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Tuesday 14 April 2009, 4:32 AM
Give Your Windows Computer a Career
I've discovered an easy way to keep a P4 computer busy for a Looooonnnngggg time. Do a FULL Scan in Windows Defender. I admit that my system is not typical. It has 1.6 TB of used drive space on 6 drives. I expected that it would take some time. Ouch. It ran for 29 1/2 hours.
The idea was to scan it all and then start transferring files from the NTFS partitions on the Windows box to the ext3 partitions on Debbietoo. I just didn't want to transfer the malware too.
As I empty the drives, I install them in Debbietoo and re-format them as more ext3 volumes. Yes I know that I can mount NTFS volumes in Debian. Its too scary though to attempt to write on NTFS under Debian.
Too bad none of its billable time.
The idea was to scan it all and then start transferring files from the NTFS partitions on the Windows box to the ext3 partitions on Debbietoo. I just didn't want to transfer the malware too.
As I empty the drives, I install them in Debbietoo and re-format them as more ext3 volumes. Yes I know that I can mount NTFS volumes in Debian. Its too scary though to attempt to write on NTFS under Debian.
Too bad none of its billable time.
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