hey guys, tomorrow my provider will shutdown my old server. enough reason for me to wipe clean my sensitive data. but how? i was looking around and found some possible solutions [1,2]: srm - securely remove files or directories wipe - securely erase files from magnetic media shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it i’ve decided to use shred. the next thing i have to look after was my ext3 mount option....

“What happens when you read some doc and either it does not answer your question or is demonstrably wrong? In Linux, you say “Linux sucks” and go read the code. In Windows/Oracle/etc you say “Windows sucks” and start banging your head against the wall." - Denis Vlasenko

Yesterday, InfoWorld published a interview with Bjarne Stroustrup about the new stuff in C++ 11. He mentioned for example multithreading, lock-free concurrency, improvements in returning large data structures and the range-for loop. The following two questions were also very interesting … InfoWorld: How does C++ compare to languages like Java, C#, or the dynamic scripting languages that are proliferating lately? Stroustrup: I can’t do a detailed comparison, but C++ is more flexible (for good and bad) and tends to perform significantly better, assuming competent developers in all languages compared....

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hey folks, couple of days ago i was wondering why my new access point was so lame (transmitting some big files through wifi). so i’ve decided to tweak it a little bit up and use the 5ghz band. it was really a improvement for large file transmissions, because my environment here is full of disturbers. but, i was really pissed-off as i noticed that my iphone was unable to connect to my network anymore....