Gutmann never recommended the full 35-pass wipe to anybody. The full corpus was a set of passes optimized for old MFM drives (but useless on other types), another set for old RLL drives (also useless on other types), and some randomness thrown in for good measure.
I expect the reason why the 35-pass wipe became popular was idiots who didn't take the time to understand his admittedly long paper about them.
Simple solution: limit how much TV your kids get to watch. Most marketing I remember towards kids when I was one was on TV.
We're only getting broadcast TV, which (except for PBS) eliminates most kiddie shows and hence kiddie advertising. DVDs will supply kids' shows worth watching.
He had command of a captured prize-ship at that age and rank. As such, his job was to get the ship to a friendly port in one piece and await further orders, and thus as an "expendable" junior officer he was chosen. He would have had experienced ratings for the hard stuff.
Getting enough free mem was solved for me with CONFIG.SYS boot menus. Remember those? I ended up having submenus 3 deep in places, each menu item to launch a particular game, because my father liked games but wasn't computer-literate enough to use DOS.
Each game had its own EMM386/HIMEM and TSR, etc. configuration. For example, I loaded nothing, not even memory managers, for DOOM and other 32-bit DOS games, but other games needed expanded memory and could use SMARTDrive because they needed only 2MB of RAM total.
Wiped with what? I've had someone get lots of data back from a hard drive that was slow-formatted with the WinXP installer, but we haven't tried this stunt with something that's been run through DBAN.
Essentially some of those patterns are specifically for obsolete MFM drives, and others are specifically for equally obsolete RLL drives. Nowadays you should just use random patterns, and even the DoD is fine with 7 passes.
If you're using the 32-bit version of Win7, try the WinXP NIC driver. That's what I had to do for my 3Com 3C905C, and it works OK. That may work for 64-bit Win7, but I don't know.
I've got nothing. She's one of the only two tenured people in her building, and the program her building serves has only been around for ten years, which is also as long as she's been a teacher.
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Gutmann never recommended the full 35-pass wipe to anybody. The full corpus was a set of passes optimized for old MFM drives (but useless on other types), another set for old RLL drives (also useless on other types), and some randomness thrown in for good measure.
I expect the reason why the 35-pass wipe became popular was idiots who didn't take the time to understand his admittedly long paper about them.
It's damned well sensationalistic, and that's completely orthogonal to whether or not the story itself is important.
I can't speak for you lot, but I'd rather not read a high-tech version of Fox News.
for when we vote stories down. "Stupid" kinda works, but IMO it's not specific enough.
This calls for trolling.
Also, VPN or SSH tunnels to a trusted machine.
Simple solution: limit how much TV your kids get to watch. Most marketing I remember towards kids when I was one was on TV.
We're only getting broadcast TV, which (except for PBS) eliminates most kiddie shows and hence kiddie advertising. DVDs will supply kids' shows worth watching.
Enough said, really.
He had command of a captured prize-ship at that age and rank. As such, his job was to get the ship to a friendly port in one piece and await further orders, and thus as an "expendable" junior officer he was chosen. He would have had experienced ratings for the hard stuff.
Getting enough free mem was solved for me with CONFIG.SYS boot menus. Remember those? I ended up having submenus 3 deep in places, each menu item to launch a particular game, because my father liked games but wasn't computer-literate enough to use DOS.
Each game had its own EMM386/HIMEM and TSR, etc. configuration. For example, I loaded nothing, not even memory managers, for DOOM and other 32-bit DOS games, but other games needed expanded memory and could use SMARTDrive because they needed only 2MB of RAM total.
Objection, m'lud! The Q8600 is not a "low-end CPU". It's not as high-end as a Q9600, but it's no Celeron, and it doesn't have VTX instructions.
The program was some commercial package for Windows. When I see my co-worker who did that I'll ask him.
We're just a Midwestern public university, no classified stuff here. Basically I screwed up and we had to try to recover someone's data.
No idea, but it's an interesting idea. I don't have the time to try it, though -- that recovery I mentioned took most of a day to run.
Wiped with what? I've had someone get lots of data back from a hard drive that was slow-formatted with the WinXP installer, but we haven't tried this stunt with something that's been run through DBAN.
Well, the Wall Street Journal is a good paper though
Give it time; Murdoch will eventually ruin it so it has about as much credibility as his other properties.
I think you're right, actually. Change that to say "DoD used to be fine with 7 passes".
Since you apparently don't know what you're talking about: the 35-pass wipe is bullshit, and even the author says so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method#Criticism
Essentially some of those patterns are specifically for obsolete MFM drives, and others are specifically for equally obsolete RLL drives. Nowadays you should just use random patterns, and even the DoD is fine with 7 passes.
This guy sounds like even more of an asshole than TdR, and that's an accomplishment. Plus he's a whiny little bitch when he doesn't get his way.
On the other hand, this is Debian. If any major distro is going to get into a pissing match on principle, it's them.
Their Cobol IDE and compiler was still pretty awful, though. I suffered through a class in '01 using their program.
It was nowhere near as nice as Visual Studio 6 or even Vim.
It's just been added to Cygwin recently, and it's a pretty nice console. Based on PuTTY's console.
It's supposed to kick you off every two hours starting then, and then it will hard-expire in June.
If you're using the 32-bit version of Win7, try the WinXP NIC driver. That's what I had to do for my 3Com 3C905C, and it works OK. That may work for 64-bit Win7, but I don't know.
When was that? Early '90s about the time of Windows 3.0?
No, I doubt that. I get annoyed at waiting for certain programs on my home E6300, 2GB, XP SP3 system.
This crappy old laptop was /fast/.
I've got nothing. She's one of the only two tenured people in her building, and the program her building serves has only been around for ten years, which is also as long as she's been a teacher.