How do you get a hard drive’s serial number? Is it different for SCSI vs IDE vs SATA vs SSD? What if it’s connected over USB or Firewire? What about memory sticks?
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Remote-radio controller thing.
TODO – split this into three documents: file, partition, drive
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Projects >
Computers > Digital forensics / Computer security >
The secure erasure of data.
I’ve also heard this called “data sanitization”.
NOTE – This information IS BAD. Other methods must be used to actually securely erase hard drives, but this project was killed before I could investigate them.
NOTE – Sterilizing SSDs are a totally different topic than sterilizing hard drives. I wouldn’t trust an SSD to be securely erasable at all. For an SSD, use fire. Yes, this means that you cannot give, sell or return an SSD if it had sensitive data on it.
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Data recovery, the opposite.
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Displays >
- I could do TV output, but TVs can’t do decent resolution.
- I could use a projector, but those aren’t quite appropriate.
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I want a widescreen display which can do widescreen aspect ratio.
I got a Dell 2405FPW
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Software > File managers, Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/
A web browser and file manager for KDE.
The KHTML rendering engine was made for it. Safari also uses that engine. It’s nice, but .. could be better. Has insane and not-customizable accesskeys.
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Linux audio ripping and encoding for notes on using Konqueror.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151105102937/http://http://nwn.bioware.com/
An online MMO type thing. I was using Linux at the time, and so I suppose my options were limited.
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There are those who want to relinquish power, believing that others are more capable and therefore qualified than themselves to run aspects of their life or world for them. This could be ignorance, this could be laziness, this could be willful. Fnord is a related hesitation. Or I could be completely wrong.
I tend to additionally attribute fnord to concepts of doublethink and doublespeak.
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