• Cult of Unix (was: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

    From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 15 00:30:05 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:52:05 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    wrote in <vm48v6$23a1f$2@dont-email.me>:

    Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 17:54, Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 16:32, Joel wrote:
    MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:
    On 12/01/2025 23:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.

    So which OS do you choose to expend your valuable time on?

    Linux is the only option worth pursuing. macOS is weird and
    expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief.

    There's not much to pursue in MacOS. It works as it should and it is >>>>> a fairly pleasant experience. However, I would agree that it's
    expensive.
    After a while, you'll need tools to do additional things and on
    MacOS, you're going to be paying money in most cases. Open-source is >>>>> available for it too, mind you.

    I just dislike Windows and macOS, it might be my own opinion but it's
    right for me.

    MacOS machines have a shelf life of about seven years before Apple
    decides that your machine is no longer worth supporting with updates.
    As we've seen, Windows machines get about seven, so it's a fair amount
    of time. However, Linux has them both beat with unlimited support no
    matter how pathetic the machine you're running it on is.


    My machine is an interesting example - if I'd stayed with Win10, it'd
    be slammin', but then support would end relatively early in its life.
    So upgrade to 11, great, until the bloat overtakes it, as in my view it
    already began to with 23H2. Linux is the only way to solve this
    dilemma.


    Indeed, linux is the only way to salvation.

    I'm glad you see the light, Brother Hank!

    https://cultnix.org/

    (_Cult of Unix_ home page -- there's nothing there but
    a title with an animated gif, perhaps I should add some
    epistles? ;) )

    ObWindows:

    Just navigated the backup mess in Windows 11 -- looks like
    one can set up periodic traditional backups in the control panel,
    but there's no options in the separate "cloud backup" tool
    except Microsoft's thing (Onedrive?).

    ObLinux:

    I also have to figure out why the virt didn't see any
    network shares, which would be the Samba instances on
    the local workstation and on my Synology Diskstation...

    And BTW, regarding Windows: I'm glad they've kept the
    control panel from Windows 7.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.13.0-rc7 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
    "The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to vallor on Tue Jan 14 20:05:34 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:52:05 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    wrote in <vm48v6$23a1f$2@dont-email.me>:

    Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 17:54, Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 16:32, Joel wrote:
    MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:
    On 12/01/2025 23:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.

    So which OS do you choose to expend your valuable time on?

    Linux is the only option worth pursuing. macOS is weird and
    expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief.

    There's not much to pursue in MacOS. It works as it should and it is >>>>>> a fairly pleasant experience. However, I would agree that it's
    expensive.
    After a while, you'll need tools to do additional things and on
    MacOS, you're going to be paying money in most cases. Open-source is >>>>>> available for it too, mind you.

    I just dislike Windows and macOS, it might be my own opinion but it's >>>>> right for me.

    MacOS machines have a shelf life of about seven years before Apple
    decides that your machine is no longer worth supporting with updates.
    As we've seen, Windows machines get about seven, so it's a fair amount >>>> of time. However, Linux has them both beat with unlimited support no
    matter how pathetic the machine you're running it on is.


    My machine is an interesting example - if I'd stayed with Win10, it'd
    be slammin', but then support would end relatively early in its life.
    So upgrade to 11, great, until the bloat overtakes it, as in my view it
    already began to with 23H2. Linux is the only way to solve this
    dilemma.


    Indeed, linux is the only way to salvation.

    I'm glad you see the light, Brother Hank!

    https://cultnix.org/

    (_Cult of Unix_ home page -- there's nothing there but
    a title with an animated gif, perhaps I should add some
    epistles? ;) )

    ObWindows:

    Just navigated the backup mess in Windows 11 --

    I said the hell with windows backup long long ago. Even if it works
    perfectly What are the chances they'll change it? And once a month,
    updates can easily dork it. Microsoft constantly fiddles with
    everything, even if it's working perfectly. It's just what they do.

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software,
    written by people that are experts and specialize in that. I use
    macrium reflect, but there are several others just as good or better and
    most have a free version. Backup software is too important to trust
    microsoft.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfj@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 15 05:24:00 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 15 Jan 2025 00:30:05 GMT, LO AND BEHOLD; vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> determined that the following was of great importance to vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> and subsequently decided to freely share it with
    us in <luodsdF6geaU1@mid.individual.net>:

    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:52:05 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= wrote in <vm48v6$23a1f$2@dont-email.me>: =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Joel wrote: =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On 2025-01-13 17:54, Joel wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On 2025-01-13 16:32, Joel wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= MikeS <MikeS@fred.com>
    wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+
    KAjfCfjIg=?= On 12/01/2025 23:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+
    KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+
    KAjfCfjIg=?= So which OS do you choose to expend your valuable time on? =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Linux is the only
    option worth pursuing. macOS is weird and expensive, =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Windows is bloatware
    beyond belief.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= There's not much to pursue in MacOS. It works as it
    should and it is a
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= fairly pleasant experience. However, I would agree that
    it's expensive.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= After a while, you'll need tools to do additional things
    and on MacOS,
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= you're going to be paying money in most cases. Open-
    source is available
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= for it too, mind you.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I just dislike Windows and macOS, it might be my own opinion but it's
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= right for me.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= MacOS machines have a shelf life of about seven years before Apple
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= decides that your machine is no longer worth supporting with updates.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= As we've seen, Windows machines get about seven, so it's a fair amount
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= of time. However, Linux has them both beat with unlimited support no
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= matter how pathetic the machine you're running it on is.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= My machine is an interesting example - if I'd stayed with Win10, it'd be
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= slammin', but then support would end relatively early in its life. So
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= upgrade to 11, great, until the bloat overtakes it, as in my view it
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= already began to with 23H2. Linux is the only way to solve this
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= dilemma.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Indeed, linux is the only way to salvation.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I'm glad you see the light, Brother Hank! =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= https://cultnix.org/ =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= (_Cult of Unix_ home page -- there's nothing there but a title with an
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= animated gif, perhaps I should add some epistles? ;) )
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= ObWindows:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Just navigated the backup mess in Windows 11 -- looks like one can set
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= up periodic traditional backups in the control panel, but there's no
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= options in the separate "cloud backup" tool except Microsoft's thing
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= (Onedrive?).
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= ObLinux:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I also have to figure out why the virt didn't see any network shares,
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= which would be the Samba instances on the local workstation and on my
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Synology Diskstation... =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= And BTW, regarding Windows: I'm glad they've kept the control panel
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= from Windows 7. =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=

    You might have to enable SMB V1 protocol

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3?tabs=server

    --

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    "Claiming that I "refuse to respect pronouns" is dead wrong. I respect them with everyone but "Jen" and "their" ilk, because "they" are a phony." - Scott Doty AKA Creon AKA Vallor AKA Doc Hammerhead declares why he ironically reserves the "right" to
    misgender others just like his MAGA bigot cohorts are wont to in Message-ID: <l54g7pF27huU2@mid.individual.net>


    Message-ID: <nistjjhili8963p9l65oi962r3p4mktej5@4ax.com>
    " And yet, one can still see the headers.
    If you weren't so stupid, you would know how. I will try, and
    likely fail, to dumb it down to your intellectual level.
    To the right of the post there are three dots. Click on them. A
    few options will appear. Click on "Show original message" and follow
    the instructions as best your learning disability will permit.
    If you still can't see the headers, there is nothing more I can
    do. I cannot dumb this down any more than I have." - Kenito Wills, stupider than shit-stupid. (See: https://ibb.co/MVsRGqN)

    "It's just like you to read all that, and come up a sick and clueless response like that one, totally unrelated to the point. It must get confusing to be intelligent enough to "sit at the best reading table in school," and fail to cobble together a
    basic understanding of what you've just read. The nasty side of you always manages to take control to guard your fragile ego, which explains why you never get along with people, and get visitors like Red Elephant who take the time and trouble to come by
    and embarrass you..." - <MPG.41696ec8ecc18ea4989796@usnews.blocknews.net> Jimbo responds to a yes/no question exactly as one might expect him to.

