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Best ways to remove *BSD from your drive
Displaying poll results.
rm -rf   0% 0 / 0%
fdisk   0% 0 / 0%
big magnet   0% 0 / 0%
big explosion   0% 0 / 0%
burn the computer, scatter the ashes, and salt the earth upon which it stood   0% 1 / 100%
CowboyRob   0% 0 / 0%
1 total vote that matters.

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    Poll: Best ways to remove *BSD from your drive
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    The Fine Print: The following comments are the stupid ideas of whoever posted them. We do not agree with them in any way.
    Thermite! (Score:-3, Interesting)
    by Shmo on Monday December 20, @03:11AM
    Hey, what about thermite? My dad used to work for the CIA, and they had this lab where all the disks had thermite built in, so that they could melt them down instantly.
    OpenBSD Rocks! (Score:-2, Informative)
    by Frodo on Monday December 20, @03:55AM
    This site sucks! OpenBSD kicks ass. It hasn't had a remote exploit in the default install since 1957!
    Re: OpenBSD Rocks! (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Seth on Monday December 20, @03:51AM
    that's because it doesn't do anything. any os will be free of remote exploits if it doesnt talk to the rest of the world.

    -sv

    don't use rm -rf (Score:-4, Informative)
    by goat on Monday December 20, @04:11AM
    You guys know that rm -rf is dangerous, right? You really shouldn't use it. I wrote a perl script that is much safer. Just alias rm to this script and you'll be good to go.
    @P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
    @p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
    ($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
    close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print
    
    Re: don't use rm -rf (Score:-5, Informative)
    by uhoh on Monday December 20, @04:20AM
    WARNING!!!

    DO NOT USE THE PERL SCRIPT IN THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE! It will delete any files that you give it on the command line!

    OSX (Score:-3, Informative)
    by macboy on Monday December 20, @04:34AM
    bsd sucks, you should chedk out OSX it has a good gui and I heard it runs on linux
    Re: OSX (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by Seth on Monday December 20, @04:31AM
    so much pain

    osx does not run on linux. it runs on bsd. this is the whole reason why bsd licenses are bad. they let companies absorb open source software and not give anything back to the community.

    -sv

    linux (Score:-1)
    by LinuxMan on Monday December 20, @04:57AM
    I tried freebsd for a while and it really sucked. It was like two weeks before I reinstalled linux on top of it (and only that long because I had to wait for a weekend).
    don't need to. (Score:-2, Funny)
    by UpYours on Monday December 20, @05:02AM
    I'm not stupid enough to install it in the first place!