As much as this sounds good. Don’t let an NDP partisan fool you.
Don’t stop.
29Jul15, Win 10 and you.
If you haven’t signed up, wait. If you have, then I recommend using Clonezilla this weekend to snapshot your hard drive. MSFT has assured us that all machines running Win7 or Win8/8.1 will support Win10. I guess we’ll see.
Clonezilla is a Linux based boot disk (CD/USB) that will ‘ghost’ your drive sector by sector. It writes a recoverable image to an external USB drive. If you speak the language, it’s basically dd > tar > gz, although it offers a variety of options.
I plan on running it tonight on my Win7 machine that will be upgraded to Win10 on the 29th.
It’s a very easy program to use, just _read_ all of the dialog screens. There’s only two things you really need to be absolutely sure of:
Which is the device you’re writing to, and
Which is the device you’re reading from.
You really don’t want to get those mixed up.
On average, over USB 2.0, it’ll take about 1 hour per 100G of data depending on the data. It compresses and packs the data in (default) 2GB files. It’s a sector copy so you can’t use it to retrieve specific files, it will recover all of the drive, all of a partition, or nothing.
I use it on every machine that comes into my shop, before I start working on it. If I screw up and make a machine unusable, I need to be able to return the machine back to the state in which I received it. I’ve recovered from the clonezilla images exactly twice, once on WinXP and once on Win7. Both recoveries performed as expected.
Instructions are on the site on how to burn the ISO’s to a CDROM or to extract the Zip file to a USB thumb device, so all you really need is a suitably sized external USB hard drive.
SJW’s lose another.
Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement.
Some Ellen Pao background.
The Reddit Revolt won.
Why does the new generation fight and win and the old generation continually lose? Because the new generation knows the rules. It isn’t about winning the argument, it’s about collecting scalps and counting the bodies.
#Gamergate.
Oh, Shiny Pony
“She still has to win the nomination.”
And surprising no one, it looks like the hand-picked nominee, will.
Parbunkells
Settled Science
But the commentators ignore all these caveats and babble on about warming of “up to” four degrees (or even more), then castigate as a “denier” anybody who says, as I do, the lower end of the scale looks much more likely given the actual data. This is a deliberate tactic. Following what the psychologist Philip Tetlock called the “psychology of taboo”, there has been a systematic and thorough campaign to rule out the middle ground as heretical: not just wrong, but mistaken, immoral and beyond the pale. That’s what the word denier with its deliberate connotations of Holocaust denial is intended to do. For reasons I do not fully understand, journalists have been shamefully happy to go along with this fundamentally religious project.
#NotACult
Link fixed.
Saskatchewan stands for freedom.
So the activists have their knickers in a knot over the idea that Saskatchewan showed some backbone.
The money quote:
They stressed menthol is the flavour of choice by youth with 30 per cent of youth using menthol products.
Math is hard.
You might be a liberal if….
Via Drudge, A coffee clerk who wants free stuff but doesn’t want to give free stuff.
Symptomatic of a Larger Problem
Unfortunately, there is no patch for systematic incompetence. No amount of money, new cybersecurity authorities and organizations, or smart hackers lured away from Silicon Valley firms will compensate for the depressingly obvious realization that our government does not care about technical expertise or cybersecurity outcomes writ large and is not at all interested in accountability.
Progress
Meanwhile @forestethics is busy complaining about oil.
Overall, more wood is now being burnt from British woods than at any time since the industrial revolution
#NotACult
“Not Fully Forthcoming”
Well, that would be, “We told you so.” number 10^6 or so.
Sigh.
- The OPM hack gives everything, including contact info.
- To help protect employees the Feds source a private credit protection company.
- They send the connection info out via the same medium that was vulnerable in the first place.
- Are surprised that…they’ve created another vulnerability.
- They go back to #1.
I’m just so glad that Justin Trudeau is so hyped about giving Canadians a voice that he’s all in favour of online voting.
It’ll never work.
Is what the environmentalists told us.
It’s a grudging admission that CCS can and does work. But the biggest issue many environmental groups have with clean coal is its high cost.
Enabling coal driven power stations to continue operating versus a million new windmills, twice as many new natural gas plants or a couple of nuclear plants is cheap at twice the price.
This effectively shifts the argument from, “Rargh fossil fuels!” to “Is it a real problem?”
That’s good.
That’s what we really need.
More declared divisions. Who needs to strike up a conversation? Just Brigade them.
Honey, I finished the Internet
Oh, Shiny Pony
“You know what? We’re at a point where Canadians … are cynical about politics and not paying an awful lot of attention to what’s going on in the federal scene right now. People are getting ready for the end of school, for beginning summer vacations and going off with the family,”
What he meant: “It’s not that I’m not qualified, it’s that you don’t have enough faith in me.”
A Step into Time
A couple of interesting articles on the the Abbasids’s view of the Chinese and the Vikings.
The Final Cuts
The CFL teams are now done the final cuts.
I’ve been let go a couple of times in my life. Cut, fired, laid-off, let go, it’s all the same, none of it feels all that good.
This is what Luc Mullinder says it’s like.
But, on to the season! Week One starts on Thursday.
Good Fences, Good Neighbours
Hungary is planning on building a fence. It appears Serbia has been a little lax on controlling their borders, and with Hungary a part of the EU, it’s like the magic gateway.
Funny, though, it’s always the same people complaining about the countries who have to build fences.