    "Bullshit! You salivate over every word I write, then beg for more. Then when you realize that I've put you in another hole you can't worm your way out of... even if you did "sit at the best reading table in elementary school," YOU revert to pedo lames,
    because that's the best you can do. In fact, no one here has any interest in your obsession with pedo lames but you, because you're intellectually weak. In fact, you seem suspiciously obsessed with that topic. Maybe some day we'll find out why." - <
    MPG.4169de194a070345989798@usnews.blocknews.net> No Jim, I am not "obsessed" with what you did and concealed and continue to backpedal from.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/6FaoS9bawDI/m/Wdupq7BHaSkJ
    "I've spoken against CPS many times. That I realize that they were 100% correct in regards to you doesn't mean I'm pro-CPS." - Kent Wills doesn't like Child Protection Services getting in his way of abusing children.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/AmluvRraNjg/m/gufYNdgK3E8J
    "Greg has made it very clear he likes little girls. And not in a sexually healthy way." - Kent Wills believes that there's a "sexually healthy" way to be a pedophile.

    "I'm actually glad it's out in the open now, it's a lot of weight to bear. Some will graciously accept that, and some probably won't. It makes it real easy to know who's worth regarding as a friend. Those few remaining haters hide behind socks... I
    wonder why?" - Checkmate AKA "Rick Sabian" AKA "Morphing Fuckwit" AKA "automatic tranny" AKA "jen der queer" AKA "livelong@and.prosper" AKA "FOAD <foad@grnail.corn>" AKA "Destiny <faghaitur@bucket.list>" AKA "DAVID KEETING <Squiggles@ass.worm>" AKA "
    f4c3411 <f3c4L@f37l5h.corn>" AKA "<"Hunter's Dildo <RumPPumPPa@uPPa.yOOaSS>" >" AKA "Mustafa Sheboygan" AKA "Peter, the Booty Judge" <root@127.0.0.1> AKA "Mund Harmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "Mundharmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "% <%@hotmale.com>" AKA "
    Checkmate <trouble@soon.corn>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@MOUTH.ORGAN>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@127.O.O.1>" AKA "Tard Wrangler <youknowit@alphamale.corn>" hates when people hate pedo rapists. He wants friends who like pedo rapists. Write that down and
    don't forget it! <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.checkmate/c/2VcCBNwMdeo/m/A0wpvxZRAAAJ>

    "I think we should destroy every last fucking mosque in America." - "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> proves for us that white males are violent in Message-ID: <MPG.32c5bfefd18c9a698f0a8@news.altopia.com>

    "Yeah, but you think everybody's Greg. There are a couple people here who can't resist responding to everything the aSSwurm or the Pussy Willow says. It does me no good to plonk aSSwurm and Pussy Willow if I still have to wade through a hundred inane
    posts a day involving those two assholes, so now I've plonked the chronic responders as well. They'll figure it out, and then they can make a choice... exchange stupid drivel with those two, or have more intelligent and interesting conversations with me.
    I know damned well Greg got sick of all that shit, and now I'm sick of it too. Those who choose to get led around by the lowest common denominator are fucking up AC and every other group they play that game in. If that's the kind of Usenet they want,
    they can wallow in the same slop as the two retards elsewhere, because they're only contributing to fucking this group up too. I can take or leave this shit, because I have plenty to keep me occupied with my room addition project, and it's a hell of a
    lot more rewarding than exchanging baby talk with the likes of the aSSwurm. May his fucking worthless AIDS-infested carcass drop fucking dead ASAP and quit wasting oxygen. To sum it up, talk to those two idiots elsewhere, or they'll probably be the only
    people left to talk to here." One can only presume that Jim and Creon/Vallor have solved this problem and are together in a private chat "having more intelligent and interesting conversations" instead of these "Civil" calls for shunning and
    authoritative control of discussion. As Seen on TV : <MPG.35cd7d50e1b224b1994604@news.altopia.com>

    "I'm pretty sure all gods are fictional, I'm smart enough to not proclaim I know this." - Kwills is only smart enough to doubt himself while arguing that a belief in imaginary made-up gods can't just be ignored as "mental illness" in <
    mo4q0j9tcqjt68s039loiacrbarihsh9i5@4ax.com>

    "If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker." -James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet. <MPG.
    4001ba2c14cace6c98cb6f@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Trying to diminish others doesn't make you look any better. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Why are you always so bitter and angry? Do you have AIDS or something like so many other tranny girls do?" -James "Checkmate" Gorman in <MPG.
    405409befd41f28898969d@test.blocknews.net>

    "You should see my archive on you" -James "Checkmate" Gorman teases us with his "dosser" in <MPG.3eea81b23145043b98c338@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Sorry, nothing to see here. The joint wasn't as bad as they say, but I'm not looking to go back. I'm a model citizen, clean as a whistle. I've owned my own home for 12 years, owned my own business almost as long, don't bother anyone and they don't
    bother me. You have nothing in any "police report" pertaining to me. Don't you think they would have "come a-knockin" a long time ago if they had any reason to? You're delusional and paranoid, and I have to wonder why.

    Oh... I should mention that there are a LOT of trannies in prison. I don't know why, but there are. The State even has to give them hormone shots for their tiddies at taxpayer's expense, and they wear bras and panties. I found everything about them
    revolting. That's why the whole "Bubba" thing is almost completely a myth, except in cell living. That shit wouldn't fly in a 100-man dorm, but trust me, those little trollops find ways to serve the willing when the lights go out. You see something, you
    keep your mouth shut about it because that way you don't get in a wreck. I never partook in such activities because the whole idea is just repulsive. I think that's a big part of what I don't like about you. I've seen how they act and I've talked to a
    few... total drama queens in every sense." -James "Checkmate" Gorman reminisces about prison in <MPG.3ceb37c2eddbaff98b07a@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Not true. I've seen square waves on the oscilloscope from some certain generator. Square waves can be created from other than sine waves. Sine waves aren't everything (or anything you sick pervert %), I think that's the point you are missing. -
    Mathemagician "Lane Larson" in <939d6741-df96-5f2e-a444-b6dfd77de09e@stoat.inhoin.edu> seems to argue that square wave generators must use Fourier transforms "of course" to generate "almost" square waves... in his feeble attempt to quash my assertion
    that "square waves do not exist in reality" in post <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DKWuXdYTXCQ5ApC$@88.203.236.221=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>.

