Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

[Robert Bonomi]

 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Sun Jul 22 07:22:29 2012
 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:19:43 +0200 (CEST)
 From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
 To: Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

 
  Let us securely erase your personal files and pictures for only $49.99.
 and securely copy everything interesting before.

 That's truly funny. Someone DO CARE about his/her data being deleted, 
 and... lets someone else in random shop to do this.

And exactly what alternatives _do_ you see for someone who DOES NOT HAVE
THE SKILLS, TOOLS, OR RESOURCES, to 'do it themselves'?

That's a serious question, not an attack.

If someone wants it done, but doesn't have the knowledge/tools/etc. to
do it themselves, it appears to me that they have precisely two realistic
alternatives:
   1) Trust somebody to do it, and do it right,
or
   2) simpl DON'T do it.

Putting together what is required to do it yourself _is_ out of the
question for _most_ Windows users.   They don't know _what_ they need to
know/learn/have to do the task. Heck they don't know how to find out *what*
they need to find out, to learn what is needed to do the task.

Yes, in theory, they _could_ learn everything they need to know to do it
themselves, but the list of things that a 'know nothing' Windows user has
to dig out, understand, and _use_, is incredibly long and daunting.



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Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

[Jerry]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:31:51 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi articulated:

 Yes, in theory, they _could_ learn everything they need to know to do
 it themselves, but the list of things that a 'know nothing' Windows
 user has to dig out, understand, and _use_, is incredibly long and
 daunting.

I know plenty of dumber than dirt *.nix users too. Stupidity is not
limited to race, color, sex or operating system. Actually, they are
smart enough to get themselves an OS that actually works with virtually
all modern hardware and without having to spend countless [hours | days
| weeks] attempting to getting such hardware up and running before
eventually giving up in some cases. You might have heard about N
protocol wireless devices that until fairly recently FreeBSD didn't even
know existed. Even now the support is limited; however, that is another
story.

In any case, that is not the subject of this this reply. I have found
HDDerase.exe http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
to be a useful and in the most important criteria to the FOSS crowd,
free.

Seriously though, isn't it about time to close this thread?


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Jerry ♔

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