Omid Mafi

Windows XP SP3 is on the way. A cumulative service pack that currently is available on Beta only for testers. but some guys are seeding it's Torrent and have uploaded it to rapidshare 

(Windows XP SP3 Build 3244 - Torrent)
(Windows XP SP3 Build 3244 - RapidShare Link: Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4)

I've replaced my five hard disks, full of personal stuff propagated in some partitions and many folders, with two new Seagate disks. (Good to mention: I'm not satisfied with these new disks; they are too noisy, get on my nerves!)

I used DBAN [Darik], a lovely tool, to wipe out all the disks. This time it was really needed.
DBAN creates bootable floppy disk, USB flash or CDROM (through Iso image) and it will DELETE all the attached hard disks at the next boot time. Depending on the level of security it reported me to wait from 6 hours to 18 hours.

It is a fact that even forcing a complete format does not mean that the data cannot be recovered by someone else! It is a point that many people ignore.

Peter Gutmann has a white paper about "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" 
 

Konstantinov Andrey has created a very handy tool to create JAR eBooks named mjBookMaker. Comparing with TequilaCat or ReadManiac, I've found it simpler. It's ideal for reading books on any java enabled mobile phone that does not support PDF readers. I didn't find a place to thank him on his page so I would like to leave a comment here to say: "Thanks konstantinov" ;-).

I addition, ManyBooks is an interesting place to find free books. It even has a on-site conversion tool that enables the user to download books in a variety of formats like JAR files (Actually I found mjBook link there).  Thanks to the founder ;-)