    "Colour me fanboi, oh yes indeed. I'm a fanboi who is proudly content to be just that." - snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) in <1qx4ikk.c8jzw919si6cmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    Golden Killfile, June 2005
    KOTM, November 2006
    Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
    Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
    Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
    Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
    Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
    AUK Mascot, September 2007
    Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016

    BEGIN: Official Guarantee of PWNerShip =?UTF-8?B?8J+fpfCfn6UgIPCfn6Xwn5+l8J+fpfCfn6UNCvCfn6Xwn5+l8J+fpfCfn6Xwn5+l8J+fpfCfn6Xwn5+lDQrwn5+l8J+fpfCfn6Xwn5+o8J+fqPCfn6jwn5GB77iP8J+fpfCfn6UNCiAgIPCfkYLwn5+l8J+Rge+4j/Cfn6jwn5+o8J+fqPCfn6jwn5+lDQogICDwn5+l8J+fpfCfn6jwn5+o8J+Rge+4j/Cfn6jwn5GB77iP8J+
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    fqA0KU0hFICAgIElTICAgIFdBVENISU5HDQpUSU1FUyAgICAgICAgICAgIEZJVkU=?=
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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Wed Jan 15 03:16:20 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 1/14/2025 9:05 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:52:05 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    wrote in <vm48v6$23a1f$2@dont-email.me>:

    Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 17:54, Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 16:32, Joel wrote:
    MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:
    On 12/01/2025 23:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.

    So which OS do you choose to expend your valuable time on?

    Linux is the only option worth pursuing.  macOS is weird and
    expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief.

    There's not much to pursue in MacOS. It works as it should and it is >>>>>>> a fairly pleasant experience. However, I would agree that it's
    expensive.
    After a while, you'll need tools to do additional things and on
    MacOS, you're going to be paying money in most cases. Open-source is >>>>>>> available for it too, mind you.

    I just dislike Windows and macOS, it might be my own opinion but it's >>>>>> right for me.

    MacOS machines have a shelf life of about seven years before Apple
    decides that your machine is no longer worth supporting with updates. >>>>> As we've seen, Windows machines get about seven, so it's a fair amount >>>>> of time. However, Linux has them both beat with unlimited support no >>>>> matter how pathetic the machine you're running it on is.


    My machine is an interesting example - if I'd stayed with Win10, it'd
    be slammin', but then support would end relatively early in its life.
    So upgrade to 11, great, until the bloat overtakes it, as in my view it >>>> already began to with 23H2.  Linux is the only way to solve this
    dilemma.


    Indeed, linux is the only way to salvation.

    I'm glad you see the light, Brother Hank!

    https://cultnix.org/

    (_Cult of Unix_ home page -- there's nothing there but
    a title with an animated gif, perhaps I should add some
    epistles? ;)   )

    ObWindows:

    Just navigated the backup mess in Windows 11 --

    I said the hell with windows backup long long ago. Even if it works perfectly What are the chances they'll change it? And once a month, updates can easily dork it. Microsoft constantly fiddles with everything, even if it's working perfectly. It's just
    what they do.

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software, written by people that are experts and specialize in that.  I use macrium reflect, but there are several others just as good or better and most have a free version. Backup software is
    too important to trust microsoft.


    On the Windows Backup, the backup seems to work better than the restore.

    The Macrium Reflect Free is quite a bit better.

    Paul

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to root@127.0.0.1 on Wed Jan 15 08:38:18 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:24:00 +0000, 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈Jen🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 Dershmender
    💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🐶笛🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in
    <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DPmqKdu54gmAMf3$@92.78.154.93=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>:

    On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:24:00 +0000, JenDershmender
    <root@127.0.0.1> wrote

    You might have to enable SMB V1 protocol

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/
    troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3?tabs=server

    Um...no. "Wouldn't be prudent."

    The solution was to do the following:

    1) Enter the share server name as an IP address, and
    2) prefix the backup login user with "WORKGROUP\".

    https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/5253-file-share-error-validation-information-class-requested-was-invalid/

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
    "Always remember no matter where you go, there you are."

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 15 09:02:52 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    wrote in <vm755l$2lqjk$1@dont-email.me>:

    vallor wrote:
    On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:52:05 -0600, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
    wrote in <vm48v6$23a1f$2@dont-email.me>:

    Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 17:54, Joel wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 16:32, Joel wrote:
    MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:
    On 12/01/2025 23:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.

    So which OS do you choose to expend your valuable time on?

    Linux is the only option worth pursuing. macOS is weird and
    expensive, Windows is bloatware beyond belief.

    There's not much to pursue in MacOS. It works as it should and it is >>>>>>> a fairly pleasant experience. However, I would agree that it's
    expensive.
    After a while, you'll need tools to do additional things and on
    MacOS, you're going to be paying money in most cases. Open-source is >>>>>>> available for it too, mind you.

    I just dislike Windows and macOS, it might be my own opinion but it's >>>>>> right for me.

    MacOS machines have a shelf life of about seven years before Apple
    decides that your machine is no longer worth supporting with updates. >>>>> As we've seen, Windows machines get about seven, so it's a fair amount >>>>> of time. However, Linux has them both beat with unlimited support no >>>>> matter how pathetic the machine you're running it on is.


    My machine is an interesting example - if I'd stayed with Win10, it'd
    be slammin', but then support would end relatively early in its life.
    So upgrade to 11, great, until the bloat overtakes it, as in my view it >>>> already began to with 23H2. Linux is the only way to solve this
    dilemma.


    Indeed, linux is the only way to salvation.

    I'm glad you see the light, Brother Hank!

    https://cultnix.org/

    (_Cult of Unix_ home page -- there's nothing there but
    a title with an animated gif, perhaps I should add some
    epistles? ;) )

    ObWindows:

    Just navigated the backup mess in Windows 11 --

    I said the hell with windows backup long long ago. Even if it works
    perfectly What are the chances they'll change it? And once a month,
    updates can easily dork it. Microsoft constantly fiddles with
    everything, even if it's working perfectly. It's just what they do.

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software,
    written by people that are experts and specialize in that. I use
    macrium reflect, but there are several others just as good or better and
    most have a free version. Backup software is too important to trust microsoft.

    Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but it's just a virtual host for
    testing things, and maybe building some Windows software -- anything
    of import goes on a network share, so if the virt goes Tango Uniform,
    I'll still have the data. Can't really test Windows very well
    without using their backup.

    I got backups working with an "E:" drive backed by an
    iSCSI initiator, then figured out how to set the backups
    to use the Samba share provided by a Synology Diskstation.

    As I wrote under separate cover: On Windows 11, the
    network login for the control-panel-style backups has
    to be prefixed with the workgroup name, e.g. "WORKGROUP\username".

    Also, h/t to Paul for his post last week(?) about how to remove
    BitLocker from a partition...there doesn't seem to be a way to
    do it from the GUI, nor would Windows 11 let me set up a
    partition without BL.

    (In PowerShell, I ran: manage-bde -off E: -- after that, I could
    get at the NTFS filesystem in the iSCSI partition in Linux.)

    --
    -v

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfj@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 15 17:22:32 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 15 Jan 2025 08:38:18 GMT, LO AND BEHOLD; vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> determined that the following was of great importance to vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> and subsequently decided to freely share it with
    us in <lupafqFake0U1@mid.individual.net>:

    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:24:00 +0000, =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈Jen🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 🌷🌺🌈 Dershmender =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🐶笛🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 🌺🌈 <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DPmqKdu54gmAMf3$@92
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= .78.154.93=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:24:00 +0000, JenDershmender <root@127.0.0.1>
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= wrote
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= You might have to enable SMB V1 protocol
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3?tabs=server
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Um...no. "Wouldn't be prudent." =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= The solution was to do the following: =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 1) Enter the share server name as an IP address, and 2) prefix the
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= backup login user with "WORKGROUP\". =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/5253-file-share-error-va
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= lidation-information-class-requested-was-invalid/
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=

    I guess I gave you the benefit of doubt that you had checked that the login credentials were correct.

    Some old hardware NAS are stuck with SMBv1 and require an exception. SMBv1 on an internal private network that's properly firewalled isn't the security issue some might make it out to be.

