Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies Glad you made it over here, Julie - welcome! Margot Thanks for pointing me here, Margot - you probably thought I forgot. That's why I seem to have so much clutter in

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Tomas Tudja
... Tomas Tudja 136 Church Road N17 8AJ London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: 06 August 2004 06:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: Julie PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies to learn - and I've already found lotsa nice links in the links section. the "top ten commands" site has been especially helpful so far. Glad you made it over here, Juli

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:45, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:26:54 -0400 > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > Go easy, Charles; this is the newbie list and we don't know anything > > about him. > > I meant no offence to him personally only to his usage of applications. > > Were there no

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:26:54 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Go easy, Charles; this is the newbie list and we don't know anything > about him. I meant no offence to him personally only to his usage of applications. Were there no linux MUA which I believed to be either equivalent, not to mention supe

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 06:15:54 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: > Sorry, I didn't understand a word of the second part of your post :> It means that regardless of What you are using as a firewall OE is itself intrinsically non-secure and is the method of choice for the proliferation of All virus and worms f

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:08, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:09:48 +0100 > Tomas Tudja wrote: > > > BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it :> > > Since I am in the mood and no one else has stated it if you are so > enamored of xp2k2 what the fuck are you doing on a MandrakeLI

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
6 Church Road N17 8AJ London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: 06 August 2004 06:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting ha

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:09:48 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: > BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it :> Since I am in the mood and no one else has stated it if you are so enamored of xp2k2 what the fuck are you doing on a MandrakeLINUX list. If your communication of choice relies on XP the falsify

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
TECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julie Sloan Sent: 06 August 2004 05:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert) Tomas Tudja wrote

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: 1. you really are not? I can't believe that :> ! Well, 1) I haven't been here very long (just today) ...and 2) I'm 99.9% sure you speak english better than I speak your first language. 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1. Connectio

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
TED] Subject: RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert) 1. you really are not? I can't believe that :> ! 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1. Connection between winxp2k2 and mdk is safe, because mdk connection to

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
Julie Sloan Sent: 06 August 2004 04:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert) Tomas Tudja wrote: > Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate > the topic. I though it will be a good help for

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate the topic. I though it will be a good help for the people to understand the problem. I'm not :) BTW what is wrong with outlook? Aha even I can answer that. Outlook Express is the most virus-prone program

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:16, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Bryan, > >>I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally > >> left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually

RE: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 1998-12-31 às 21:34, Tomas Tudja escreveu: > German, you are right... Now I see, what is the prob;lem here :> > > To everybody: a didn't want to be sarcastic or "too smart"... It is just > my english (only 3 months of practice), so sorry guys > > Communication in my native language is a b

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread frankieh
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: 05 August 2004 10:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert) To the rest of the list members; my humble apology for the diatribe. To Thomas Tud

RE: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
working hard on it Tomas Tudja 136 Church Road N17 8AJ London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: 05 August 2004 10:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] tools fo

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
TED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charlie Mahan > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard > drive(diatribe alert) > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 &

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan, I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire drive without asking me first would it ? As far as I kn

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
Of Charlie Mahan Sent: 05 August 2004 09:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 5, 2004 00:31:12, Tomas Tudja wrote: > Hello, > Format, fill with big files (movie

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
ryan Phinney > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard > drive(diatribe alert) > > > On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:36 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > I can't remember where I read it,

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:36 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > I can't remember where I read it, but the securest way to wipe the data is > to put random data in each bit, you need to do this numerous time to get to > each standard, one standard is 30 another 60 times (not sure the correct > amount of

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan, > I'm made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it > in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire > drive without asking me first would it ? As far as I know, it would not. T

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Phinney > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard > drive(diatribe alert) > > > On Thursday 05 Augu

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 07:25 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: Should read DOD. I think that NSA promulgates standards which then become published DoD standards but the NSA itself, doesn't publish standards. For anyone that actually wants a quick Linux tool to do this, see: htt

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Hello, I hate to reply to this. I would be concerned of my data security if I'd have been NASA. But I'm not. If you want to erase some data, try a wipe! I'm sad to see somebody confusing open source (== open minded) to illegal activities. I've never imagined somebody so fly... Being m$ competitiv

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
t: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard > drive(diatribe alert) > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On August 5, 2004 00:31:12, Tomas Tudja wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 5, 2004 00:31:12, Tomas Tudja wrote: > Hello, > Format, fill with big files (movies) until there will be no space left > and format again. If electron microscope guys (probably there are much > cheaper ways to read data from disk only twice f