tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230347.post1770208813508724052..comments2023-11-02T11:15:25.522-04:00Comments on Linux & Things: Did Bono Approve This?rcjhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05775355479914145966noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230347.post-88726856367252310472007-03-24T12:51:00.000-04:002007-03-24T12:51:00.000-04:00Well, I finally found a little courage, plugged th...Well, I finally found <A HREF="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthewizardofozcourage.html" REL="nofollow">a little courage</A>, plugged the U3 drive in our XP box, and used the <A HREF="http://www.u3.com/uninstall/" REL="nofollow">U3 uninstaller</A> to delete the partition. Of course, I had to page through marketing telling me that I was throwing away all sorts of really rcjhawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05775355479914145966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6230347.post-67308303832929656652007-03-08T07:15:00.000-05:002007-03-08T07:15:00.000-05:00There's no way I would tolerate a hidden Windows p...There's no way I would tolerate a hidden Windows partition on my hardware - what a great backdoor for rootkits!<BR/><BR/>I can't speak for your brand, but I have one standard practice for every storage media: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/media (where its mounted) then fdisk and make a new partition, then mkfs.ext2. And I've done it with two smaller, even cheaper flash drives. In fact, I even have one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com