    --

    "I am not a "hetero cismale"." - Steve K. Hall in <1r5hu1f.z02fkr1t8gjr5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    "Claiming that I "refuse to respect pronouns" is dead wrong. I respect them with everyone but "Jen" and "their" ilk, because "they" are a phony." - Scott Doty AKA Creon AKA Vallor AKA Doc Hammerhead declares why he ironically reserves the "right" to
    misgender others just like his MAGA bigot cohorts are wont to in Message-ID: <l54g7pF27huU2@mid.individual.net>


    Message-ID: <nistjjhili8963p9l65oi962r3p4mktej5@4ax.com>
    " And yet, one can still see the headers.
    If you weren't so stupid, you would know how. I will try, and
    likely fail, to dumb it down to your intellectual level.
    To the right of the post there are three dots. Click on them. A
    few options will appear. Click on "Show original message" and follow
    the instructions as best your learning disability will permit.
    If you still can't see the headers, there is nothing more I can
    do. I cannot dumb this down any more than I have." - Kenito Wills, stupider than shit-stupid. (See: https://ibb.co/MVsRGqN)

    "It's just like you to read all that, and come up a sick and clueless response like that one, totally unrelated to the point. It must get confusing to be intelligent enough to "sit at the best reading table in school," and fail to cobble together a
    basic understanding of what you've just read. The nasty side of you always manages to take control to guard your fragile ego, which explains why you never get along with people, and get visitors like Red Elephant who take the time and trouble to come by
    and embarrass you..." - <MPG.41696ec8ecc18ea4989796@usnews.blocknews.net> Jimbo responds to a yes/no question exactly as one might expect him to.

    "Bullshit! You salivate over every word I write, then beg for more. Then when you realize that I've put you in another hole you can't worm your way out of... even if you did "sit at the best reading table in elementary school," YOU revert to pedo lames,
    because that's the best you can do. In fact, no one here has any interest in your obsession with pedo lames but you, because you're intellectually weak. In fact, you seem suspiciously obsessed with that topic. Maybe some day we'll find out why." - <
    MPG.4169de194a070345989798@usnews.blocknews.net> No Jim, I am not "obsessed" with what you did and concealed and continue to backpedal from.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/6FaoS9bawDI/m/Wdupq7BHaSkJ
    "I've spoken against CPS many times. That I realize that they were 100% correct in regards to you doesn't mean I'm pro-CPS." - Kent Wills doesn't like Child Protection Services getting in his way of abusing children.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/AmluvRraNjg/m/gufYNdgK3E8J
    "Greg has made it very clear he likes little girls. And not in a sexually healthy way." - Kent Wills believes that there's a "sexually healthy" way to be a pedophile.

    "I'm actually glad it's out in the open now, it's a lot of weight to bear. Some will graciously accept that, and some probably won't. It makes it real easy to know who's worth regarding as a friend. Those few remaining haters hide behind socks... I
    wonder why?" - Checkmate AKA "Rick Sabian" AKA "Morphing Fuckwit" AKA "automatic tranny" AKA "jen der queer" AKA "livelong@and.prosper" AKA "FOAD <foad@grnail.corn>" AKA "Destiny <faghaitur@bucket.list>" AKA "DAVID KEETING <Squiggles@ass.worm>" AKA "
    f4c3411 <f3c4L@f37l5h.corn>" AKA "<"Hunter's Dildo <RumPPumPPa@uPPa.yOOaSS>" >" AKA "Mustafa Sheboygan" AKA "Peter, the Booty Judge" <root@127.0.0.1> AKA "Mund Harmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "Mundharmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "% <%@hotmale.com>" AKA "
    Checkmate <trouble@soon.corn>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@MOUTH.ORGAN>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@127.O.O.1>" AKA "Tard Wrangler <youknowit@alphamale.corn>" hates when people hate pedo rapists. He wants friends who like pedo rapists. Write that down and
    don't forget it! <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.checkmate/c/2VcCBNwMdeo/m/A0wpvxZRAAAJ>

    "I think we should destroy every last fucking mosque in America." - "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> proves for us that white males are violent in Message-ID: <MPG.32c5bfefd18c9a698f0a8@news.altopia.com>

    "Yeah, but you think everybody's Greg. There are a couple people here who can't resist responding to everything the aSSwurm or the Pussy Willow says. It does me no good to plonk aSSwurm and Pussy Willow if I still have to wade through a hundred inane
    posts a day involving those two assholes, so now I've plonked the chronic responders as well. They'll figure it out, and then they can make a choice... exchange stupid drivel with those two, or have more intelligent and interesting conversations with me.
    I know damned well Greg got sick of all that shit, and now I'm sick of it too. Those who choose to get led around by the lowest common denominator are fucking up AC and every other group they play that game in. If that's the kind of Usenet they want,
    they can wallow in the same slop as the two retards elsewhere, because they're only contributing to fucking this group up too. I can take or leave this shit, because I have plenty to keep me occupied with my room addition project, and it's a hell of a
    lot more rewarding than exchanging baby talk with the likes of the aSSwurm. May his fucking worthless AIDS-infested carcass drop fucking dead ASAP and quit wasting oxygen. To sum it up, talk to those two idiots elsewhere, or they'll probably be the only
    people left to talk to here." One can only presume that Jim and Creon/Vallor have solved this problem and are together in a private chat "having more intelligent and interesting conversations" instead of these "Civil" calls for shunning and
    authoritative control of discussion. As Seen on TV : <MPG.35cd7d50e1b224b1994604@news.altopia.com>

    "I'm pretty sure all gods are fictional, I'm smart enough to not proclaim I know this." - Kwills is only smart enough to doubt himself while arguing that a belief in imaginary made-up gods can't just be ignored as "mental illness" in <
    mo4q0j9tcqjt68s039loiacrbarihsh9i5@4ax.com>

    "If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker." -James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet. <MPG.
    4001ba2c14cace6c98cb6f@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Trying to diminish others doesn't make you look any better. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Why are you always so bitter and angry? Do you have AIDS or something like so many other tranny girls do?" -James "Checkmate" Gorman in <MPG.
    405409befd41f28898969d@test.blocknews.net>

    "You should see my archive on you" -James "Checkmate" Gorman teases us with his "dosser" in <MPG.3eea81b23145043b98c338@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Sorry, nothing to see here. The joint wasn't as bad as they say, but I'm not looking to go back. I'm a model citizen, clean as a whistle. I've owned my own home for 12 years, owned my own business almost as long, don't bother anyone and they don't
    bother me. You have nothing in any "police report" pertaining to me. Don't you think they would have "come a-knockin" a long time ago if they had any reason to? You're delusional and paranoid, and I have to wonder why.

    Oh... I should mention that there are a LOT of trannies in prison. I don't know why, but there are. The State even has to give them hormone shots for their tiddies at taxpayer's expense, and they wear bras and panties. I found everything about them
    revolting. That's why the whole "Bubba" thing is almost completely a myth, except in cell living. That shit wouldn't fly in a 100-man dorm, but trust me, those little trollops find ways to serve the willing when the lights go out. You see something, you
    keep your mouth shut about it because that way you don't get in a wreck. I never partook in such activities because the whole idea is just repulsive. I think that's a big part of what I don't like about you. I've seen how they act and I've talked to a
    few... total drama queens in every sense." -James "Checkmate" Gorman reminisces about prison in <MPG.3ceb37c2eddbaff98b07a@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Not true. I've seen square waves on the oscilloscope from some certain generator. Square waves can be created from other than sine waves. Sine waves aren't everything (or anything you sick pervert %), I think that's the point you are missing. -
    Mathemagician "Lane Larson" in <939d6741-df96-5f2e-a444-b6dfd77de09e@stoat.inhoin.edu> seems to argue that square wave generators must use Fourier transforms "of course" to generate "almost" square waves... in his feeble attempt to quash my assertion
    that "square waves do not exist in reality" in post <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DKWuXdYTXCQ5ApC$@88.203.236.221=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>.

    "Colour me fanboi, oh yes indeed. I'm a fanboi who is proudly content to be just that." - snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) in <1qx4ikk.c8jzw919si6cmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    Golden Killfile, June 2005
    KOTM, November 2006
    Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
    Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
    Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
    Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
    Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
    AUK Mascot, September 2007
    Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Thu Jan 16 05:03:04 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux systems.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+MiPCfkpDwn4y78J+MuvCfj@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 16 05:28:24 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:03:04 -0000 (UTC), LO AND BEHOLD; Lawrence
    D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> determined that the following was of great importance to Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> and subsequently
    decided to freely share it with us in <vma3u7$3cdmt$1@dont-email.me>:

    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= systems.
    =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=

    That's what I've used for 25 years.

    There are other backup methods with db backend that can use rsync. I wrote a proprietary in-house per-directory one using rsync to do the heavy lifting within an ssh shell.

    You should try that.

    HTH

    --

    "I am not a "hetero cismale"." - Steve K. Hall in <1r5hu1f.z02fkr1t8gjr5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    "Claiming that I "refuse to respect pronouns" is dead wrong. I respect them with everyone but "Jen" and "their" ilk, because "they" are a phony." - Scott Doty AKA Creon AKA Vallor AKA Doc Hammerhead declares why he ironically reserves the "right" to
    misgender others just like his MAGA bigot cohorts are wont to in Message-ID: <l54g7pF27huU2@mid.individual.net>


    Message-ID: <nistjjhili8963p9l65oi962r3p4mktej5@4ax.com>
    " And yet, one can still see the headers.
    If you weren't so stupid, you would know how. I will try, and
    likely fail, to dumb it down to your intellectual level.
    To the right of the post there are three dots. Click on them. A
    few options will appear. Click on "Show original message" and follow
    the instructions as best your learning disability will permit.
    If you still can't see the headers, there is nothing more I can
    do. I cannot dumb this down any more than I have." - Kenito Wills, stupider than shit-stupid. (See: https://ibb.co/MVsRGqN)

    "It's just like you to read all that, and come up a sick and clueless response like that one, totally unrelated to the point. It must get confusing to be intelligent enough to "sit at the best reading table in school," and fail to cobble together a
    basic understanding of what you've just read. The nasty side of you always manages to take control to guard your fragile ego, which explains why you never get along with people, and get visitors like Red Elephant who take the time and trouble to come by
    and embarrass you..." - <MPG.41696ec8ecc18ea4989796@usnews.blocknews.net> Jimbo responds to a yes/no question exactly as one might expect him to.

    "Bullshit! You salivate over every word I write, then beg for more. Then when you realize that I've put you in another hole you can't worm your way out of... even if you did "sit at the best reading table in elementary school," YOU revert to pedo lames,
    because that's the best you can do. In fact, no one here has any interest in your obsession with pedo lames but you, because you're intellectually weak. In fact, you seem suspiciously obsessed with that topic. Maybe some day we'll find out why." - <
    MPG.4169de194a070345989798@usnews.blocknews.net> No Jim, I am not "obsessed" with what you did and concealed and continue to backpedal from.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/6FaoS9bawDI/m/Wdupq7BHaSkJ
    "I've spoken against CPS many times. That I realize that they were 100% correct in regards to you doesn't mean I'm pro-CPS." - Kent Wills doesn't like Child Protection Services getting in his way of abusing children.

    https://groups.google.com/g/misc.legal/c/AmluvRraNjg/m/gufYNdgK3E8J
    "Greg has made it very clear he likes little girls. And not in a sexually healthy way." - Kent Wills believes that there's a "sexually healthy" way to be a pedophile.

    "I'm actually glad it's out in the open now, it's a lot of weight to bear. Some will graciously accept that, and some probably won't. It makes it real easy to know who's worth regarding as a friend. Those few remaining haters hide behind socks... I
    wonder why?" - Checkmate AKA "Rick Sabian" AKA "Morphing Fuckwit" AKA "automatic tranny" AKA "jen der queer" AKA "livelong@and.prosper" AKA "FOAD <foad@grnail.corn>" AKA "Destiny <faghaitur@bucket.list>" AKA "DAVID KEETING <Squiggles@ass.worm>" AKA "
    f4c3411 <f3c4L@f37l5h.corn>" AKA "<"Hunter's Dildo <RumPPumPPa@uPPa.yOOaSS>" >" AKA "Mustafa Sheboygan" AKA "Peter, the Booty Judge" <root@127.0.0.1> AKA "Mund Harmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "Mundharmonika <root@127.0.0.1>" AKA "% <%@hotmale.com>" AKA "
    Checkmate <trouble@soon.corn>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@MOUTH.ORGAN>" AKA "Mundharmonika <R00T@127.O.O.1>" AKA "Tard Wrangler <youknowit@alphamale.corn>" hates when people hate pedo rapists. He wants friends who like pedo rapists. Write that down and
    don't forget it! <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.checkmate/c/2VcCBNwMdeo/m/A0wpvxZRAAAJ>

    "I think we should destroy every last fucking mosque in America." - "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> proves for us that white males are violent in Message-ID: <MPG.32c5bfefd18c9a698f0a8@news.altopia.com>

    "Yeah, but you think everybody's Greg. There are a couple people here who can't resist responding to everything the aSSwurm or the Pussy Willow says. It does me no good to plonk aSSwurm and Pussy Willow if I still have to wade through a hundred inane
    posts a day involving those two assholes, so now I've plonked the chronic responders as well. They'll figure it out, and then they can make a choice... exchange stupid drivel with those two, or have more intelligent and interesting conversations with me.
    I know damned well Greg got sick of all that shit, and now I'm sick of it too. Those who choose to get led around by the lowest common denominator are fucking up AC and every other group they play that game in. If that's the kind of Usenet they want,
    they can wallow in the same slop as the two retards elsewhere, because they're only contributing to fucking this group up too. I can take or leave this shit, because I have plenty to keep me occupied with my room addition project, and it's a hell of a
    lot more rewarding than exchanging baby talk with the likes of the aSSwurm. May his fucking worthless AIDS-infested carcass drop fucking dead ASAP and quit wasting oxygen. To sum it up, talk to those two idiots elsewhere, or they'll probably be the only
    people left to talk to here." One can only presume that Jim and Creon/Vallor have solved this problem and are together in a private chat "having more intelligent and interesting conversations" instead of these "Civil" calls for shunning and
    authoritative control of discussion. As Seen on TV : <MPG.35cd7d50e1b224b1994604@news.altopia.com>

    "I'm pretty sure all gods are fictional, I'm smart enough to not proclaim I know this." - Kwills is only smart enough to doubt himself while arguing that a belief in imaginary made-up gods can't just be ignored as "mental illness" in <
    mo4q0j9tcqjt68s039loiacrbarihsh9i5@4ax.com>

    "If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker." -James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet. <MPG.
    4001ba2c14cace6c98cb6f@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Trying to diminish others doesn't make you look any better. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Why are you always so bitter and angry? Do you have AIDS or something like so many other tranny girls do?" -James "Checkmate" Gorman in <MPG.
    405409befd41f28898969d@test.blocknews.net>

    "You should see my archive on you" -James "Checkmate" Gorman teases us with his "dosser" in <MPG.3eea81b23145043b98c338@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Sorry, nothing to see here. The joint wasn't as bad as they say, but I'm not looking to go back. I'm a model citizen, clean as a whistle. I've owned my own home for 12 years, owned my own business almost as long, don't bother anyone and they don't
    bother me. You have nothing in any "police report" pertaining to me. Don't you think they would have "come a-knockin" a long time ago if they had any reason to? You're delusional and paranoid, and I have to wonder why.

