The best way to backup a system partition for Windows is "offline" with a system like Ghost or dd. It's probably better for Linux too but Linux is generally less pissy about accessing open files.
It's important to work out exactly what needs to be backed off and what needs to be archived. I finally got around to doing proper tape backups of my home file server. I back up the OS files (So I can get back up and running quickly) and "volatile" data (photographs that haven't been archived yet, budget spreadsheets and work-in-progress type stuff). I explicitly exclude from the backup anything that's archived (except a few "very important" things) and anything that's trivially replaced (Though I do try and make sure I archive this stuff too).
Shorter backups mean shorter restores, the backups are less likely to fail and you're putting less wear on the hardware.
The majority libertarian position does, from my experience, appear to be pro-choice. However, that is not completely the case and it can be argued that when intercourse was consentual, there is an implied contract of support. If I offer you a ride in my spaceship, I can't morally just suddenly turn off the air because the spaceship is my property.
Personally, I'm not heavily invested in the pro/anti abortion thing so don't care to argue it particularly. I do feel that most opinion (on both sides) on the subject is not rationally based however.
Absolutely. I believe there have even been studies that "gift giving" by employers is valued far out of scale to what it actually costs. 25c per employee per day might seem like an unnecessary cost but the "pat on the head" it represents would cost much more to obtain in actual hard cash.
That's nothing. When I was a kid, we only had three channels, all of which shut down around midnight. And we watched on a black and white television with broken sound and listened on one with a broken picture which was sat next to it.
The word discrimination has a meaning and this is a reasonable example of it. The difference is legal and illegal discrimination (which again is different from whether the discrimination is right or not).
What you're missing is that your crypto-communistic ideas are long proven to be completely flawed and untenable outside of lala land.
The best outcome of any revolution would be a vestigial government allowing individuals to trade goods and services as unencumbered as possible. If some make good, so much the better. Inequality is not necessarily inequitable.
Many of the kwiksets out there can be defeated with just a screwdriver. I suspect the result is simlar to the technique using the tools you describe. Thin metal and poor design...
Heh, I remember when that was incredibly hard to get hold of back in the day and you had to hang around on alt.locksmithing for months. There's still people on there that think everything to do with locks should be guild secrets and letting them out would put them all out of business. Truth is, like with most things, people have no time to mess with such things and will just pay a pro anyway.
Break a window. This requires little in the way of tools -- just something so that you can hit the window. The big benefit is that it's easy. You don't need to spend a couple weeks practicing how to break a window. The big drawbacks are that it's noisy and leaves plain evidence visible from the outside (in non-rural areas) that might trigger a neighbor or passing car to call the police. It also presents an opportunity to cut yourself. Finally, the more you disrupt when breaking in, the more evidence you're likely to leave. If you cut yourself for instance, there's a good chance you're gonna miss some blood and the police will get your DNA.
It should be pointed out that it's very easy to get in to a house (in general) so in that respect, locks are not especially helpful. However, since the presumed object is to depart with quantities of your stuff, it can be a good plan to use deadbolts (which means a key is required to exit the house via the doors). Let's see your burgular exit the kitchen window with your 40" flatscreen TV under his arm...
The scene: A badly lit office somewhere in America. Empty pizza boxes are scattered around and a plush penguin lies face down on the floor.
Sounds of death and destruction come from the corner. Panning around, we see a Slashdot editor (it doesn't matter which one) hunched over a keyboard playing the latest version of quake or WoW or Everquest (it doesn't matter which one). Almost inaudible, a "beep beep beep" sounds from watch on the editor's wrist. It's time for a new Slashdot article. He looks up at his second monitor to the open "Slashdot Submitted Articles" page and scans frantically for the words "Microsoft", "SCO" or "Patent" (it doesn't matter which one) clicks quickly at the "accept" button (maybe he gets the button for the previous article, maybe the next. It doesn't matter which one) then gets back to the real business of the day, some serious, hard-core fragging.
If you are doing 35 in a 55, you are inviting people to overtake you (itself a maneuver which carries risks). If you are doing so on a road which is long and which doesn't have many good places to overtake, you are encouraging boneheaded overtaking.
The responsibility for safe overtaking is with the overtaker to be sure but there's a reason why TN law states that if you are travelling slower than 10mph below the speed limit and there are cars behind you, you should pull over or off the road (if only cyclists would take note).
No, he was saying it is the fault of the artificially low speed limit which causes the law abiding citizen to go at a speed less than is safe in the general flow of traffic.
Raising the speed limit, you would still have speeders but the speed differential would be less.
I can think of several places where the road dictates speeds slower than the speed limit and guess what? People slow down at those places. Setting the speed limits appropriate to the conditions is the sane thing to do.
Your analog system in the states must *really* have sucked. My mr30 from 1996 would get three days on a full charge. My L7089 from '99 would get nearly a week. This was in the UK. Some of the nokias did even better.
My L7089 from 1999 (which I still use from time to time) would get nearly a week on a full charge (and there were others at the time that would do even better). The last few phones I have had have done significantly worse (The T720 abysmally so, often discharging within a day). Mostly due to the fancy backlit color displays I have no doubt.
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The best way to backup a system partition for Windows is "offline" with a system like Ghost or dd. It's probably better for Linux too but Linux is generally less pissy about accessing open files.
Rich
+1 insightful if I had mod points.
It's important to work out exactly what needs to be backed off and what needs to be archived. I finally got around to doing proper tape backups of my home file server. I back up the OS files (So I can get back up and running quickly) and "volatile" data (photographs that haven't been archived yet, budget spreadsheets and work-in-progress type stuff). I explicitly exclude from the backup anything that's archived (except a few "very important" things) and anything that's trivially replaced (Though I do try and make sure I archive this stuff too).
