[Novalug] Fwd: Re: meetings

[jerry w]

two possible hits,
remembering this group is sometimes
arcane

http://www.dban.org
Darik's Boot and Nuke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC
HomeTheatrePC

for the acronym (and otherwise) impaired

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
> Bonnie,
>
> Suggest you use DBAN prior to donating those drives!!!
>
> Jay
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, John Franklin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:41, Rich Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have an HTPC that can be built... I just have not made the time to do
>>>> so......
>>>
>>> I'm looking for some spare free-to-good-home hardware to build an HTPC
>>> for a friend.  It doesn't have to be top-of-the-line, and I'm willing to
>>> do some minor upgrades to make it work well as an HTPC, like a new video
>>> card or case.
>>>
>>> Maybe we can feature some HTPC builds at an installfest?
>>
>> don't know if this will help but I just replaced the guts of my 2002
>> tower with a new motherboard, memory, etc and I find that now i have an
>> excess of plain old ide drives. the new machine only has one ide bus the
>> rest is sata.
>>
>> would any ide drives be of use to you?
>>
>> i also have some older memory that came out of the 2002 machine and a
>> pretty nice heat sink and some case fans. either the mother board or the
>> cpu went on the old machine - was not worth trouble shooting.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> jf
>>
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Jerry W