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How to securely delete data from a hard-drive (or USB pendrive) so that the information is virtually unrecoverable even to someone with unlimited funds. Myth: Over-written hard-drive data can be [easily] recovered It’s easier to guess the data than recover it! Over-write it and then smash it with a hammer?!? “If you are bloody minded, [...]

Just a list of universities that offer free courses of video-based lectures. University’s video based courses Free Stanford University (stanford.edu), OpenClassroom Carnegie Mellon Michigan Berkeley MIT: OCW, MITworld

Firefox sync Down for everyone or just me?! Firefox sync has been broken for me for the last 24 hours at least. Couple of useful links: www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/sync/ general info on setting up sync for Firefox users. about:sync-log will open your local logs to check what’s happening. docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html gives details how you can run a sync [...]

Ideas are cheap Applying stickers in Canv.as Background: Canv.as is a new social image sharing website with a system called “stickers” by which users can tag different images. Currently stickers are applied by dragging and dropping an icon on to the image being stickered (i.e. tagged). Idea: have a keypress+click for attaching stickers – so [...]

tool known in Ubuntu as “disk utility”, from the package gnome-disk-utility with command palimpsest, is the best GUI based summary of disk health and partition info I’ve found

Some JavaScript resources, in particular JavaScript videos and interactive coding tutorials. Also listing the most popular books and online references as reported by developers. Learning JavaScript Interactive code writing lessons Eloquent JavaScript, an online resource for which there is also a printed book (UK book link). Learning Advanced Javascript from John Resig, part of the [...]