Shorter backups mean shorter restores, the backups are less likely to fail and you're putting less wear on the hardware.
Rich
OMG, exponential
The majority libertarian position does, from my experience, appear to be pro-choice. However, that is not completely the case and it can be argued that when intercourse was consentual, there is an implied contract of support. If I offer you a ride in my spaceship, I can't morally just suddenly turn off the air because the spaceship is my property.
Personally, I'm not heavily invested in the pro/anti abortion thing so don't care to argue it particularly. I do feel that most opinion (on both sides) on the subject is not rationally based however.
Rich
Absolutely. I believe there have even been studies that "gift giving" by employers is valued far out of scale to what it actually costs. 25c per employee per day might seem like an unnecessary cost but the "pat on the head" it represents would cost much more to obtain in actual hard cash.
Rich
"TV", it's a right, not a privilege.
Give me a break...
Rich
That's nothing. When I was a kid, we only had three channels, all of which shut down around midnight. And we watched on a black and white television with broken sound and listened on one with a broken picture which was sat next to it.
The sad thing is, that's all totally true.
Rich
The word discrimination has a meaning and this is a reasonable example of it. The difference is legal and illegal discrimination (which again is different from whether the discrimination is right or not).
Rich
What you're missing is that your crypto-communistic ideas are long proven to be completely flawed and untenable outside of lala land.
The best outcome of any revolution would be a vestigial government allowing individuals to trade goods and services as unencumbered as possible. If some make good, so much the better. Inequality is not necessarily inequitable.
Bump this guy up
Where do we insert the key?
No, you get the wrong idea. It's now illegal to hire chainsaws in England (as I found out when I tried to).
Rich
Many of the kwiksets out there can be defeated with just a screwdriver. I suspect the result is simlar to the technique using the tools you describe. Thin metal and poor design...
Rich
Since when are *any* words not made up?
Heh, I remember when that was incredibly hard to get hold of back in the day and you had to hang around on alt.locksmithing for months. There's still people on there that think everything to do with locks should be guild secrets and letting them out would put them all out of business. Truth is, like with most things, people have no time to mess with such things and will just pay a pro anyway.
Rich
Cabinet locks are a piece of piss compared to standard pin tumblers (which is not to say that your average pin tumbler is up to much).
Break a window. This requires little in the way of tools -- just something so that you can hit the window. The big benefit is that it's easy. You don't need to spend a couple weeks practicing how to break a window. The big drawbacks are that it's noisy and leaves plain evidence visible from the outside (in non-rural areas) that might trigger a neighbor or passing car to call the police. It also presents an opportunity to cut yourself. Finally, the more you disrupt when breaking in, the more evidence you're likely to leave. If you cut yourself for instance, there's a good chance you're gonna miss some blood and the police will get your DNA.
It should be pointed out that it's very easy to get in to a house (in general) so in that respect, locks are not especially helpful. However, since the presumed object is to depart with quantities of your stuff, it can be a good plan to use deadbolts (which means a key is required to exit the house via the doors). Let's see your burgular exit the kitchen window with your 40" flatscreen TV under his arm...
Rich
The scene: A badly lit office somewhere in America. Empty pizza boxes are scattered around and a plush penguin lies face down on the floor.
Sounds of death and destruction come from the corner. Panning around, we see a Slashdot editor (it doesn't matter which one) hunched over a keyboard playing the latest version of quake or WoW or Everquest (it doesn't matter which one). Almost inaudible, a "beep beep beep" sounds from watch on the editor's wrist. It's time for a new Slashdot article. He looks up at his second monitor to the open "Slashdot Submitted Articles" page and scans frantically for the words "Microsoft", "SCO" or "Patent" (it doesn't matter which one) clicks quickly at the "accept" button (maybe he gets the button for the previous article, maybe the next. It doesn't matter which one) then gets back to the real business of the day, some serious, hard-core fragging.
Rich
To society there is not any nessecary cost since the system is part of the society, it employs a lot of people for example.
Google for "the broken window fallacy".
Rich
Too long. I suggest you abbreviate to TBYATFAYSU
Rich
If we're going to put it in politicians' cars, might be an idea to add in a sound recording device too... link
"Won't somebody think of the children?"
Vomit
If you are doing 35 in a 55, you are inviting people to overtake you (itself a maneuver which carries risks). If you are doing so on a road which is long and which doesn't have many good places to overtake, you are encouraging boneheaded overtaking.
The responsibility for safe overtaking is with the overtaker to be sure but there's a reason why TN law states that if you are travelling slower than 10mph below the speed limit and there are cars behind you, you should pull over or off the road (if only cyclists would take note).
Rich
No, he was saying it is the fault of the artificially low speed limit which causes the law abiding citizen to go at a speed less than is safe in the general flow of traffic.
Raising the speed limit, you would still have speeders but the speed differential would be less.
I can think of several places where the road dictates speeds slower than the speed limit and guess what? People slow down at those places. Setting the speed limits appropriate to the conditions is the sane thing to do.
Rich
Your analog system in the states must *really* have sucked. My mr30 from 1996 would get three days on a full charge. My L7089 from '99 would get nearly a week. This was in the UK. Some of the nokias did even better.
My L7089 from 1999 (which I still use from time to time) would get nearly a week on a full charge (and there were others at the time that would do even better). The last few phones I have had have done significantly worse (The T720 abysmally so, often discharging within a day). Mostly due to the fancy backlit color displays I have no doubt.