From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 21:47:38 PDT
On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 09:44 PM, Grant Hutchinson wrote:
> In a previous message, Norman Palardy typed vigorously:
>
>>> I gather this is a "Bad Thing"? For the benefit of us non-Unix heads,
>>> what exactly does this do? My guess is that it does something really
>>> nasty to your hard drive.........
>>
>> LOL .... think almost like format c:\
>
> Or placing a manual degausser on top of a running hard drive. Heh.
>
Isn't that like putting your finger in the light bulb socket and
switching the power on to see if it might work ?
It's very likely gonna hurt like hell
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