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More and more Linux-based stuff will run natively on Windows these days. Powershell is a good example of cross platform compatibility. Heck, you can run it on a Mac these days. -D > On Nov 25, 2018, at 4:30 PM, OK Don via Mercedes > wrote: > > Just found this while exploring Hyper-V for

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Thanks for the pointer. Sounds interesting. The article has some links I want to read too. OK Don via Mercedes November 25, 2018 at 3:30 PM Just found this while exploring Hyper-V for a Ubuntu machine: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about You don

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Just found this while exploring Hyper-V for a Ubuntu machine: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about You don't need Hyper-V to run Linux on a W10pro box! Haven't done it yet, but will try it in the future. On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 6:53 PM OK Don wrote: > This is being written from t

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This is being written from the new machine using the SSD. I ended up using AOMIE Backupper to clone the disk because it didn't hesitate at the two different sized drives. It was fast, painless, free, and "just worked". On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM fmiser via Mercedes wrote: > > Buggered wrot

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> Buggered wrote: > I have an XP box I use for my laser and CNC. The old HD started > making unhappy sounds and acting a bit funky so I’m figuring I > need to put in a new HD. My buddy gave me an old Maxtor high > quality drive, EIDE 1.2GB!!!, now I need to figure out how to > mirror the drive wit

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Need more than 40MB though, lots of files on the machine --FT On 11/23/18 9:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: I have tons of good, low hour 20MB and 40 MB EIDE drives, and some new ones still sealed in the bag.   I sold one to a CNC guy, and I've probably scrapped about 40 so far.  Mos

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Was 2012 the first retina MacBook? I had one and really liked it. The HD controller yacked on me, otherwise I'd still be using it. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: The “butterfly” keyboard.  It’s not going over well, an

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The “butterfly” keyboard. It’s not going over well, and they’ve already redesigned it due to the issues people have been having with it. Last really good laptop they made was the 2012 15” MacBook Pro. A beast of a machine and well built. Much like the 12” MacBook Pro of G4 days. -D > On Nov

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The new Touchbar Macs have the worst keyboards. The throw is too short, it's like a really cheap keyboard from the 90's. I like the laptop otherwise but the keyboard is crap... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Ahhh, how

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SWMBO has been upgraded to a 2008 macbook, my old i5 one. I use a t7 2008 one I bought cheep on fleabay. I got the mb repaired, and bought a SSD for it, so I have $300-350 in it. I hope it lasts a Log time. The battery in the i5 one expanded enough to warp the case last summer, an

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> On November 23, 2018 at 8:25 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > He does email, Internet and Word/Adobe documents. Nothing that’s remotely > Mac-centric or done better on a Mac. He ended up buying a fairly generic HP > laptop from Office Depot I recommended that maybe cost him $500-$600

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I have tons of good, low hour 20MB and 40 MB EIDE drives, and some new ones still sealed in the bag. I sold one to a CNC guy, and I've probably scrapped about 40 so far. Most have under 300 hours runtime. Sad, but time has passed them by, except for old CNC type stuff still running Winder 3

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Oops I just saw clonezilla I’ll get that --R Sent from iPhone > On Nov 23, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Buggered Benzmail > wrote: > > I have an XP box I use for my laser and CNC. The old HD started making > unhappy sounds and acting a bit funky so I’m figuring I need to put in a new > HD. My buddy ga

Re: [MBZ] OT - another computer question

I have an XP box I use for my laser and CNC. The old HD started making unhappy sounds and acting a bit funky so I’m figuring I need to put in a new HD. My buddy gave me an old Maxtor high quality drive, EIDE 1.2GB!!!, now I need to figure out how to mirror the drive with all the XP stuff over. I

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Ahhh, how far we’ve come…. I’m pretty much platform agnostic. I don’t care what someone uses as long as they’re comfortable using it and it does what they want. Good friend is an attorney. He needed a new laptop. His daughter, who I have known since she was a tot, tells Dad that, “Dan will t

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ISU had the Comp Service Mac labs set up in 1995 so that the image was restored from the server each time the Mac was started up. So if you sat down at a machine and found it goobered, all you had to do is restart the machine. I always did a cold restart out of principle. The Com Sci kids (

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Clonezilla and others like Ghost worked great. But long before them I was walking around with an external drive that had an image file (.dmg) for each one of the machines profiles I ran in the school. Rule was, if it took more than 10 minutes of my time to deal with, the machine (iMac) got ima

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Clonezilla is the bomb for that. Back in the XP days I kept server copies of all my classroom systems. I could restore the whole room in 20 minutes. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: It’s times like this that I’m glad I u

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I’m not saying I have problems with Windows machines - I work with them in an enterprise production environment daily, mainly at the server (2012, 2016) level. I’m just saying that Microsoft has never had a good way of migrating to a new machine that was a function of the OS. That is, somethin

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Unfortunately, my SSD did not come with cloning software - I'm building this new machine for Solidworks and image processing. The 10 yr old PC is running W10 fine, but is just too slow for 3D modeling. I'm going to re-purpose it with FreeNAS once the Z420 is set up. It must be a religious like thin

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Dan, I've used PC Mover to move from one PC/OS to another several times quickly and with no problems. I've also used the clone software which came with an SSD to move a regular HD to a SSD with no problems. The software will ask how you want to handle drive size mismatches. Windows is

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It’s times like this that I’m glad I use Macs. Youngest son just got a brand new PC with Windows 10. He had the hard drive from his old machine. How to migrate over? No easy way - have to use a third party utility to clone the old drive and then clone it to the new one. Took the better part

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In theory, Mirroring and breaking the set, (or just unplugging the spinning drive once the mirroring is done) should work. I have not used that method for cloning, so Ymmv... You may need to use a drive utility like gpartd to resize the 500 to 480 or less to make the mirroring happy. It may n

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The ssds that I have bought came with software to clone the drive. On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 17:21 OK Don via Mercedes I bought a used PC (HP Z420) with a hard drive that has a fresh load of W10 > Pro. I want to migrate this OS installation to and new SSD. The Z420 has > RAID on board, so can I mirro

[MBZ] OT - another computer question

I bought a used PC (HP Z420) with a hard drive that has a fresh load of W10 Pro. I want to migrate this OS installation to and new SSD. The Z420 has RAID on board, so can I mirror the two drives (one is 500GB, the SSD is 480GB) to replicate the installation, then break the mirror and remove the old