Re: Planning a new Debian box!
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I was playing with the role of paranoid, sorry.
Paranoid always works for me. But never apologize. The Canadians
take it as a sign of weakness.
> The fact is that Microsoft does not make it easy to convert
> old Dells to beneficial use.
Yup. They are like that.
> It took dd about 30 hours to wipe the disk in my old Dell.
I will not be invoking dd unless there is a general collapse of
the civil order, which, I'm told, may be any day now.
> You have convinced me that I needn't have warned you on any of
> the points that I mentioned.
Excellent! I think you know what I'm going to do with this Dell.
"Don't read the manual! Wing that sucker!"
I will bludgeon the thing into submission.
It's been years 'n years since I tried to overwrite a M$ factory
disque. Should be interesting. Hopefully, if I have to rip it
out I won't bean the cat with it when I fling it across the
room. He's worth a lot more than a refurb M$ drive!
Thanks!
--
Bob Bernstein
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