Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
On 1/25/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop > box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being > part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have > never come

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
All very interesting, the fact is that a hard drive is a physical medium and the magnetic field is very malleable. It is very possible to recover the data even if some random trash has been written over it. The way hard drives use elaborate algorithyms to 'guess' the contents with huge accuracy s