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I’d need to re-watch this to add proper notes.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - (1997 show) image

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/

A highschool cheerleader, learning she is imbued with the spirit of the Vampire Slayer and her school was built on a Hellmouth, is trained by an ancient order of Watchers to fight vampires and other monsters from ending the world.

An astonishing series, and I don’t say that lightly. The characters and story are outstanding. While this is a fast-and-loose show, it matures. It spinoff/partner series, Angel – (1999 show) is even more adult. This show is well worth the time, even if its initial episodes put the viewer off with its childishness. It’s not a series that “grows on you”, it really does get better and better, building upon and maturing out of its initial impressions.

Mandatory viewing.

Inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer – (1992 movie), which is neither mandatory nor recommended viewing.
See also Angel – (1999 show), which is set in this universe and shares significant-enough elements that crossover-viewing is largely considered mandatory. See Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel viewing order
Inspired a comic book sequel.
See also Supernatural – (2005 show) for a similar premise.

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Beliefs

2006-01-16

beliefs, beliefs topics, comedy entertainment, dead, good things, philosophy, projects

…

Religion, “new age”, philosophy, ideology, etc.

I explored a bunch, but it turns out I prefer self-enlightenment over the transferable beliefs others find value in.

See also:

Atheism – The lack of theism, and/or lacking belief in a god or gods.
Awareness
Enlightenment
Science
The body > Brain

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Determining a hard drive’s serial number under Linux

2006-01-14

archivism, dead, hardware, HOWTO, Linux, projects, storage

Storage, Linux >

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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X-10 Remote Controller

2006-01-08

dead, desktop hardware, hardware, input devices, previously-owned, proprietary hardware, things

Remote-radio controller thing.

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Data sterilization

2005-12-29

computers, dead, Digital forensics, HOWTO, Linux, projects, security, storage, todo

TODO – split this into three documents: file, partition, drive

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.

See also:

Data recovery, the opposite.

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widescreen monitor research

2005-12-28

dead, monitors, output devices, projects

Displays >

I could do TV output, but TVs can’t do decent resolution.
I could use a projector, but those aren’t quite appropriate.
I want a widescreen display which can do widescreen aspect ratio.

I got a Dell 2405FPW

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Konqueror

2005-12-27

archivism, dead, disliked, file managers, freeware, glances, GUI software, image viewers, KDE, KDE software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software with Git repositories, web browsers

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.

See also: