My point in taking it was to learn AIX, which I can't do with any kind of virtualization. I will be working with AIX, RHEL, and netapp in my next job, and my AIX skills are pretty much zero. I just wanted an AIX box to hack on. O switched to CentOS on my desktop as well.
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> > Date: May 4, 2011 9:28:19 PM EDT > To: Jax-LUG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: For unix admins... > > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 20:51 -0400, Gene Cronk wrote: >> A quick google tells me that it will run linux.....it is a motorola 604 >> box... > > Yes I agree, this is the classic use case for Linux. Company tossing > some older once beefy hardware. Many times Linux can bring new life to > the aged/vintage hardware, and tended to have rather decent performance. > > As for the problem of proving hard drives have been wiped. The most > common method would be via commands, dd, shred, others, if its running > Linux or using a Linux livecd. For something straight forward could use > like dban[1]. You can save the command log and/or output to a file and > create a report based on that data. That hopefully will suffice, > depending on what they are seeking in a report showing the medium has > been wiped of any data. > > 1. http://www.dban.org > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] >
