[Discuss] Opera vs Chrome for safety/security

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Both Opera and Chrome are fast browsers, and each claims is own security record for web browsing. What are people's experiences and insights with how well each browser actually does in real-world tests? Noscript doesn't exist for Opera or Chrome, but at least Chrome reportedly has good-enough

[Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Chris O'Connell
Hi All, Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. Thanks, -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Chris O'Connell omegah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies?  I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. Thanks, Erase or

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 6/12/2012 6:19 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote: Hi All, Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. Radio Shack used to sell bulk tape erasers. They're

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread scottmarydavid...@gmail.com
I've got one of the Radio Shack bulk erasers that Shirley mentioned. The problem is that unless you reconnect the disk to verify that it's wiped, you never really know. Last batch, I just took a hammer to them. Never say never, but it'll be pretty hard for someone to read a disk with a 1/2 in.

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/12/2012 06:19 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote: Hi All, Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill. With the issues that others have brought up. The

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote: On 6/12/2012 6:19 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote: Hi All, Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Jack Coats
At work years ago we had a bulk eraser. It had a moving belt, about 8 wide, 3' long, heavy as sin (if you go for the heavies :) Ran off of AC, and hummed like a kazoo band. But we could erase any size of tape very well easily. But it wasn't worth getting out for 1 or two. It might have worked

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Jack Coats
The little RShack degauser ($14.99 + $10 SH on ebay) works OK, just can't get the flux density needed to penetrate ferious metal to any distance. Rather than one of those, go to somewhere that has BIG electric motors, and while the motors are running, pass the drives back and forth near the field

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:07 AM, scottmarydavid...@gmail.com scottmarydavid...@gmail.com wrote: I've got one of the Radio Shack bulk erasers that Shirley mentioned. The problem is that unless you reconnect the disk to verify that it's wiped, you never really know. Last batch, I just took a

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
Some of the DoD wipe programs do a good job. A DD does not really wipe the drive. Additionally, there is a hardware wipe on many of these drives. A disk wipe using one of the methods on UBCD should be sufficient unless you are afraid that the government will try to recover the data. Of course,

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/12/2012 9:25 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: Some of the DoD wipe programs do a good job. A DD does not really wipe Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). It's also good for disk/controller burn-in testing. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 6/12/2012 7:07 AM, scottmarydavid...@gmail.com wrote: I've got one of the Radio Shack bulk erasers that Shirley mentioned. The problem is that unless you reconnect the disk to verify that it's wiped, you never really know. Last batch, I just took a hammer to them. Never say never, but it'll

[Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I have a bash script, writing to a log file, and there's a long delay before the output appears in the file. When it does, it appears several K at a time. I'm not having any luck figuring out how to tell bash to disable (or reduce) the output buffer. Anyone know? In the bash man page, I

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Pieri
On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I have a bash script, writing to a log file, and there's a long delay before the output appears in the file. When it does, it appears several K at a time. This isn't bash. It's file I/O buffering. Solutions are either mount the file

Re: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

2012-06-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Chris O'Connell Subject: [Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon

[Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
On mac windows, I'm accustomed to Time Machine and Acronis. Key features are: . Run in the background, low priority, no complaints from user about performance. . Daily (or more frequent) incrementals . Able to specify excludes . Able to restore whole system, or just a few individual files .

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-12 Thread Jack Coats
In old SunOS days, we could issue the 'sync' command, twice, to ensure all system buffers had been written to disk. You could experiment to see if issuing it occasionally in your script helps. Or issue it outside the script, even in a chron might help. ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-12 Thread Jack Coats
I have used crashplan (crashplan.com) on Ubuntu and Windows with luck. I don't use their cloud service, but I have a 3T drive on one machine that everyone backs up to. The 'pay for' client does 'continuous' backups, but the free client does daily backups and on demand. On critical machines, you