I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Really nice and comprehensive looking page. Should probably test drive that some day. Thanks.

PHP warning.

Nobody’s been riled up. You need to go to Reddit for that :)

Yes. Got to admit mine just isn’t as big as yours, though.

Really? A whole instance?

Wait till you try transparent pngs. It’ll be like it should have always been.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/one-bad-apple-spoil-the-barrel-metaphor-phrase

Firewalls set and enforce policy. Closed ports are only incidentally secure. Also, they can do a lot more than answer “nothing is listening here”.

Also, antivirus is the wrong idea there. What you’d want is an intrusion detection and/or integrity checking system.

Culture and science.