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

2013-12-11 Thread Russell Powers
On December 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-11-12 Thread Russell Powers
On November 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net 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

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

2013-11-12 Thread Russell Powers
On November 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM Andre Majorel aym-nai...@teaser.fr 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