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Date of birth is a PII field under GDPR.
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I assumed it was something like that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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now that birthdays are verboten in the net-arena, what happens if OriginalGriff's brain stops keeping track ?
I use moon-cycles now, because total-months/13+(calculatephasefactor(dob, now)) means one more b-day is a smaller slice off the cut loaf.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I'm old and retired but I love programming enough that I regularly spend 3 or 4 hours a day coding and understand what I am doing so much more than I ever did before. I'm not available for hire though because no way will I work more than those 3 or 4 hours.
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john morrison leon wrote: I'm not available for hire though because no way will I work more than those 3 or 4 hours.
That should not be a big problem. You are probably going to be more productive than some working 8-10 hours 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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One more:
* The extended warranty on your gadgets is longer than your warranty 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As one of the seniors I wanted to respond to this... but seems
I don't remember now exactly what I wanted to say other
than I *do* purchase things and think "the last one I'll
ever need to buy - barring misadventure". One must always
allow for misadventure.
Time for my mid-morning nap before refactoring some NHibernate.
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You can also hide your own easter eggs.
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As to first. Bought a car in July. As little as I drive plus my advanced age, pretty good chance this will be the last car I ever buy.
Same with washer & dryer I replaced the last couple years.
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I have T-shirts that are older than many of the engineers that I work with these days. It amazes them that I instantly have solutions to almost all of their programming problems. I'm getting bored with saying "been there, done that."
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In my case, since my first language learnt was FORTRAN IV,
All code written today in a language like C#, resembles the FORTRAN coding paradigm.
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Amarnath S wrote: All code written today in a language like C#, resembles the FORTRAN coding paradigm
What are you smoking, and why didn't you bring enough to share? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I plan to live past 100. That means I'm not old - I'm just middle aged.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I've done a repartition and format, but I understand that I should shred it as well. When I tried the command "shred", it said it didn't understand the command. 
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I have never heard of the term "shred" in regards to the partitioning process.
This is a first.
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AFAIK, gparted does not have a shred option. There is a shred command available from the command line and you should be able to do
sudo shred -v /dev/sdX . That will erase the whole drive. I've not tried it but I expect that shed -v /dev/sdXP would erase partition P. Check the docs on that. Note that this will erase the formatting, so you'll have to recreate the file system(s) for any partitions you shred.
If you don't have shred installed, or can't install it for some reason, then you can use dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4M will overwrite the harddrive with all zeros. You might also use if=/dev/urandom, to write random-ish data over the drive before formatting.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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The system will be given to charity, so I don't care what condition the hard drive is in. 
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I did:
if=/dev/urandom
and the console window started printing random characters.
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Don't complicate yourself...
Data Removal: Darik's Boot and Nuke - DBAN[^]
Pretty easy to use and you can go from normal to paranoic level of deletion.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you formatted the drive - it is clean. What shred refers to is to deletion. Deleted files and folders are not actually removed. Deletion does not destroy the data itself. It only flips the flag in a file table that this particular data sector is no longer needed and can be overwritten should the drive volume get low. If the drive volume never gets low then the data which is not overwritten remains there perpetually and can be recovered. Byte 0 in FAT table: value 0x00 = unallocated and 0xE5 = deleted
modified 14-Sep-21 15:10pm.
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Since no one else has brought it up, I'll mention SDelete[^], part of the SysInternals suite of utilities. It can be used to do a "Secure Delete" with a variety of options.
Obligatory old fart war story:
Back in the early 1980's I was the system manager on several VAX/VMS systems at our local Air Force base. I went to a seminar on how to securely decommission magnetic media. At the time, most hard drives used 300MB disk packs[^]. The decommission procedure went something like this:
1. Use operating system commands to delete all data from pack.
2. Dismount and then remount pack (ensures no data is cached in drive).
3. Write pattern of 0x00's, then 0xFF's, then random bytes so all addressable sectors on drive.
4. Repeat step #3 several times (I think they wanted at least 8 cycles).
5. Dismount pack from drive.
6. Disassemble pack so that individual platter surfaces are accessible.
7. Sand-blast platter surfaces, removing all recording material.
8. Crush platter.
Most of us thought steps 5 through 8 were a tad... extreme. Dropping a pack from a height of a couple feet was usually enough to render it unusable.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Most of us thought steps 5 through 8 were a tad... extreme
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: 7. Sand-blast platter surfaces, removing all recording material.
8. Crush platter.
Sounds therapeutic.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you're gonna go through steps 6-8, then the previous steps seem rather pointless to me...
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