Thank you for your kind words, but in all honesty I cannot claim any credit for
the incredibly well thought UNIX operating system. The people that designed
and implemented uNIX are far more intelligent than I and it goes without saying
their combined intellects are truly remarkable. Not only t
btw, I know of a few folks that retired from bell labs. One holds some 28
patents for modification of the old mechanical telco switches to handle digital
data. He lives just up the road in peoria az. He is the one that taught me a
few tricks with linux. :)
-eric
On Dec 9, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Sco
heh. this comes from being a full time linux user as well. :)
I have a windows laptop here, but I use it mostly for programming radios. I
much prefer the mac for web browsing, email and media playing. btw, most of the
linux/unix tools are available via console on the mac.
-eric
On Dec 9, 2016,
I’m such a fan of the Unix environments. You all did good work at Bell labs.
Consider how long Unix has held up as the standard now. It’s as important
today as ever and I don’t see a time when it won’t be. Well done!
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Bill Gallik wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I wan
Hi Eric,
I want to thank you for putting that DD commandline out there, I worked for
many years at AT&T Bell laboratories were all development work was done on UNIX
systems and I completely forgotten about the DD command. Nice to have a
refresher.
Paul,
Eric is making a very sound suggestion
well, you could always use dd. The command I would use is: dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/ and then let it run. it might take a while to
erase, but there will not even be partition information on there afterward.
after that, you can use disk utility to repartition and format that usb device.
-eric
On
Paul,
The encryption issue can be addressed by reformatting the drive with the
appropriate selection in Disk Utility. I believe the key to resolving your
problem here is to correct the situation that prevents you from using Disk
Utility on this drive, but there’s a number of possibilities pote
Hello,
Further to my earlier post about erasing a folder without going via trash…..
I I am running the latest El Capitan on my late 2008 iMac.
I have a 256 GB memory stick with I have used as a time machine backup disk
with encryption. I have also used it as the target disk for a SuperDuper!
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