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Nice! El Primero Flyback "original". A present from my best half when I hit 40.

I luvs me some Zenith.

Sous Vizzle in the Hizzle

SR-Omega arrived, sounds pretty nice on the BHSE. I'll wait to use the Megatron after I retreive my loaned-out Yggdrasil, but I have high expectations.

Today I managed to get stung by a wasp while poring something out on the side steps. I was outside for 3 seconds and managed to get stung. 3 seconds. Words were had. Moral of the story is stay inside.

do this from the command line: diskutil randomDisk 2 /dev/diskN That should be thorough enough that even commercial tools won't get at the data. Encryption would work fine if you started with it on. The reason it doesn't help in this case is the same reason overwriting is a pain. SSDs don't like to overwrite the data, they just write to new locations and change the pointer.

A used Yggy just went on sale locally and I'm snagging it tonight!

cool, that's a good birthday gift for you from microsoft

I did as well last night. Did not realize it was only 6 episodes

The house can be rebuilt later, what's important is that the wasps die.

It's because mil-spec. Has Ray been gone that long, not to remind you?!

I (with the help of my grad student and her husband who has a truck) moved a love seat that we had at the house into my office. Now I have a place for napping (and sleeping if I get stuck overnight there again). It's a great couch for napping (it has low poofy arms that make a perfect pillow) and I'm short so I fit perfectly. The big white chair that used to be in front of the speaker in the living room is where the couch used to be so now there is nothing obstructing the speaker. Tim was right, the room doesn't look as nice - oh well.

I am curious about this myself. I always thought it was a hysteresis thing. Hysteresis, is a tendency for magnetic media to retain a recording. If you write over it once, and you know the nature of the media, you can figure out if there was a 1 or a zero underneath it based on small deviations from the value it should have been if there was never any data there to begin with. This gets shrunk dramatically the second time, and now instead of two possible values around a known constant, you have two possible values around two possible values. It just gets fuzzier after that. Those values by the way, are pretty darn small to begin with -- one requires extremely sensitive equipment to perform data forensics. And yes, they don't write constant values on any drives any more, they write patterns when they're reformatting, because it makes for a better hard disk anyway. "Like new."

because twice makes sure every byte of the disk gets rewritten. if it was encrypted from the beginning, then just format it and you're safe.

So, I was able to use this more over the weekend, and I have tip say that I'm pretty pleased with CarPlay. Anyone who's used Apple Maps will be familiar with the interface, though the improvement on the use of the added real estate with a 7" screen are noticeable. Siri search had worked so far, dictating and reading back of messages has been successful, and once I got some of the settings dialed in, I'm really happy with how it sounds. Highly recommended!

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Oh, that's right, isn't that the one with the proprietary SSD? Yeah, never mind.

Took my pharmacology final today. Got asked to leave my test because the guy next to me kept looking at my answer sheet and apparently I was trying to help him cheat off of me when I was oblivious to him the entire time. Went straight to the Dean. Complained about it. Got her to pull up the video camera recording in the lecture hall and watched her watch me take my test without any foul play. The guy to my right was looking at both my test and the person to his right. Not sure what will happen to him but got to go back and finish my test in the teachers office which was far more comfortable than the shitty classroom chairs. Could have done without the stress on a hard exam to begin with but glad the summer session is over. Fall classes start on Monday. Hooray...