    Oh... I should mention that there are a LOT of trannies in prison. I don't know why, but there are. The State even has to give them hormone shots for their tiddies at taxpayer's expense, and they wear bras and panties. I found everything about them
    revolting. That's why the whole "Bubba" thing is almost completely a myth, except in cell living. That shit wouldn't fly in a 100-man dorm, but trust me, those little trollops find ways to serve the willing when the lights go out. You see something, you
    keep your mouth shut about it because that way you don't get in a wreck. I never partook in such activities because the whole idea is just repulsive. I think that's a big part of what I don't like about you. I've seen how they act and I've talked to a
    few... total drama queens in every sense." -James "Checkmate" Gorman reminisces about prison in <MPG.3ceb37c2eddbaff98b07a@usnews.blocknews.net>

    "Not true. I've seen square waves on the oscilloscope from some certain generator. Square waves can be created from other than sine waves. Sine waves aren't everything (or anything you sick pervert %), I think that's the point you are missing. -
    Mathemagician "Lane Larson" in <939d6741-df96-5f2e-a444-b6dfd77de09e@stoat.inhoin.edu> seems to argue that square wave generators must use Fourier transforms "of course" to generate "almost" square waves... in his feeble attempt to quash my assertion
    that "square waves do not exist in reality" in post <=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3DKWuXdYTXCQ5ApC$@88.203.236.221=3D?U=3D?UTF-8?Q?T?=3DF-8?Q?=3DF0=3D9F=3D8C=3DBA?=3D>.

    "Colour me fanboi, oh yes indeed. I'm a fanboi who is proudly content to be just that." - snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) in <1qx4ikk.c8jzw919si6cmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>

    Golden Killfile, June 2005
    KOTM, November 2006
    Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
    Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
    Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
    Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
    Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
    Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
    Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
    AUK Mascot, September 2007
    Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Jan 16 14:12:41 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It?s essentially a bulk file-copying utility. That?s all you need to backup/restore Linux systems.

    (Partition/disk) Imaging software is for bare-metal restores, mostly
    for restoring the OS, programs, settings, etc.. It's not file-level
    backup [1]. Two completely different animals and one is no replacement
    for the other.

    But indeed, you don't *need* imaging software, if you're willing to re-install the OS, etc. if needed.

    [1] But most imaging packages can also do file-level restores.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Jan 16 10:34:01 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux systems.


    With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4.
    This means when I image a dual-boot disk drive here, it is
    a *complete* image. I can restore it to a brand new hard drive,
    and it boots as if nothing had happened.

    As long as my Linux installs use EXT4 for slash, I'm fine
    and one imaging tool does everything for me.

    The imaging is "smart". in that busy clusters and busy inodes
    are backed up, not white space. If I have 20GB of files
    on a 1TB EXT4, the backup image is a bit bigger than 20GB
    but not by much. Similarly, if I back up 20GB of files
    on a 1TB NTFS, the output is not much bigger than 20GB.
    And the NTFS and EXT4 can sit in the same MRIMG file,
    there is no segregation involved and separate files
    for them. It's all in a single file.

    Macrium even backs up the 16MB Microsoft Reserved, which
    has no file system. It does that using the equivalent of "dd",
    but it does not throw a wobbly and complain about what it has
    been asked to do. It puts that back on a restore.

    Details and automation, are the key to push-button success.

    Paul

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Paul on Thu Jan 16 16:04:52 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:34:01 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in <vmb8t8$3id01$1@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
    file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux
    systems.


    With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4. This means
    when I image a dual-boot disk drive here, it is a *complete* image. I
    can restore it to a brand new hard drive,
    and it boots as if nothing had happened.

    As long as my Linux installs use EXT4 for slash, I'm fine and one
    imaging tool does everything for me.

    The imaging is "smart". in that busy clusters and busy inodes are backed
    up, not white space. If I have 20GB of files on a 1TB EXT4, the backup
    image is a bit bigger than 20GB but not by much. Similarly, if I back up
    20GB of files on a 1TB NTFS, the output is not much bigger than 20GB.
    And the NTFS and EXT4 can sit in the same MRIMG file,
    there is no segregation involved and separate files for them. It's all
    in a single file.

    Macrium even backs up the 16MB Microsoft Reserved, which has no file
    system. It does that using the equivalent of "dd", but it does not throw
    a wobbly and complain about what it has been asked to do. It puts that
    back on a restore.

    Details and automation, are the key to push-button success.

    Paul

    I'm sure Macrium Reflect is a fine bit of software, but I wonder
    about the wisdom of imaging a mounted partition. I think the only
    way to do that safely would be to boot to a USB stick -- that way,
    you aren't trying to image mounted filesystems.

    It's also not something I can run on Linux. Timeshift on
    Linux Mint uses rsync or btrfs snapshots. (I'm using ext4,
    so I use it with rsync.)

    But this discussion did get me to dig into Timeshift's
    exclusion list, and have it include the Windows 11 "C:"
    image file in backups. So I have that now, as well
    as the backups within the Windows 11 virtual host itself.
    Belt and suspenders.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
    "Give me ambiguity or give me something else!"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Jan 16 14:48:52 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:34:01 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in <vmb8t8$3id01$1@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
    file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux
    systems.


    With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4. This means
    when I image a dual-boot disk drive here, it is a *complete* image. I
    can restore it to a brand new hard drive,
    and it boots as if nothing had happened.

    As long as my Linux installs use EXT4 for slash, I'm fine and one
    imaging tool does everything for me.

    The imaging is "smart". in that busy clusters and busy inodes are backed
    up, not white space. If I have 20GB of files on a 1TB EXT4, the backup
    image is a bit bigger than 20GB but not by much. Similarly, if I back up
    20GB of files on a 1TB NTFS, the output is not much bigger than 20GB.
    And the NTFS and EXT4 can sit in the same MRIMG file,
    there is no segregation involved and separate files for them. It's all
    in a single file.

    Macrium even backs up the 16MB Microsoft Reserved, which has no file
    system. It does that using the equivalent of "dd", but it does not throw
    a wobbly and complain about what it has been asked to do. It puts that
    back on a restore.

    Details and automation, are the key to push-button success.

    Paul

    I'm sure Macrium Reflect is a fine bit of software, but I wonder
    about the wisdom of imaging a mounted partition. I think the only
    way to do that safely would be to boot to a USB stick -- that way,
    you aren't trying to image mounted filesystems.


    It works just fine on a running windows system. It uses Volume shadow
    service. I'm pretty sure most other backup software can also work while
    windows is running.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 16 21:37:54 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing “bare-metal restores” on Linux.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Jan 16 22:48:10 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-01-16 22:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing “bare-metal restores” on Linux.

    Not for restoring grub.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Thu Jan 16 17:37:13 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 4:48 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-01-16 22:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing “bare-metal >> restores” on Linux.

    Not for restoring grub.


    Some people don't understand what a complete solution is.

    A complete solution, these are some of the things it does.

