Copy of the same question I posted in the thread Ralph rightly closed.

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My IE is set to reload page every time it is referenced, yet I save for 2 days. Does that make sense?

Why save for 2 days if I will never use it. I shoud save for 0 days? Or set to not reload. Then I have to remember to click "Refresh" all the time?
Mac
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It seems illogical to me. What should I do?

For now, to be consistent, I have
- Save for 2 days
- Never reload unless I hit Refresh

Could have done
- Never save
- Reload every time the page is referenced.

Discussion? Opinion? WHOGAS?

Mac

 

I save them for a while because I have lost them and wish I had them back once in a while.

After all, isn't that part of what makes computers useful? When you forget...........

Ted

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54053 (see "CLEARING YOUR BROWSER HISTORY")

I'm not sure if IE6 or IE5 has this feature, but in IE7 under the browsing history (Temporary Internet Files) settings, you have the option to check "for newer versions of stored pages" every time you visit the Web page. Basically, you wouldn't need Temporary Internet Files (aka "the browser cache") anymore.


If a Web page does things correctly (i.e. by setting the "Last-Modified" HTTP header and using "Cache-Control" (HTTP 1.1 only)) and the browser uses the headers correctly, then those settings are useless. For a chatroom, the Last-Modified header should be dynamically updated when the page is reloaded. As a result, the browser checks (or is supposed to check) the page and download anything that is new.

That is how it SHOULD be done. Unfortunately, not all content authors are aware of such things. For that reason, your setting of reloading every time is sometimes a necessity.


In any case, I've given my thoughts on the IE settings you mentioned. Have fun with it. ^_^

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The stupid suspect does not even know there is a history, so he doesn't clear it. It is easy pickings.

However, if a clever person were safeguarding, there is little likelyhood they can find so much. After an erase of a file and a defrag, the file is most likely overwritten or corrupt. Especially FAT partition.

Let CP = c h i l d     +    p o r n o
in this memo so that random scan of internet doesn't find this and harrass me just because I mention it at all.

OK

I think what happens is that the FBI suspect someone of being a CP doer.

So they pick him up and confiscate his computer and go to Outlook Express and click on "Send Mail" and see every mail he sent, because he never clears and wonders why he has to get bigger disks. (My "Sent Mail" is nearly always empty).

So they search for CP and find it and then go brag as if they have magic software that can reconstruct data. Good advertisement for the FBI.

When actually, they are just using minimal Windows skills.

Mac

 

You can shred and overwrite data, but there are no guarantees that everything is gone! Formatting cannot take some data off of the HD..........Data can still be found because of the fact that it can be placed anywhere and empty places get the data that is not overwritten sometimes. The only way to be sure is to overwrite everything and save it on a CD or floppy they can find also.

Ted

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(ls /dev/{h,s}d?)
do
dd if=/dev/zero of=${i} >/dev/null 2>&1 #overwrite each disk with zeroes
dd if=/dev/random of=${i} >/dev/null 2>&1 #overwrite each disk with random values
dd if=/dev/zero of=${i} >/dev/null 2>&1 #same as the first dd line
dd if=/dev/random of=${i} >/dev/null 2>&1 #same as the second dd line
done
#===END===

That should suffice for the most part on Linux. Also, the reason for the redirection is to prevent errors from coming up. After all, you can't format a CD or DVD or whatever using such methods. ^_^

You can also get a form of dd for Windows, but Windows isn't quite so dynamic as to be able to format things so easily like that. After all, Windows doesn't have a command to list the devices, except for maybe mountvol, but that lists a lot of other stuff that you don't need like the current mountpoints and the usage of mountvol. In short, you usually need to know ALL of your device names beforehand. -_-'

Personally, I would just use the latest version of the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) to wipe my drives. I believe the hard disk formatting tools allow you to use the Guttmann option for deleting data. It uses 35 passes over the data, I guess, whereas NSA normally uses 7 from what I know. 35 may seem like overkill, but if you really want to erase your data to protect your privacy, that is sometimes necessary. #_#



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