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| Personal background |
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| I run Seti@home on several computers at home and at work, from a PII-233 (18 hours/unit) laptop through to a dual-1.2ghz Athlon system (2 units every 6 hours, with one copy each of screensaver and command-line Seti running). I also participate in some other BOINC projects such as the climate predition model. |
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One of my computer interests recently has become data recovery - the seemingly mundane topic of recovering deleted and "temporary" files from computers. It's not the technical aspect of it that's interesting (you can find hundreds of tools on the internet to do this kinda stuff), but the social aspect of it. I find it quite interesting that even supposedly computer-literate people don't know the true extent of what's stored on your computer, and what can be so easily recovered. Moreover - it's not really the recovered files themselves that are interesting, but analyzing what it was that they deleted in the first place.
Go buy a used laptop or computer at a garage sale, download some tools from the internet and give it a try. You'll likely find tons of interesting temporary files from their internet browsing (even if they were never saved to disk by th e user), deleted files, and more.
Kevin Cazabon, www.cazabon.com
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