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Or you could boot any live Linux image (e.g. Knoppix) and run: sudo lsblk # find out the device name to be wiped sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda status=progress It won't protect your drive from state agents who can dismantle the drive and read faint magnetic traces with very...

That's a lie. The first thing is change the default passwords. Second thing is update anything that was stale in the installation medium. Third thing is /etc/inputrc 🆒

I use that reverse history search all the time. But not the way you showed it. Control-r is an emacs thing. I've been using vi (elvis, nvi, vim...) since it was new. Its visual command language is in muscle memory. I'm never gonna learn emacs. So the first thing I do with a new Linux...

Three years have passed and sata iii port expanders now exist. I own this card and it works at speed. http://www.amazon.com/Oodelay-eSATA-Gbps-SATA-Multiplier/dp/B00IMGEZKA/ My motherboard doesn't have eSATA so I had to buy a SATA iii to eSATA iii cable with the card.

I'm having a problem which may be related. The built in name server is broken. BIND-9's host command just says Message parser reports malformed message packet. Upstream name servers work fine. Unfortunately, the wireless appliances downstream don't have a setting to override bad name servers...