Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing
I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It
originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted,
and then as root ran
shred -vz /dev/sdd
The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding"
about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default
number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days.
The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing
the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs
would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running
something like:
shred -vz /dev/sdd1
shred -vz /dev/sdd2
shred -vz /dev/sdd3
shred -vz /dev/sdd4
in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure?
Thanks
Dean
12 years, 3 months
Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl
Hi,
I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with
an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that
"Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens
up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL
then it comes up and displays properly.
Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem?
Regards,
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12 years, 12 months
PDF Modifier?
by Adel ESSAFI
Hello list
Is there any PDF modifier for linux?
Regards
Adel
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13 years, 1 month
dell e6500 lost fn-f8 key with 2.6.32 kernels
by Brian Millett
In the 2.6.32 kernels, I've seemed to have lost the ability to use the
fn-f8 key to togle external displays. Using xev I see that
KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001,
root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869383, (55,45), root:(93,132),
state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001,
root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869531, (55,45), root:(93,132),
state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p"
XFilterEvent returns: False
This works just fine with the 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64, but not
with any of the 2.6.32 kernels.
Any hints?
Thanks.
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13 years, 2 months
Window Management under Compiz
by Aaron Konstam
How do you get the window to be chosen when you move the cursor to it
under compiz?
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13 years, 2 months
Damn these Windows Virus Testers - Online
by Mickey
F14
Every so often I get one of these DAMN Windows Virus testers while
Online with Firefox and I can't stop it , I have to do a
ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of it. and even tho I long back in Firefox
wants to automatically restart the test , without asking me if I want to
Restore or Start New Session.
How can I prevent Firefox from Starting these tests ? I don't want to
change any settings that Will affect any other web site
It does not make any difference what Website your on it's just pops up
and starts
13 years, 3 months
Bugs in yum for fedora 14 ?
by Sjoerd
Bugs in Yum for Fedora 14
Dear list,
I'm trying to use my own repository for yum and encountered some strange things in yum.
First of all yum doesn't understands an aliased domain name.
When I put an alias like ftp.example.com it just uses example.com.
Second. When I put the baseurl in the /etc/yum.repos.d as http://ftp.example.com/ it tries to download from
ftp://example.com/
Is there any misconfiguration on my part or is it yum that wants exact addresses of where to get the packages from.
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13 years, 3 months
multimedia player with proxy?
by Adel ESSAFI
Hello,
I want to ask if you have eny experience with a media player (mplayer, vlc
.....) and proxy.
I do not succeed to listen to my radio with proxy.
I have tried with mplayer vlc and xine.
On windows, it is possible, so I don't think it is a proxy problem but
softwere problem.
thanks for any entry
regards
ps: the address is : mms://stream.mosaiquefm.net/mosaique64k
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13 years, 3 months
mpg321 in fedora 14
by paul van der meij
after a new install of fedora 14 I get a core segmentation fault when
running mpg321.
It used to work perfectly under fedora 11
any ideas ??
output from strace:
6614 open("018_Pena.mp3", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
6614 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6163292, ...}) = 0
6614 open("018_Pena.mp3", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
6614 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6163292, ...}) = 0
6614 _llseek(4, -128, [6163164], SEEK_END) = 0
6614 read(4, "TAG", 3) = 3
6614 mmap2(NULL, 6163164, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb7234000
6614 munmap(0xb7234000, 6163164) = 0
6614 close(4) = 0
6614 mmap2(NULL, 6163164, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb7234000
6614 close(3) = 0
6614 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
6614 write(2, "Playing MPEG stream from 018_Pen"..., 42) = 42
6614 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8049a50, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [INT],
SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
6614 write(2, "MPEG 1.0 layer III, 320 kbit/s, "..., 54) = 54
6614 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {0x8049a50, [INT],
SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
6614 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
6614 +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
apart from this everything is working fine in fedora 14
Paul
13 years, 3 months