Re: Shutting down lessens computer life............

> On December 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > On Lu, 09 dec 13, 17:21:11, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > > I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's > > bound to go wrong. > > What about not well used laptops? Seriously, as far as I recall my > Thinkpad i

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

> On November 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM Andre Majorel wrote: > > Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last > time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its > current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the PID > of your dd(1) process then kill -USR1 from ti

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

> On November 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM Miles Fidelman > wrote: > What are other people's experiences? How many folks here use Windows > (or Mac o/s) on the same machine as a linux distribution? Do you > dual-boot or do you virtualize? Besides needing Windows for work and applications that aren't port