How to ruin your PC (660 hits)
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Submitted by Jo (View user info) at 2003-10-16 06:16:03 EDT
Got this off the BBC news page. Its the top 10 list for accidental ways to delete the data on your PC. Kinda makes you wonder just how many nutters are out there??
TOP 10 DATA DISASTERS
*Laptop shot in anger
*PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
*Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
*Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
*Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
*Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
*Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt
*Computer thrown against a wall
*Latte-covered laptop rescued
*Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off
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Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2003-10-16 15:17:52 EDT (#)
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The forgot to add to the list:
*Run any M$ Office app. Comp will eventually fuck up on its own.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-10-16 12:58:08 EDT (#)
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Oh and F5 refreshes your screen.
Submitted by glasscpp (user info) at 2003-10-16 11:41:39 EDT (#)
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I liked reading this, although in all actuality myself, hidden, and some others will still ba able to retrieve the data from the hard drives, not too hard given the proper tools. The only true way to clear the data is to use a "wipe" tool and/or a really strong magnet!
By the way some Win shortcut keys:
Win + M - minimize
alt, spacebar, x - max current screen (the "," means realse the key)
Win + L - lock workstation if on XP
ctrl + shift + Esc - Windows Task Manager
If you really want to hide windows I suggest getting "VirtuaWin" http://www.virtuawin.com/
It'll give you many desktops. I've pretty well configured my work laptop to appear as a linux machine as close as I can. I use SciTE for my texted editor and have cygwin installed. There are also addins/plugins for VitruaWin for many useful tools and getting Windows to function as linux.
cheers,
glasscpp
Submitted by NinjaStep (user info) at 2003-10-16 10:35:10 EDT (#)
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when they renovater my school they found that the air conditioning system had been umpluged since it was installed (5 years). somehow the maintanence crews that checked it twice a year failed to notince this
Submitted by El_Guapo (user info) at 2003-10-16 09:54:03 EDT (#)
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"*Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt "
when i was in school, they were doing some remodeling in the building one of my classes was in, they found a novell server that had been walled in for over five years and was still running
Submitted by Sec (user info) at 2003-10-16 07:07:59 EDT (#)
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"Even better than Alt, F4 is the windows key and 'm'."
Hey! Thanks. I use Windows E to get explorer but I hadn't seen that one.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:58:00 EDT (#)
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Sec: you're right.
hahahahahha WTF I just discovered my damn Cntrl key here is broken.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:56:56 EDT (#)
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Even better than Alt, F4 is the windows key and 'm'. It just minimises everything so you don't have to Start form the beginning again once the boss has left.
Submitted by Sec (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:54:45 EDT (#)
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That should be Alt + F4.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:49:05 EDT (#)
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Otter: Cntrl Alt F4 simply terminates the application running/selected. It is kinda a leftover legend sorta thing now, because you could trick stupid AOL users and IRC users into shutting down their client instantly. An effective way of telling them to fuck off.
Windows built it in as a shortcut. works good for making solitare and such vanish when boss comes to visit the cube.
Submitted by Otter (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:42:35 EDT (#)
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What is that one thing that's been suggested on this site? Something like Hit ctrl, als F4 or something like that. What does this do?
Before someone suggests, "go ahead and try it," give me the proper sequence, and I might just do it to the company computer on my last day of work. Or my own PC at home before I get rid of it.
Note to gun owners: If you shoot on an open range where you bring your own targets, PC's make GREAT targets!
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2003-10-16 06:28:53 EDT (#)
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=data+recovery
there for awhile the military had a "zeroizer" utility that wrote 0's and 1's over the entire hard drive 13 times. Apparently, not even that prevented some recoveries so they discontinued its use and went back to sending the HD's to a furnace.
Nothing is an unrecoverable data disaster.