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Secure your passwords, files, drives.

I have a problem which most of us are facing.

How many usernames and passwords are you keeping track of ? Or even the email address that you used to create that account with ? Admit it, most of us have more than 1 email address. 🙂
So how do you keep track of them ? Save into a spreadsheet ? Are they secured ? Most spreadsheets built-in protection are not good enough.

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Track your host uptime

I was looking for a host uptime tracking service and I found Host-Tracker. http://host-tracker.com/

Now I can track my site uptime and the sampling time can be set at every 1 min ! Most other free services offer 15mins to 30mins which is just not good enough.

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Crashed IDE Harddisk, Low Level Formating, Secure Harddisk Wipe/Shred

When I plugged in my USB harddisk to my PC, to my horror, I started to hear some kind of clicking sound and the harddisk is trying to spin up and stop repeatively.

So I looked at my system’s dmesg messages and realised my HDD is a goner. My OS is unable to mount the vfat partition.

Remove the 2.5in harddisk from my USB casing and connected it back into my IBM X21, inserted an Ubuntu 5.10 LiveCD. Once Gnome desktop came up, I tried to mount the partition again, this time is successful !

I managed to save most of my data except 2 ISO files which I suspected they are residing on the harddisk bad sectors. I ran the harddisk diagnostic tool, guess what, bad blocks were detected.
Googled around and found a site with most of the different harddisk vendors’ Low Level Formatting tools. At the same time, I decided to “nuke” my harddisk.

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