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This is an interesting article source from HowToGeek.com - ‘Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes that make me think of “How To Create Windows Blue Screen Of Death“.

What is Blue Screen O Death?

Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSOD or bluescreen) is an error screen displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage. Bluescreens can be caused by poorly written device drivers, faulty memory, a corrupt Registry, or incompatible DLLs. Bluescreens have been present in all Windows-based operating systems since Windows 3.1; OS/2 and MS-DOS suffered the Black Screen of Death, and early builds of Windows Vista displayed the Red Screen of Death after a boot loader error.

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Do you have a Rapidshare Premium Account? Yes? No? I would assume you don’t have any premium account and you must encounter the Rapidshare download limits problem before?

You have requested http://rapidshare.com/files/3229168/#####.rar (12345 KB).

Your IP-address ###.##.###.## is already downloading a file. You have to wait until it is finished.

Premium-accounts can download many files at the same time. Get your own Premium-Account now. Instant download-access!
If you are not downloading anything, you are using a proxy-server or a shared IP-address. A Premium-account solves this problem as well.

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Due to certain reasons, if you would like to delete your private data in your Linux machine,

You should try:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda

This command will overwrite the data stored on the /dev/sda partition with random junk, however, there is a disadvantage with using the dd command and that is the speed that it takes to overwriting the data.
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