May 26, 2006
More valuable advice
If you're going to be giving a computer to someone else, either for repair, or because you're selling it to them, it might be prudent not to have any personal or embarrassing data on the hard drive. See, for instance, the kiddie porn types who get caught when they take their machines to PC World for a checkup.
Or better yet, this guy who sold a broken laptop on ebay. What an interesting life he seems to lead...
Posted by James at 18:29
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