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Submission + - How will apple's secure erase work in Time Machine (apple.com)

Submitted by BugDave on Friday October 19, 2007 @07:42PM

BugDave writes: In Apple's Mac OS X Leopard guided tour a new feature called Time Machine is previewed. This feature will allow the user to have a constant backup of their system to a separate drive every hour. A user can empty the trash and recover it's contents over a week later. My question is how will the secure empty trash command come in to play with Apple's Time Machine? If a user invokes the command will the finder instruct a 7-pass erase to all the backups of the file as well as the file's existence in Time Machine or will the finder just delete the files locally only for them to be recovered again?

Submission + - How to tell if your Xbox 360 will break (blorge.com)

Submitted by

fdmendez

on Friday August 03, 2007 @07:22AM

fdmendez writes: "In reality there's no 100% sure way to tell if you're Xbox 360 is going to break, but you can find out if you're machine is one of the consoles likely to go sour.

Here's how it breaks down: In response to a staggering rate of failure for the 360, Microsoft decided to fix the heat sink issue with its console. The earlier Xbox 360s tend to lack the new heat sink, and the older Xbox 360s tend to have the new heat sink.

If you're console doesn't have the new heat sink, there's a good chance you're going to witness the red ring of death soon, but, if you're curious as to whether your 360 has the new heat sink, Ben Heck has the deets on how to tell without voiding your warranty and all you need is a digital camera."

Comment Apple Portable Video Player... (Score 0) 113

by BugDave on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @02:23AM (#12939278) Attached to: Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens

Will it really happen? Clearly no one outside of apple knows for sure, but it makes me wonder if it does happen that it will also sport a different shell. Any thoughts?

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