| 2007/11/12-16 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:48623 Activity:nil | 11/12 how do i make a fail safe magical backup for my debian box
that i can quickly boot from if the box explodes?
\_ keep a linux live boot cd around for just such an emergency
\_ And learn about 'dd'
\_ I was hoping there was something as slick as CCC, for unix.
\_ You can first duplicate the disk offline with dd, then just
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| 2006/8/12-15 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43982 Activity:nil | 8/11 Aside from physically breaking a CD, what's the easiest way to make
it permanently unreadable?
\_ If you have a secure shredder service, they usually handle CDs as
well.
\_ Get a screwdriver, scratch the top of the CD. It's not that much
more work than writing with a pen. Remember, data on CD is near
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| 2006/6/2-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43264 Activity:low | 6/2 I own a 1999 Taurus. I would like to replace the OEM in-dash
cassette deck with a CD player that won't cost more than say $120 and
which will have a "detacheable face". How likely is my car to be broken
into if I do it?
\_ The likelihood of your fancy shmancy CD player getting stolen
10-15 years ago would be the same as those expensive fancy shmancy
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| 2005/12/30-2006/1/4 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:41180 Activity:nil 65%like:41172 | 12/29 A friend's primary Windows 2000 hard disk got nuked, and her
backup drive is missing data. I'm looking for any
recommendations for data recovery software for FAT/NTFS
(restoring deleted files or corrupted filesystems) or
recommendations for data recovery services in SF?
\_ Get an external USB drive enclosure. You want something
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| 2005/12/27-30 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:41151 Activity:nil | 12/27 I'm trying to help out with my mother in law's computer problems. She
has two Windows XP computers (one desktop, one tablet pc) that she was
using for her job before she retired. The computers themselves are old
and her workplace doesn't want them back but they are installed with
all this corporate Novell stuff that I don't know anything about and
her account on the computer has very restricted permissions (she can't
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| 2005/6/22-23 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:38251 Activity:high | 6/22 When I burn an iso image using the "Disk Utility" in OS X (Tiger)
and I then use readcd on a linux box to verify the md5sum of the
burned cd, the md5sum of the CD doesn't match the md5sum of the
origional iso file. Is OS X modifying the iso image before it
burns it or something? Seems strange.
\_ Does this match on any of your other burned-CDs vs. ISO files?
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| 2005/5/18-19 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37730 Activity:nil | 5/17 My second data backup question. I am looking for a backup media I can
take off-site. I'll repeat that we've found the failure rate backing up
to CD unacceptable. She wants to go with an Iomega product but I was
wondering if people have had good/bad experience with these,
reliability-wise and if they have better suggestions. I have about
$400 for this.
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| 2005/4/1-3 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37032 Activity:low | 4/1 I'd like to play my favorite EA game on the laptop. However, I
don't have a CD player for my laptop and I'm wondering if it
is possible to mount the CD on my desktop and access it via
wireless. I know that EA has really weird CD protection
schemes, that's why I'm wondering if anyone has successfully
done this. -ok thx
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| 2005/3/19-20 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:36772 Activity:high | 3/19 Given the choice between a firewire and USB2.0 connection
(between an external hard drive and my computer), which one is
better and why? Thanks.
\_ Firewire is faster and more robust for that application. USB
is more widely available if you'd ever want to move the disk to
another machine. -tom
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| 2005/2/23-24 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:36377 Activity:very high | 2/23 Hi, my girlfriend's mom is in Taiwan. Her computer stopped booting;
it shows BIOS, but it won't show the WinXP screen. So, it sounds like
a virus (less likely, partial drive failure / OS corruption, but let's
assume it's a virus).
She is concerned about recovering her files.
Normally if I were on-site I'd just pull out the drive, put it in an
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| 2005/2/3-5 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:36055 Activity:moderate | 2/3 So, I'm really confused about this notion of computer science
metrics where everything's kind of 2^n, but sometimes not. For
example, if I have a 4 GIG hard drive, does that mean I have
exactly 2^32 bytes of space? Does that translate to 4000000000
bytes, or some number that's close to it? How about megahertz?
Say I have a 2.5GHz computer, does it run at exactly 2500000
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