TweetA few weeks ago I switched from my trusty old HP nc8430 to a Macbook Pro (MC118LL/A) that was left spare when another employee left. I mostly enjoyed using Linux but I was tired of dealing with weird quirks like having X lock up, essentially forcing me to do a hard reboot. To transition, I [...]
TweetWhen I first installed Linux on my laptop (on my old hard drive) I did it as dual-boot, so I resized my Windows XP partition down to 50 GB, created a 2nd partition for Linux and installed it there. I think I played around with Fedora and Ubuntu and one other distro (maybe FreeBSD?) so [...]
TweetSo I got this 128 gig Corsair SSD and put it in my laptop at work. After some fiddling I copied my old disk over to my new disk by booting to Knoppix and doing dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4k conv=notrunc,noerror. It’s a lot faster, but what’s really fast now is my Windows XP VM. Anyway, [...]
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