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Thread ID: 63143	2005-10-31 00:34:00	Cheap computers/parts for sale	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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400487	2005-10-31 00:34:00	South Auckland. Some of you will know that an associate of mine has a bunch of computers that I went to look at to assess their value. Unfortunately, although they all have opsys installed, there's no original opsys disks, and they're all password protected in Windows. We reckoned it was gonna be too much hassle getting the opsys reinstalled. So they've decided to just flog em all off mostly as parts. They paid bugger all for them, so I reckon they'll go real cheap. I get nothing out of the deal, apart from one really good machine they gifted to me :thumbs: I'm just passing this info on as a favour to them and a favour to anyone here that wants some really cheap bits and pieces. They do have a good working Mac, some pretty nice big flat screen monitors, and everything I looked at worked fine. Anyway, the crowd is in South Auckland. If anyone wants the name and address of the outfit just PM me.	Greg (193)
400488	2005-10-31 00:36:00	why not just remove the passwords? and if needed hit em with rockxp to get the serial used on install.....	Metla (12)
400489	2005-10-31 00:46:00	why not just remove the passwords? I've been trying to figure out how to do that for days :( But anyway, sorry, please ignore my first post. I told the guys that I'd mentioned this on the forums here and they said they really couldn't be bothered - they just want the damn clutter outta their shop. So Yours Truly is getting the lot for $300 plus delivery :D TradeF1 might be seeing a lot of me in the near future! ;)	Greg (193)
400490	2005-10-31 02:19:00	always interested in 2nd hand parts :) happy trading.	tweak'e (69)
400491	2005-10-31 02:44:00	I've been trying to figure out how to do that for days :( Google for Offline password reset - It was reccomended to me in another thread here.	Greven (91)
400492	2005-10-31 02:56:00	Who sells password protected PCs? Surely if you had enough sense to password protect the things (at least sorta) then you has *something* you wanted to protect on there. Wouldn't you nuke the data before you let them out of your sight? Hell I run a 32 pass routine over *anything* that leaves my workplace, even via the bin (sometimes I give the HDDs to the angry young people to smash a bit as well, never can be too sure :D) Makes me wonder a bit about where these came from, and how legit the sellers were. Have you had a look at what sort of data was on them Greg? (just use a knoppix disc to have a wee peak) -Qyiet	qyiet (6730)
400493	2005-10-31 04:03:00	Who sells password protected PCs? Surely if you had enough sense to password protect the things (at least sorta) then you has *something* you wanted to protect on there. Wouldn't you nuke the data before you let them out of your sight? Hell I run a 32 pass routine over *anything* that leaves my workplace, even via the bin (sometimes I give the HDDs to the angry young people to smash a bit as well, never can be too sure :D) Makes me wonder a bit about where these came from, and how legit the sellers were. Have you had a look at what sort of data was on them Greg? (just use a knoppix disc to have a wee peak) -Qyiet I'm not remotely interested in what data's on the machines. Why would I be? As far as I know they were used purely for business purposes. I don't even care what type of business it was. The guys that got them are a reputable second hand dealership who had them chucked in when they bought the office furniture from a fella who shut down his company. The original seller was diagnosed with terminal cancer and instead of the fuss and bother of selling the business he just wanted to fade away from his work environment quickly and quietly. Re why were they password protected? It's obviously good office practice to have office computers protected so that each user doesn't have the wrong people within a busy office accessing their machine, eg the accountant, staff manager, boss etc.	Greg (193)
400494	2005-10-31 10:33:00	Around here, my family add a password as means of basic security to keep each other out of each others documents + chat logs. Of course, anybody with a bit of skill with Google and an afternoon to kill can learn it. Or somebody like myself can sit down at a PC and come back 5 minutes later with all the data/passwords you could need. I would give Greg the benefit of the doubt here, basic password protection is about all that it really is these days on a windows box. Hell, even on my Gentoo Desktop system I cant be fsck'd configuring an encrypted /home partition. It is on my server however :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
400495	2005-10-31 20:08:00	I'm not remotely interested in what data's on the machines. Why would I be?Just because you can't look, doesn’t it make you want to? :D Although, on second thoughts.. It may be like turning on thumbnails and looking in the internet cache... something you are really better off not doing on someone else’s machine. As far as I know they were used purely for business purposes. I don't even care what type of business it was. The guys that got them are a reputable second hand dealership who had them chucked in when they bought the office furniture from a fella who shut down his company. The original seller was diagnosed with terminal cancer and instead of the fuss and bother of selling the business he just wanted to fade away from his work environment quickly and quietly. Re why were they password protected? It's obviously good office practice to have office computers protected so that each user doesn't have the wrong people within a busy office accessing their machine, eg the accountant, staff manager, boss etc.Sorry, I meant it tongue in cheek. I never meant to that you were really receiving stolen goods. But that stuff should really get toasted good before it gets sold.. Especially if it was a business. There could be all sorts of random stuff on there that would be bad to fall into the wrong hands. Customer credit card information for instance. -Qyiet	qyiet (6730)
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