, and unless they happen to have an old copy of Windows around to install, an older PC may not be fast enough to suit them. Of course, if they want FreeBSD, no problem. -- Anthony
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