What have you learned today?

[Afasoas]

A thread for your recently acquired valuable snippets of IT related knowledge.

Today I've learned that Windoze PowerShell* scripts/functions can handle switches as well as parameters.

Code: [Select]

Param(
    [switch]$R
    )

if($R) {
    write-host "I need to re-write this to do something when -R is specified"
}

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PS C:\Users\$myUser> D:\code\Common\Powershell\myScript.ps1 -R
I need to re-write this to do something when -R is specified
PS C:\Users\$myUser>
*necessary evil

[pcolbeck]

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

will take until the sun cools down to complete on a hard drive of modern capacity. Unless you are going to be carrying military grade secrets around on your hard drive its just not worth it.

[tiermat]

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

will take until the sun cools down to complete on a hard drive of modern capacity. Unless you are going to be carrying military grade secrets around on your hard drive its just not worth it.

Use bs=1024

[Afasoas]

There's a SSH Terminal Extension for Google Chrome!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo

[Canardly]

There is an ISO for brewing tea!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

[Zipperhead]

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

will take until the sun cools down to complete on a hard drive of modern capacity. Unless you are going to be carrying military grade secrets around on your hard drive its just not worth it.

Use bs=1024

bs=1024m

[tiermat]

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

will take until the sun cools down to complete on a hard drive of modern capacity. Unless you are going to be carrying military grade secrets around on your hard drive its just not worth it.

Use bs=1024

If you have more than a gig of free memory, yes. The idea is that, if you don't specify block size did will try to fill the disk in one fell swoop, using swap space to hold the contents of /dev/urandom. Obviously, if the disk is big it will lead to lots of disk thrashing.

bs=1024m

[Canardly]

There is a god mode for win 7 (and 8 apparently).