08-30-17 15:24 Barry Martin wrote to Ed Vance about Permanently Erase Files
Howdy! Barry,
BM> @MSGID: <59A82521.9.ilelectr@capitolcityonline.net>
BM> Hi Ed!
BM> Friend from Nevada sent this link on how to permanently files. First
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BM> http://www.popsci.com/permanently-delete-files?CMPID=ene082217&spMailing
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BM> Now for the get-around-to!
EV> I found the ROUNDTUIT and read the Popular Science article.
EV> Thanks!
BM> Glad to be of assistance!
I've learn many things from many people.
It was because I saw Nancy writing to You in the IL_ChitChat echo conference
that I started writing to You there.
Mike Powell, This BBS's SysOp has messages from many BBS Networks that I
can LURK at.
Iirc, My first message in there was a 'crack' at something Nancy wrote,
but I might be wrong. And don't say "Nah!" in Your Reply, I'm here, I Know.
EV> I knew that ERASER was available for that job.
EV> I didn't see any mention of DBAN, but I learned that RECUVA also
EV> can 'obscure'.
BM> I'll add those to the original notes.
EV> My method is to click on the filename in XP's Windows Explorer
EV> and then press the Shift KEY and the Delete KEY to bypass the
EV> Trashbin.
BM> Don't know if there is an equivalent shortcut for Linux; seems like the
BM> file would still be recoverable as all <delete> does is mark the
BM> sectors the file occupies as a available.
I will ask Paul Quinn in the WIN95 echo, He uses Linux, I've only dabbled
with Ubuntu and looked at Mint.
EV> Yes, I know the files information is still on my HDD but I'm not
EV> too much worried if someone other than me wanted to recover the
EV> file(s).
BM> Oh - I keep forgetting I'm supposed to read ahead! I have some semi-
BM> sensitive information on my HDDs which would be a major bother for me
BM> to correct/undo if recovered and used by the wrong type of person.
Some things I keep on a Floppy Disk, even thought probably traces of it
are still somewhere on this XP pc.
When I want to access those files I use the USB Floppy Drive I bought
at Radio Shack a few days after I bought this XP box.
EV> I am a retired Civil Service employee, I'm not going to do
EV> something that would mess up my Pension or the portion of the
EV> annuity my wife would receive.
BM> No, that would be stupid! ...Though I worked retail for years and
BM> years and some of the things customers do...... L.P. caught a wanted
BM> criminal with some pretty hefty charges just because he shoplifted a
BM> $9.99 t-shirt!
Habits are habits, aren't they? Good that L.P. was watching when He did it.
EV> I may be dumb but I'm not stupid.
BM> <chuckle>
It's the TRUTH!
The Phrase I used comes from a story someone told me at work one day.
A tire blew out on a road alongside a Insane Asylum.
The driver saw a man looking at him from behind the fence and was afraid
to get out of the car.
After sitting in the car for a long time the man in the car thought
"if that guy tried to climb the fence I would still have time to
jump back in the car, so I'll get out and change my tire.
The man inside the fence watched him jack the car up and take the flat
tire off and put the spare tire on the hub.
Then the driver looked around for the lug nuts but couldn't find them
anywhere around.
He thought: what am I going to do now?, there isn't anyone to ask for
help but that crazy guy behind the fence, but I will go ahead and ask
him.
The driver walked towards the fence and asked - what would you do if
you had a flat tire and couldn't find the lug nuts to put the spare on?
The man behind the fence told him "I would go and take one lug nut off
of the other three wheels and use them until you can get somewhere to
buy some lug nuts.
The driver said to the man behind the fence - I thought all of the people
in there were crazy.
The guy inside the fence told him - "Yes we are, but we're not stupid.".
EV> I stayed around the Popular Science site and read a few more
EV> articles before writing this Reply.
BM> What?! You get side-tracked too!!
Lurkers are lurkers, You know.
EV> I subscribed to Popular Science in the Mid-1970's, but that was
EV> the time before I got a Commodore 64 in 1984.
BM> When I was living out East a friend of the family subscribed and
BM> usually gave the issue to me after he was done. Out here I subscribed
BM> to Popular Electronics for a number of years, with lots of intentions
BM> to build projects when I had more money and time.
I learned a lot from reading Pop'Tronics and Radio-Electronics articles.
My first issues of Pop'Tronics were the small sized books.
Iirc it was Popular Science who first printed their magazines in the
larger size, and all of the other publishers started printing the larger
magazines. Am I close to being right?
I was in Elementry School when my Teacher took the class on a Field Trip
to the Library.
The Librarian(?) said the boys in the group might like looking at the
Popular Mechanics or Mechanics Illustrated magazines.
I don't think Popular Science was published in the 1950's when I was at
the Library.
I subscribe to Mechanics Illustrated magazine when I was in the 5th Grade.
One article I still remember was about the General Electric Company had
created a very tiny Drill Bit and sent one of them to Switzerland for the
Swiss to write back their praises for the newly created Precision Drill
Bit.
The Swiss sent the Drill Bit back to GE with a hole drilled through it.
Hmmm, I got long winded, didn't I? Nuff Said.
P.S. The message I wrote last night had a TYPO, I missed the letter U
in Graduate, gradate is a real word but quite different, isn't it?
... Not with a full deck: Bad spot on the disk.
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