Geoffrey Garbers

I would much rather host with a hosting company in South Africa.
Recently, I did some research with a view to move away from my current US-based hosting provider (A Small Orange) in favour of a South African-based provider.
The comparisons only made me realise how little I pay for what I get, and what great value for money I’m getting!

If you’re running Linux, have you ever had that feeling of dread after deleting a whole chunk of code accidentally? Code that hasn’t been checked into a repository, or backed up. A lot of websites will foretell of long hours of recovery if you’re running an EXT3 or EXT4 partition with journaling. This post details how I managed to find and use a nifty little utility that recovered almost all of my files for me, in very little time too.

Need to know how to erase your personal data on a hard-drive before selling it or sending it in for repairs? So did I. So set about getting to grips with the Linux utility called “shred”. In this post, I’ll show you how I managed to remove my personal data from my drive using this utility.