For the average Joe, yes. But writing zeroes introduces a pattern, and high-tech equipment can pick up "leakage". Better to use if=/dev/urandom instead.
Still not enough to protect you from industrial tools, but enough to protect you from Joe Hacker who also has access to dd.
If they weren't encrypted, you wouldn't even need that. Boot up Knoppix and mount the disks and have it at. I used to use Knoppix as a cheap version of Ghost and data recovery tool for years when I was doing helldesk.
I used to have this 10 pound industrial rare earth magnet. This thing was so tough I could put it on an i-beam and suspend 300+ pounds from it. I put it on a monitor once and fucked it all up for eternity.
That's what I used to use to wipe my hard drives. A trip through the tumbler with that thing and GOOD FUCKING LUCK getting anything useful.
I think this has more to do with Steam/Valve's plan to get into set-top boxes. They make more money per seat if they ship their titles on Windows-less boxes.
Strategically, this makes sense. A little late for me - I went the OSX route.
Nobody, except the defense industry, gets paid for being fast but completely missing the target (results).
Accuracy first, then speed. Nearly all the order-of-magnitude speed-ups I've seen have all been related to working with collections (Big-O issues) and lock contention elimination. I suppose you can call those algorithmic rewrites "code efficiency".
Actually, converting from 32 bit to 64 bit alone will probably HURT you performance-wise. The memory paths get twice as wide, and caches hold 1/2 as much. If your ints/longs grow to 64bits you're simply fucked.
Moving Pro/ENGINEER from DEC OSF/1 32bit to 64bit cost us 10% in raw performance (this was back in 1994/1995). Same hardware, same OS (64-bit). Notably, we didn't ship many 64bit OSF systems (or MIPS/SGI or Solaris). Until 1997/1998 the systems just didn't exist for desktop usage, and by then Windows was dominating. SGI was probably the only platform where any of our customers HAD more than 4GB of RAM.
Why the FUCK don't they fix the goddamn memory leaks already?
Firefox is still the only browser I can open a 100 tabs in under 2GB of RAM for, but every morning it just eats more and more memory. Chrome just eats memory with it's "crash protection" scheme - but I like it better overall. Problem is I like to reserve my memory for my VMs, and not my browser.
You're right. Wrongful death shouldn't be a crime, civil or criminal. You were either responsible for someone's death, in which case you can be held accountable, or you were not. Being complicit in terms of having the means to stop a death is not necessarily actionable either. To compel me to do something is akin to slavery, which is outlawed in this country (but something the government can do at the point of a gun, wtf?).
Let's not forget the girl killed when she was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet in Boston in 2004 during the "riot" after the Red Sox won the World Series.
If you've never been in a position to observe someone invent X, then have Microsoft reps walk in and tell the Veeps that "Oh, we'll have Y-Clone of X in 6 months and throw in a 5% discount on your Server licenses" and have the purchase of X cancelled. Low and Behold, Y-Clone never gets made.
This was the perennial war Microsoft waged against Unix with their NT5 (I can't remember the fucking code name now). Cairo!
Easily solved with a QR code and a computer. Since they already have a computer iwth your picture and possibly cross referenced to finger print databases, I argue the QR or barcode is a far better solution than a RFID chip.
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but back before every desk, no matter how small, had a computer on it, the only computers I *EVER* saw were either in the school lab, or on the desk of mine and my friends.
A huge manufacturing operation my father worked for had VT100 terminals. My mom's nursing home had vt100 terminals.
My house had a Commodore 128 and a Tandy T1000 before computers started becoming ubiquitous.
The EPIC FAIL that was the Storm. That's the moment of failure. That they COULD turn the ship mid-course. But they turned it TOWARDS the whirlpool, not towards the beach with bikini-clad volleyball players.
Because it is. While ICS had a delay, the source *IS* now available to everyone. Whether you consider the Cloud to be Android might have merit, as SaaS Clouds typically are not "open" in the traditional sense.
There's an answer to that - switch to QuickBooks. My dad held on to Peach Tree Classic until he ran out of quarters and PCA started rolling over and obliterating his old data.
He wishes he switched to QuickBooks years ago. Make sure you get the Accountants version if you need Fixed Asset management.:-)
For all people pick on the Poles, who have they ever picked on? Christ, Germany ran roughshod over a country that brought horse-drawn cannons to it's defense.
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For the average Joe, yes. But writing zeroes introduces a pattern, and high-tech equipment can pick up "leakage". Better to use if=/dev/urandom instead.
Still not enough to protect you from industrial tools, but enough to protect you from Joe Hacker who also has access to dd.
If they weren't encrypted, you wouldn't even need that. Boot up Knoppix and mount the disks and have it at. I used to use Knoppix as a cheap version of Ghost and data recovery tool for years when I was doing helldesk.
