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Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:00 am

Which is any less illegal.....how?

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:06 am

Bill Gates "I'm not too worried about piracy, we want to get people addicted to our software, so when we've got the technology to stop piracy they'll be forced to buy our products."

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:44 am

Wolfman Walt wrote:Which is any less illegal.....how?

I didn't say it was any less legal. I'm just stating yet another way to disregard the law for your own personal gain.

My hard drive is a bust waiting to happen. *Fingers set and ready to type FORMAT C*

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:30 pm

you mean everyone doesnt dl hacked photoshop and other programs?
shit i even have a copy of XP which aint exactly legal.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:27 pm

shit i even have a copy of XP which aint exactly legal.

Who the f*ck *buys* anything MS made?

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:37 pm

Smiley wrote:
shit i even have a copy of XP which aint exactly legal.
Who the f*ck *buys* anything MS made?

And this thread isn't locked yet why? :-!

Phias · Post by **Phias** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:38 pm

Best Oxymoron Ever:

Microsoft Works.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:03 pm

Best Oxymoron Ever:

Microsoft Works.

I agree.

My hard drive is a bust waiting to happen. *Fingers set and ready to type FORMAT C*

I hope your're talking about a low-level format. If you mean going to a DOS prompt and typing that you're still screwed. The only way to keep other people from seeing what is on your hard drive (read: police/FBI/CIA) is to either:

A. low-level format your hard drive. This is usually done with a program from your hard drive manufacturer (Quantum, Maxtor, Seagate, etc). It erases ALL data on your drive. Every bit is erased.

B. Remove your hard drive from your computer, and place it on the floor (preferably concrete). Next, take a sledgehammer to it and beat the living shit out of it until there are many, many small peices lying on the ground. Make sure to crush the hard drive platters into dust. No platters, no data. This is the method used by the federal government to keep anyone from reading sensitive (and top secret) data on their old computer's hard drives (you know, the old ones that they're replacing with faster ones, and selling the old ones).

No, a regular high level format will not do it. That merely erases the FAT tables, MBR, and certain bytes in a file signifying that the space it resides on is empty, and ready for use to all OSs. It doesn't actually delete files.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:33 pm

Murphy is correct. What you could do, is format your hard drive, then make a text document 40 GB big (or however big your hard drive is). That should over-write your incriminating evidence.

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:38 pm

MurPHy wrote:

B. Remove your hard drive from your computer, and place it on the floor (preferably concrete). Next, take a sledgehammer to it and beat the living shit out of it until there are many, many small peices lying on the ground. Make sure to crush the hard drive platters into dust. No platters, no data. This is the method used by the federal government to keep anyone from reading sensitive (and top secret) data on their old computer's hard drives (you know, the old ones that they're replacing with faster ones, and selling the old ones).

No, a regular high level format will not do it. That merely erases the FAT tables, MBR, and certain bytes in a file signifying that the space it resides on is empty, and ready for use to all OSs. It doesn't actually delete files.

Even better =).

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:22 pm

I believe that both my avatar and my desktop are self-explanatory.

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:07 pm

I likd the deviantart desktop so much, I made it my own.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 2:00 pm

Here's my new avatar:

It's from the 1936 Olympics, where Jesse Owens won the gold, and embarrassed Hitler. It's a pretty powerful photograph, in my opinion. The German guy is saluting Hitler like he was instructed.

I guess it sucks as an avatar though.