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How To Backup And Restore The MBR

You are a geek therefore you can't trust your self to not render a system unbootable. Specially if you are about to boot from more than one operating system which is done incorrectly could result in getting a blank screen. BTW: The MBR holds partition data and Operating System boot...
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Linux: CentOS 6.0 Released

CentOS 6.0 is out of the oven and ready for download. If you are planning on dowloading 6.0 then I recommend making use of the Torrent files, you will get better download speeds and integrity on such huge file. I've linked to the Torrent files for each architecture in case you...
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Check For Bad Sectors On A Drive With Badblocks

At home I have a pfSense firewall, the thing about my firewall is that I did a full installation on a Compact Flash card. Because, I want the benefits of a full installation like not loosing RRD graphs in case someone accidentally pulls the plug. The downside of using Compact...
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Parted Magic: Erase A Hard Drive

I have blogged several times before about Parted Magic the open source live distribution that can do pretty much anything(test, backup, partition) when dealing with drives. This time I will focus on a specific tool found on Parted Magic meant to provide a method for the secure wipe or deletion...
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