    Record MBR
    Save boot track (first megabyte or whatever)
    Save ESP
    Save Microsoft Reserved (16MB, NoFS)
    Save all partitions.
    Disambiguate BLKID on Windows boot materials.
    Edit BCD file and place the new BLKID values in the menu.
    (This means two boot disks don't interfere with one another in any way).
    Macrium does not disambiguate EXT4 partitions, or edit GRUB, but it
    does back up enough of GRUB so it works. Beware of how Linux behaves
    on two identical disks, because of this (not the fault of Linux).
    Macrium is primarily a Windows tool, that just happens to back up EXTn.
    Back up primary and secondary GPT partition tables, restore to *correct* location on disk.
    (Even if destination disk is smaller, it puts the secondary table in the right place.)

    After a bare metal restore, your Windows disk boots immediately.

    If there was a structural flaw in the boot materials, when the stuff
    was backed up, the Rescue CD also has a Boot Repair for the simpler
    kinds of boot faults. It does not have a set of files for ESP, and
    cannot "fake" all the details for you. The Windows repair does not have
    that capability either.

    Paul

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Thu Jan 16 18:06:00 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 3:48 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
    vallor wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:34:01 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in
    <vmb8t8$3id01$1@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ... >>>>
    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
    file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux >>>> systems.


    With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4. This means >>> when I image a dual-boot disk drive here, it is a *complete* image. I
    can restore it to a brand new hard drive,
    and it boots as if nothing had happened.

    As long as my Linux installs use EXT4 for slash, I'm fine and one
    imaging tool does everything for me.

    The imaging is "smart". in that busy clusters and busy inodes are backed >>> up, not white space. If I have 20GB of files on a 1TB EXT4, the backup
    image is a bit bigger than 20GB but not by much. Similarly, if I back up >>> 20GB of files on a 1TB NTFS, the output is not much bigger than 20GB.
    And the NTFS and EXT4 can sit in the same MRIMG file,
    there is no segregation involved and separate files for them. It's all
    in a single file.

    Macrium even backs up the 16MB Microsoft Reserved, which has no file
    system. It does that using the equivalent of "dd", but it does not throw >>> a wobbly and complain about what it has been asked to do. It puts that
    back on a restore.

    Details and automation, are the key to push-button success.

        Paul

    I'm sure Macrium Reflect is a fine bit of software, but I wonder
    about the wisdom of imaging a mounted partition.  I think the only
    way to do that safely would be to boot to a USB stick -- that way,
    you aren't trying to image mounted filesystems.


    It works just fine on a running windows system. It uses Volume shadow service. I'm pretty sure most other backup software can also work while windows is running.


    They *all* use that.
    That's because setting a shadow is so easy,
    even home users can do one manually.

    You can freeze a copy of C: for example, and
    run a Robocopy over it.

    *******

    $ wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:D: -allCritical # "Windows 7 Backup.exe" run time 3 minutes.

    Retrieving volume information...
    This will back up (EFI System Partition),W11HOME(C:),(\\?\Volume{c3bc5ab1-c5f0-4dae-838c-751ef868e237}\) to D:.
    The backup operation to D: is starting.
    Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... <=== VSS (C: partition)
    Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... <=== VSS (Recovery partition )
    Creating a backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (100.00 MB), copied (0%). ...
    The backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (100.00 MB) completed successfully. Creating a backup of volume W11HOME(C:), copied (0%).
    ...
    Creating a backup of volume W11HOME(C:), copied (95%).
    The backup of volume W11HOME(C:) completed successfully.
    The backup of volume (649.00 MB) completed successfully.
    Summary of the backup operation:
    ------------------

    The backup operation successfully completed.
    The backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (100.00 MB) completed successfully. The backup of volume W11HOME(C:) completed successfully.
    The backup of volume (649.00 MB) completed successfully.
    Log of files successfully backed up: C:\WINDOWS\Logs\WindowsBackup\Backup-16-01-2025_22-52-06.log

    $ dir *.vhdx

    Directory of D:\WindowsImageBackup\WALLACE\Backup 2025-01-16 225206

    Thu, 01/16/2025 05:55 PM 72,240,594,944 0bd6166a-0836-4041-891c-792df2c72abd.vhdx <=== C: partition
    Thu, 01/16/2025 05:55 PM 620,756,992 c3bc5ab1-c5f0-4dae-838c-751ef868e237.vhdx <=== Recovery partition
    Thu, 01/16/2025 05:55 PM 60,817,408 Esp.vhdx <=== FAT32 boot materials

    It's too bad the restore didn't run smooth like that.
    But that's just to demonstrate that programs use shadows.
    Even disk2vhd from Russinovich, I think that sets a shadow too.

    Paul

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Fri Jan 17 00:08:22 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:48:10 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2025-01-16 22:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing
    “bare-metal restores” on Linux.

    Not for restoring grub.

    After the bulk file copy (with rsync or other tool), you need to fix up
    two things:

    1) /etc/fstab with the new volume UUIDs
    2) reinstall grub

    That’s it. I have successfully migrated bootable systems many times using this procedure.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Jan 17 00:10:03 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:34:01 -0500, Paul wrote:

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:

    I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...

    On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
    file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux
    systems.

    With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4.

    I’m sure you can, but you cannot switch filesystem types that way.

    File-level copying tools (like rsync) don’t care about low-level details
    like volume formats, which makes it easy to switch between them.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Jan 17 00:08:57 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:37:13 -0500, Paul wrote:

    A complete solution, these are some of the things it does.

    Unnecessary.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Jan 17 02:00:51 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-01-17 01:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:48:10 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2025-01-16 22:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing
    “bare-metal restores” on Linux.

    Not for restoring grub.

    After the bulk file copy (with rsync or other tool), you need to fix up
    two things:

    1) /etc/fstab with the new volume UUIDs

    No. I want the old UUIDs and labels.

    2) reinstall grub

    I don't want to.


    And you forget rebuilding initrd, which holds a copy of fstab. And you
    forget that there are encrypted partitions.


    That’s it. I have successfully migrated bootable systems many times using this procedure.


    I know. Me too.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Carlos E.R. on Fri Jan 17 02:46:44 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:00:51 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    On 2025-01-17 01:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    After the bulk file copy (with rsync or other tool), you need to fix up
    two things:

    1) /etc/fstab with the new volume UUIDs

    No. I want the old UUIDs and labels.

    I don’t care.

    2) reinstall grub

    I don't want to.

    I don’t care that you don’t.

    And you forget rebuilding initrd, which holds a copy of fstab.

    No it doesn’t.

    And you forget that there are encrypted partitions.

    Never bothered with that. These were servers on the customer’s LAN.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Jan 17 02:49:17 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:06:00 -0500, Paul wrote:

    You can freeze a copy of C: for example, and run a Robocopy over it.

    Until you hit the limitations of Windows and Robocopy, and have to give up
    on it and use Linux instead.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/>

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Fri Jan 17 03:51:42 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:49:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vmcgfd$3osq8$2@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:06:00 -0500, Paul wrote:

    You can freeze a copy of C: for example, and run a Robocopy over it.

    Until you hit the limitations of Windows and Robocopy, and have to give
    up on it and use Linux instead.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/>

    I suspect things may have changed in the last *14 years*.

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
    "Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law."

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Jan 17 02:10:16 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 1/16/2025 10:51 PM, vallor wrote:
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:49:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vmcgfd$3osq8$2@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:06:00 -0500, Paul wrote:

    You can freeze a copy of C: for example, and run a Robocopy over it.