I used to have this 10 pound industrial rare earth magnet. This thing was so tough I could put it on an i-beam and suspend 300+ pounds from it. I put it on a monitor once and fucked it all up for eternity.
That's what I used to use to wipe my hard drives. A trip through the tumbler with that thing and GOOD FUCKING LUCK getting anything useful.
Now I just use thermite and turn it into slag.
This is why I keep a small quantity of thermite handy. The only proper disposal for my hard drives is complete and utter destruction.
I think this has more to do with Steam/Valve's plan to get into set-top boxes. They make more money per seat if they ship their titles on Windows-less boxes.
Strategically, this makes sense. A little late for me - I went the OSX route.
Nobody, except the defense industry, gets paid for being fast but completely missing the target (results).
Accuracy first, then speed. Nearly all the order-of-magnitude speed-ups I've seen have all been related to working with collections (Big-O issues) and lock contention elimination. I suppose you can call those algorithmic rewrites "code efficiency".
Actually, converting from 32 bit to 64 bit alone will probably HURT you performance-wise. The memory paths get twice as wide, and caches hold 1/2 as much. If your ints/longs grow to 64bits you're simply fucked.
Moving Pro/ENGINEER from DEC OSF/1 32bit to 64bit cost us 10% in raw performance (this was back in 1994/1995). Same hardware, same OS (64-bit). Notably, we didn't ship many 64bit OSF systems (or MIPS/SGI or Solaris). Until 1997/1998 the systems just didn't exist for desktop usage, and by then Windows was dominating. SGI was probably the only platform where any of our customers HAD more than 4GB of RAM.
Why the FUCK don't they fix the goddamn memory leaks already?
Firefox is still the only browser I can open a 100 tabs in under 2GB of RAM for, but every morning it just eats more and more memory. Chrome just eats memory with it's "crash protection" scheme - but I like it better overall. Problem is I like to reserve my memory for my VMs, and not my browser.
You're right. Wrongful death shouldn't be a crime, civil or criminal. You were either responsible for someone's death, in which case you can be held accountable, or you were not. Being complicit in terms of having the means to stop a death is not necessarily actionable either. To compel me to do something is akin to slavery, which is outlawed in this country (but something the government can do at the point of a gun, wtf?).
Let's not forget the girl killed when she was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet in Boston in 2004 during the "riot" after the Red Sox won the World Series.
Some people don't want to be an IBM or a Microsoft.
Basically anyone who's not a narcissist.
Wasn't this a Law & Order episode?
If you've never been in a position to observe someone invent X, then have Microsoft reps walk in and tell the Veeps that "Oh, we'll have Y-Clone of X in 6 months and throw in a 5% discount on your Server licenses" and have the purchase of X cancelled. Low and Behold, Y-Clone never gets made.
This was the perennial war Microsoft waged against Unix with their NT5 (I can't remember the fucking code name now). Cairo!
Sadly you're right. But I still that the right to travel and the right to privacy are firmly protected by the 9th Amendment.
Sadly still, precious few people have challenged said rights in such a fashion.
Easily solved with a QR code and a computer. Since they already have a computer iwth your picture and possibly cross referenced to finger print databases, I argue the QR or barcode is a far better solution than a RFID chip.
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but back before every desk, no matter how small, had a computer on it, the only computers I *EVER* saw were either in the school lab, or on the desk of mine and my friends.
A huge manufacturing operation my father worked for had VT100 terminals. My mom's nursing home had vt100 terminals.
My house had a Commodore 128 and a Tandy T1000 before computers started becoming ubiquitous.
They have video of all the orgies with the hookers and blow.
By the BALLS man!
The EPIC FAIL that was the Storm. That's the moment of failure. That they COULD turn the ship mid-course. But they turned it TOWARDS the whirlpool, not towards the beach with bikini-clad volleyball players.
Sad.
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however there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility.
Because it is. While ICS had a delay, the source *IS* now available to everyone. Whether you consider the Cloud to be Android might have merit, as SaaS Clouds typically are not "open" in the traditional sense.
There's an answer to that - switch to QuickBooks. My dad held on to Peach Tree Classic until he ran out of quarters and PCA started rolling over and obliterating his old data.
:-)
He wishes he switched to QuickBooks years ago. Make sure you get the Accountants version if you need Fixed Asset management.
Does it let me have a single unified namespace and softlinks to network resources?
Fail.
Why is windows the only remaining hold-out on this archaic drive-letter bullshit?!
Where does one get a database like that?
I have a whole shelf full. I'm thinking a glass of Cardhu tonight will hit the spot!
For all people pick on the Poles, who have they ever picked on? Christ, Germany ran roughshod over a country that brought horse-drawn cannons to it's defense.