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SOFT CELL on HARD DRIVE

One of the best hard-drive arrangements to be seen out there-Wondering what he's using as a sequencer there in the middle...Anyone?

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No, I'm representative of someone who thinks for themselves and for the creative spark that's left this house of cards circle-jerk of back-patters and party-liners. We also have Mar-mite and Vegemite jars in the fridge, Kylie Minogue's discography among the music selections in the hard-drive, and have tripped-balls playing the didgeridoo on several occasions.

We can also throat-sing, change a diaper, prepare delicious meals, compose music, be both a jerk and a sweetheart, clean a fish, pan for gold, grow vegetables, train dogs (and cats), service automobiles and small engines, and build a PC from parts down to the computer-supply store. Just your average human being.

Thank god for insects, Aussies and Yanks, and newts.

depending on how much data you have, this actually should be relatively easy to spot/stop.

It takes a while to encrypt a lot of data. With so many people using torrenting more and more to download large video files. Its going to take a long time for it to encrypt all of that. Now yeah, if you just have a bunch of spreadsheets and word documents in your my docs folder, yeah you're probably fucked. But IMO, you shouldn't keep small docs like that on your computer, you keep them on a flash drive not always connected to your computer. Just following with the idea that nothing critically important should be connected 24/7 to the internet anyway.

If you see your hard drive active non-stop even when you're not doing anything, that's your first clue something is amiss.

And nowadays, you just ram the hard drive into the docking station.

I just read Alan Rusbridger's comment on this mess and the following was more than I can take at 8am:

And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.

GCHQ thugs destroying Guardian property on Guardian premises -- I did not expect it to escalate this quickly. The fact that Rusbridger published it on the blog section of the Guardian indicates to me that some sort of gag order was placed on the Guardian and that he stepped up and did this at his own risk.

Makes you wonder what kinds of data Snowden liberated from the NSA: the recipe for soilent green?

I've personally recovered documents and even simple software from formatted hard-drives and flash drives It doesn't always work, but it's surprising how easy it is when it does, and how much information you can recover.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'll save you some time if you have no idea what the answer is: Deleted files don't go anywhere. Basically, the pointer to the file on the hard drive is just marked as deleted, but the data stays where it was before deletion.

This is why (on Windows) you can easily undelete from the recycle bin.

Your deleted files can be recoverable for a very long time because the data will sit there until some other data is saved in the same location. And even in that case, most of the original data might still go untouched for a long time.

This is how forensic computer geeks are able to recover all the dirty secrets you thought were really deleted.

To really delete something, the entire file's saved data needs to be overwritten. There's a lot of great software like Eraser that you can use to do this easily.

my question is, does he have backups of his shit? Wouldn't you, if you had very sensitive data on it? I have at least 5 hard drives connected to my computer, each with different stuff on it. (one for music, other for movies/photos, then the games, then OS) and if I had whistle blowing data i would definitely have it in more than one location.

My progression was.....
Commodore 64 (1983),
Atari520ST (1987),
Atari 1040ST (1987), (Hard drive!)
IBM PC/AT (1988),
Macintosh 2 (1990),
80486 66DX2, (1992),
Pentium overdrive for the 486DX2 (1995),
Dual Pentium MMX 166 (1996) ,
Pentium-2 333mhz (1998), (Dual voodoo-2)
Pentium-3 800mhz (2000),
Pentium D 2.8gz ( 2006),
Core i7-920 ( 2009),
Core i7-970 (2011).

Lesser machines along the way... a Macintosh SE I cant place on the timeline. My biggest regret was sticking with the Pentium-3 for so long. Wasn't so interested though.

I remember buying my Pentium 90 (8 MB RAM) and being told that a 1 GB hard drive would be bigger than I'd ever need. No one could ever fill a 1 GB hard drive they told me.