| --- Log opened Mon Nov 17 00:00:31 2008 |
| 01:28 | <@Serah> | Easily readable to me. |
| 01:28 | <@Serah> | Hmmm... |
| 01:40 | | Derakon is now known as Derakon[AFK] |
| 02:01 | <@Consul> | Query: does a strong magnet thoroughly (as in, completely unreadable) destroy the data on a 3.5" floppy disk? |
| 02:03 | <@Consul> | I have a bunch of old 3.5" disks, and I want to do some sort of art project with them, take some photos of it, then give it away. |
| 02:03 | <@Consul> | The issue is, I need to be sure I can destroy whatever data is on them. |
| 02:06 | <@gnolam> | Go find yourself a degausser and apply it to them. |
| 02:06 | <@Consul> | I was hoping I could use materials on hand... |
| 02:07 | <@gnolam> | In that case, just do a secure format... |
| 02:07 | <@Consul> | You say "just go find a degausser" as if they're at every drug store for 50 cents for four minutes like an air pump. :-P |
| 02:07 | <@Consul> | I have no floppy drives anywhere in house anymore. |
| 02:07 | <@Consul> | Haven't for about three years now. |
| 02:08 | <@McMartin> | Consul: No guarantees. |
| 02:08 | <@McMartin> | You need magnetic motion, and you need it in random changes. |
| 02:09 | <@gnolam> | A floppy drive costs, what, $10? |
| 02:09 | <@Consul> | I have a bunch of neodym magnets. |
| 02:09 | <@gnolam> | (Of course, you don't /buy/ components like that. You scrounge them.) |
| 02:10 | <@gnolam> | (Electronics recycling bins FTW.) |
| 02:10 | <@Vornicus> | consul: the other way of destroying the data on the disk is to physically mangle the disk. |
| 02:10 | <@Consul> | I could open each one, yank and shred the media, then seal them up again. :-) |
| 02:11 | <@Vornicus> | quite. Or stuff a knife through the access hole. |
| 02:11 | <@Consul> | They'll get epoxied to something anyway. |
| 02:13 | <@Consul> | I still have no idea what art piece this will be. I just know it will take some kind of advantage of the rainbow of colors of disks. |
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| 02:32 | <@Consul> | Cool! I can pry apart the top edge of the disk, yank out the media, tear out the hub and put the hub back into place, and it still looks like a floppy. |
| 02:35 | <@McMartin> | That'll work. |
| 02:35 | <@McMartin> | Feed the magnetics into a shredder and your data is gone. |
| 02:37 | <@Consul> | Indeed. |
| 02:37 | <@Consul> | I *do* have one of those. |
| 02:37 | <@Consul> | Say, how do you bold your text? I can't recall how... |
| 02:38 | <@Vornicus> | What client? |
| 02:38 | <@Consul> | xchat |
| 02:38 | <@Vornicus> | %B |
| 02:38 | <@Consul> | Like %Bthis%B ? |
| 02:39 | <@Consul> | Err, obviously not... |
| 02:39 | <@Vornicus> | hrm |
| 02:39 | <@Consul> | Ctrl-B maybe? |
| 02:39 | <@Vornicus> | it's %B on my thing |
| 02:39 | <@Consul> | like this ? |
| 02:39 | <@Consul> | There we go! |
| 02:39 | <@Vornicus> | normal bold normal |
| 02:39 | <@Consul> | Ctrl-B does the job. |
| 02:40 | <@Consul> | Now I can use tons of bold like you guys always do! |
| 02:40 | <@Consul> | Hang on... |
| 02:40 | <@Consul> | My bold is more gray than yours is. |
| 02:40 | <@McMartin> | REVERSE VIDEO is a sure sign of an unbalanced mind |
| 02:41 | <@McMartin> | That's your client being weird. It's uniform on irssi |
| 02:41 | <@Consul> | Does my text look bold to everyone else? |
| 02:42 | <@Consul> | So, now I need an idea for an art project using floppies. My first thought was to do some kind of pixel art, but that seems too obvious. |
| 02:43 | <@Consul> | Oh, I know why my bold looks more gray! Because my own text shows up as gray instead of black. Never mind. |
| 02:44 | <@Vornicus> | mine does too. |
| 03:09 | | Derakon[AFK] is now known as Derakon |
| 03:14 | <@Derakon> | Whee text styling. |
| 03:14 | <@Derakon> | (Sorry, I'm late to the show) |
| 03:15 | <@Consul> | I don't know how to do the reverse, and that's probably a good thing. |
| 03:21 | <@Serah> | Is my electronics the only electronics to regenerate?? |
| 03:21 | <@Serah> | I've had a dead pixel for 5 years, now it tends to wink out and be not-dead. |
| 03:22 | <@Serah> | My tape recorder when I was younger, I dropped it and it broke (filled the headphones with static) but after a while it was fine. |
| 03:24 | <@Serah> | And it's not the only incidents. |
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| 04:31 | <@ToxicFrog> | Serah: it's not just you. |
| 04:31 | <@Serah> | Oh? |
| 04:31 | <@ToxicFrog> | WRT: mysteriously healing electronics. |
| 04:36 | <@Serah> | I know the topic. |
| 04:36 | <@Serah> | Dunno what WRT man though. |
| 04:39 | <@ToxicFrog> | With Respect To. |
| 04:51 | <@Serah> | You experienced this? |
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| 04:57 | <@ToxicFrog> | Serah: yes. |
| 04:57 | <@ToxicFrog> | Most recently with a mysteriously resurrecting laptop. |
| 04:57 | <@Serah> | Hmmm... I wonder if it's the circuitry that burns a clearer path into the plastic, or... |
| 04:59 | <@ToxicFrog> | Just went totally dead one day, wouldn't even POST. |
| 04:59 | <@ToxicFrog> | Left it on my desk for a month and it started working fine again. |
| 05:28 | < Alek|away> | reverse is ctrl-R of course. |
| 05:28 | < Alek|away> | and underline, ctrl-U |
| 05:28 | < Alek|away> | and if you've forgotten what-all codes you've used, ctrl-O brings you back to normal. |
| 05:28 | < Alek|away> | then there's the ctrl-K color code set. |
| 05:41 | <@ToxicFrog> | Incidentally, these are respectively ^B, ^R, ^_, ^O and ^C in the underlying protocol |
| 05:42 | <@ToxicFrog> | ^X being the control code emitted by ctrl+X. |
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| 05:57 | <@Consul> | That was a bit scary. My computer spontaneously shut down and I heard a slight pop. |
| 05:57 | <@Consul> | It seems to still work, but I'm a but nervous now. |
| 05:57 | <@Derakon> | Might be a good idea to leave it off until you can give it a physical. |
| 05:58 | <@Consul> | Well, I do need to crack in anyway to reconnect an internal USB connector, so I'll do that tomorrow. |
| 05:59 | <@Consul> | I don't even know where to start. |
| 05:59 | <@Consul> | And I have no gear to test a computer anymore. |
| 05:59 | <@Consul> | Maybe I can find some bootable CD image out there somewhere with some diag software. |
| 06:01 | <@Consul> | I need to go to bed, but any suggestions would be welcome. Night, all. |
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