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[00:12:15] <rue_house> under linux, do cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
[00:12:21] <rue_house> it will fill the drive with zeros
[00:17:02] <rue_house> it takes about 1 sec to erase what you need, then you can just stop it
[09:02:05] <Tom_itx> that helped. thanks
[09:07:01] <rue_house> microsoft dosn't set up the boot properly, so you have to do that when moving form linux
[09:07:33] <Tom_itx> so ssd works on legacy pc and also boots on my newer itx board now
[09:07:44] <Tom_itx> do you know if win7 will dualboot?
[09:15:59] <rue_house> microsofts goal is to make it so only windows 10 can be used on pc hardware, I'm gonna lean towards no
[09:16:10] <rue_house> however, grub will multiboot them
[09:16:50] <Tom_itx> i may just install NT or XP on it then
[09:33:01] <Tom_itx> 7 seems to be installing on the 2nd partition so we
[09:33:03] <Tom_itx> 'll see
[10:28:23] <Tom_itx> well, win7 takes over, no dual boot. on to try NT or XP
[19:19:34] <Tom_itx> yay! xp will dual boot
[20:08:06] <Tom_itx> hah, dos boots on my gigabit quad core MB
[20:08:20] <Tom_itx> from ssd...
[20:09:29] <Tom_itx> now i have even more backup options
[21:55:14] <katsmeow> <cough>
[21:58:39] * Tom_itx sneeze
[22:00:51] <katsmeow> wanna see pics?
[22:04:23] <Tom_itx> of?
[22:04:28] <Tom_itx> sure
[22:05:05] <katsmeow> http://designerthinking.com/images/elevator/elevator3.html
[22:06:14] <katsmeow> the north wall piece, which is already painted but not set in place, i forgot about that when i made the webpage
[22:06:14] <Tom_itx> looks like you been busy
[22:07:02] <katsmeow> today was the first day in the entire project that i could work most of the day, it was only 85F and heavy clouds
[22:07:19] <katsmeow> had to stop @ 5pm today for rain , which is why i was painting @ 8am
[22:13:26] <Tom_itx> finally got a dos bootable ssd to work on new MB
[22:13:52] <katsmeow> i didn't know dos knew about ssds
[22:16:25] <Tom_itx> running a dual boot ssd with dos and xp
[22:18:06] <Tom_L> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtsFzpxmYzU
[22:18:08] <Tom_itx> wow
[22:20:55] <katsmeow> it's not often one sees that
[22:21:30] <Tom_itx> had it hit the tree out front here a couple years ago
[22:21:43] <Tom_itx> can see the burn marks all the way from top to bottom
[22:21:51] <Tom_itx> surprised it's still living
[22:24:20] <katsmeow> lightning got a few here too, the one hit 10ft from teh house popped every circuit breaker, and flash evaporated the dialup line laying on my desk to the back of the puter, killed the modem too, puter still was running
[22:24:56] <katsmeow> the phone line was simply *missing*, and a burned line across the desk
[22:31:53] <katsmeow> hmm, 450v 1.8u caps, 1000 of them, no bids
[22:47:13] <katsmeow> 128 PCS NIPPON CHEMICON SMH450VN561M40X45T4 CAPACITOR
[22:47:31] <katsmeow> that's a LOT of capacitor power
[22:51:23] <katsmeow> odd, i have been so exhausted and such this afternoon that i only now noticed i have more tar on my face than usual
[22:52:33] <katsmeow> New listing 9000 PCS JAMICON CZM331M1AF10W CAPACITORS
[22:52:51] <katsmeow> 9000 capacitors, no bids!
[22:53:17] <katsmeow> 2,970,000ufd @ 10v
[23:25:27] <katsmeow> i have had enough kahlua to think that washing my face in WD40 is a good idea, to get the extra tar off it
[23:27:02] <katsmeow> ok then, no one talking