Comment Re:HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (Score 1, Interesting) 252
DBAN still does the trick. I use it on all my hard disks, thumb drives and memory cards.
Comment Darik's Boot & Nuke (Score 2, Informative) 252
Give DBAN a try. This tool never fails me for any kind of disk I throw at it.
Comment Too many duplicates consuming disk space? (Score 2, Insightful) 137
No problem...
zfs set dedup=on tank
there... that should do the trick.
Comment Re:Thanks a lot (Score 1) 2
I just wasted half an hour of class time playing Megaman 2 >_>
You are welcome.
Submission + - Play NES Games Anywhere With vNES (virtualnes.com) 2
RhapsodyGuru writes: Ever wanted to play your favorite Nintendo classics anywhere you go? I ran into this really cool website called vNES that has a whole library of NES games that run within a Java-based NES emulator. There is a thriving community and new games are added all the time. Also, unlike ROM sites and emulator services, vNES is completely legal since they have physical copies of all the games that are listed on the site.
Submission + - Goodbye, Cruel Sun (simmons.de)
Get Behind the Mule writes: I blogged some of my thoughts about Oracle's acquisition of my former employer, Sun Microsystems, particularly about the extravagant compensation and golden parachutes that went to executives who, on objective terms, failed at their jobs.
... I think it's fair to say that, for all the miscues that eventually led to its demise, the company created many products and technologies of value along the way, enough so that Oracle thought it was worth it to acquire them and try to keep them going.
However, I think that it's equally fair to conclude that, after years of running losses, including about $2 billion in fiscal 2009, so that a buyout was necessary to avoid looming bankruptcy, Sun's executives did nothing to deserve lavish rewards, by any conceivable meaning of the word "deserve". But what actually happened is by now a familiar story.
Comment An interesting resource (Score 3, Informative) 932
http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm
That should give them an idea. It also includes a video about trojan horses. :)
Comment Breadbox Ensemble? (Score 2, Informative) 507
Hey... try Breadbox Ensemble! It will revive any old PC! It is still in active development and may even have an application for you.
http://www.breadbox.com/
Comment Oh great! (Score 2, Interesting) 272
Oh well... as they always say... one must forsake freedom for the sake of preserving liberty.
