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Wow, that means that you did have very secret data if you had to go to RCMP/DoD and probably NSA methods to wipe the system.
Anyways, 64MB of RAM??? That system must have been really old if it only had 64MB of RAM. xboxrulz
Hey I'm still holding on to my old ram - SIMM(s). They are good for the times when you come across an old laser printer. You can upgrade the memory. Just hang on to them, I'm sure someone out there will need them.
Like the old LaserJet Printers... HP i believe. I remember them from back in my high school days. Also some Apple Laserwriters (the laser printers) as support adding SIMM(s). If you've ever asked someone who managed a computer lab with network laser printers or someone who ran a print shop back in the day, they'll tell you the same.
QUOTE(levimage @ Jul 16 2008, 04:06 PM)  Like the old LaserJet Printers... HP i believe. I remember them from back in my high school days. Also some Apple Laserwriters (the laser printers) as support adding SIMM(s). If you've ever asked someone who managed a computer lab with network laser printers or someone who ran a print shop back in the day, they'll tell you the same. You might have to update the firmware on the NIC enabled printers for the printer to recognize the new amount of ram. Then upload the fonts you most commonly use.
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When I wipe hard drives, I use a live linux cd/floppy (a linux floppie should work as most of them will have dd and the device tree) and do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/<hard drive> then collow it with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<hard drive>, I do that a couple of times esp if I am setting up a encrypted partition, that way if they try to look at the drive down some layers all they see is garbage or null bytes. QUOTE(Gr33nN1nj4 @ Aug 17 2008, 05:33 PM) (on topic of OP) When I wipe hard drives, I use a live linux cd/floppy (a linux floppie should work as most of them will have dd and the device tree) and do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/<hard drive> then collow it with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<hard drive>, I do that a couple of times esp if I am setting up a encrypted partition, that way if they try to look at the drive down some layers all they see is garbage or null bytes. I'm sorry but that is much too confusing. Perhaps you could explain that more? I'm not trying to encrypt a partition here, and is the method you mentioned really secure? First run 000000000000 2nd run 4gv3h904hgw4 4th run 000000000000 3rd run 32r98hg43g[34 and so forth, the reason i brought up encryption is that is one of the main causes people zero out their hard drive. but beware this method takes a while to run then just running it once, which the NSA has said 32 times is best as most NON government software can't read that far down and they actually have to take the drive to the labs and take them apart to read that far .but the commands again (32times in 1 shot if i can recall my bash scripting) NOTE: DO NOT RUN THIS IT WILL WIPE OUT YOUR HARD DRIVE BEYOND THE POINT OF RECOVERY CODE #!/bin/bash $DRIVE = /dev/sda # change this to your hard drive you wanna erase $COUNT = 0 while [ $COUNT -lt 16 ] : do dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE && dd if=/dev/urandom of=$DRIVE COUNT = $[$COUNT+1] done dd count=1 bs=1024 if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE # erase the first 1megabyte to clear the MBR and partition table EDIT: save as blah.sh and and chmod +x it so you can run it, and run it as root and goto sleep and when you wake up it will be cleared. (i had a guy double check the script for me) it will erase your hard drive 32 times and clear out the MDR and partations of any garbage the last urandom did
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