    Until you hit the limitations of Windows and Robocopy, and have to give
    up on it and use Linux instead.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/>

    I suspect things may have changed in the last *14 years*.


    I think we discussed this one already.

    That's *not* how you transfer sixty million files.

    You image the partition with a cluster level tool,
    and by comparison to file level, it screams. It
    runs at disk speed.

    Then at the other machine, you restore at the cluster
    level. Now, all sixty million files are there, and you've
    saved enough time to take a vacation.

    I have samples of fragmented volumes here, stored as .mrimg .
    If I want to show an example of a fragmented volume, I can load
    one of those up in about ten minutes or so. The top one, is
    64 million files stored in a single directory. The second one
    is 64 million files in a tree.

    writeflat-64million-Ddrive-736391-00-00.mrimg 2,323,353,194 bytes
    writeidx4-64million-Ddrive-736391-00-00.mrimg 2,381,377,130 bytes

    It's the same with using 7ZIP for archiving. 7ZIP can run pretty
    fast, on solid block files of a good size. However, if you feed it
    a tree structure full of small files, it doesn't matter how fast your
    CPU is, the program "starves" for want of responses from the file system.
    You might get 10MB/sec from it. That's because the disk heads are
    flying around. Even if you use my RAMDrive for this, it's *still*
    slow. That doesn't help either, as just the file system stack takes
    too long per file handled.

    But working at the cluster level works a treat, a backup and restore
    and you're done. And it isn't even lunch hour yet. It does take
    time, for the backup tool to "crawl" the tree and make the
    index they like to use. That's still an expensive part of it.

    If you attack that problem file-by-file, it's the heat death of the
    universe bad.

    dir in command prompt took four minutes. Dumped to list.txt

    $ tail list.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFF8.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFF9.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFA.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFB.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFC.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFD.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFE.txt
    05/26/2024 06:09 AM 7 3FFFFFF.txt
    67108864 File(s) 469,762,048 bytes
    1 Dir(s) 7,497,859,072 bytes free
    $ head list.txt
    Volume in drive F is RAMDrive
    Volume Serial Number is 50A8-F4E5

    Directory of F:\out

    05/26/2024 06:09 AM <DIR> .
    05/26/2024 04:47 AM 7 0000000.txt
    05/26/2024 04:47 AM 7 0000001.txt
    05/26/2024 04:47 AM 7 0000002.txt
    05/26/2024 04:47 AM 7 0000003.txt

    $ wc -l list.txt
    67108872 list.txt

    Windows has a copy of tar.exe in System32 now, and I
    can try that, but it processes about 10MB/sec. A wild guess
    is that this might take two hours, but I can't really be sure.
    (You can't afford to turn on Verbose, or the terminal
    might become the limiting factor.)

    I'm trying to avoid explorer.exe getting a "whiff" of
    the folder, because once that happens, explorer rails
    on one core as it counts files and so on. The way to stop
    explorer.exe from working on that, is to rip the file system
    away, and once the "pointer" to the file system is not
    available any more, it stops. You would not want explorer.exe
    doing the copy. tar.exe is looking less efficient than
    a backup and restore (the restore of 64 million files took
    about 3 minutes 40 seconds). You can also kill explorer.exe in
    Task Manager and start another one, if you like.

    Robocopy should not be counting files like explorer.exe does
    when it prepares to do a copy, but I would expect it's going
    to be one of those two hour things. It's going to be in a
    different ballpark.

    Paul

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Jan 17 11:09:53 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    File-copying software like rsync is quite sufficient for doing ?bare-metal restores? on Linux.

    My apologies for breaking the thread (my earlier response has no 'References:' header). No idea how that happened.

    That's probably what you get for using vim to compose and a 'Unix'
    newsreader to post! :-)

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Jan 17 16:46:43 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:49:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vmcgfd$3osq8$2@dont-email.me>:

    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:06:00 -0500, Paul wrote:

    You can freeze a copy of C: for example, and run a Robocopy over it.

    Until you hit the limitations of Windows and Robocopy, and have to give
    up on it and use Linux instead.

    <https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/>

    I suspect things may have changed in the last *14 years*.

    Not to mention that the alleged limitations of Robocopy are bogus.

    And to finish it off, it's a perfect example of using the wong tool,
    instead of - oh irony - the tool which is the subject of this part of
    the thread, as Paul pointed out before and again pointed out in response
    to Lawrence' post.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Jan 17 23:55:45 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:10:16 -0500, Paul wrote:

    That's *not* how you transfer sixty million files.

    And yet it worked, as per the original article. Being a file-level copy,
    it could move the files between entirely different filesystem formats and volume sizes. And do so efficiently.

    Windows seems to force you into thinking in terms of sector-level copies
    and low-level “imaging” and like that. Filesystems are supposed to
    abstract away from all that. They do on Linux, but it seems Windows hasn’t quite caught up to that idea yet.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 17 23:56:06 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    The right tool turned out to be: “use Linux”.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Jan 17 20:54:44 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 1/17/2025 6:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    The right tool turned out to be: “use Linux”.


    The right tool turned out to be: "use a computer"

    Paul

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Jan 17 20:53:08 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 1/17/2025 6:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:10:16 -0500, Paul wrote:

    That's *not* how you transfer sixty million files.

    And yet it worked, as per the original article. Being a file-level copy,
    it could move the files between entirely different filesystem formats and volume sizes. And do so efficiently.

    Windows seems to force you into thinking in terms of sector-level copies
    and low-level “imaging” and like that. Filesystems are supposed to abstract away from all that. They do on Linux, but it seems Windows hasn’t quite caught up to that idea yet.


    No, you just gotta use your brain. That is all.

    Who in their right mind, picks the least efficient
    way to do something ? The slowness of large hard drives,
    demands discipline on the part of the operator, no
    matter what OS they're on. Always find and execute
    the efficient way.

    Why do yo think I do these experiments ? I want
    some measure of how bad these things are.

    at some point, the effects of file system slowness,
    are swamped out by the size of the files. If you
    have 64 million files each 1GB in size, then
    it hardly matters if an additional seek is required
    to stat() the file.

    *******

    I haven't finished testing, but while testing Macrium again,
    I noticed a new issue. These are the breadcrumbs.

    Feature_C12

    tune2fs -O ^orphan_file /dev/mydevice # I presume this downgrades 6.x kernel EXT4 with this being enabled.
    e2fsck -f /dev/mydevice # By doing that, Macrium Reflect should be able to back them up again.

    I got the warning about Feature_C12 and I also was not
    able to burrow into the EXT4_Feature_C12 partition with
    7ZIP switch army knife. So that feature is a general
    problem for me, and my small set of cross-platform tools.
    That is why I will need to finish testing it. Because the
    Feature_C12 is going to slowly leak into my disk collection.

    Paul

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Sun Jan 19 00:54:19 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:53:08 -0500, Paul wrote:

    On Fri, 1/17/2025 6:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Windows seems to force you into thinking in terms of sector-level
    copies and low-level “imaging” and like that. Filesystems are supposed >> to abstract away from all that. They do on Linux, but it seems Windows
    hasn’t quite caught up to that idea yet.

    No, you just gotta use your brain. That is all.

    Who in their right mind, picks the least efficient way to do something ?

    Nobody did. They picked the only way that would actually work, and that
    was to give up on Windows, and boot up a Linux system to access the same volumes.

    Remember, the Windows way was the least efficient way --- it was so inefficient, it was looking like it would never complete.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Paul on Sun Jan 19 00:55:09 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:54:44 -0500, Paul wrote:

    On Fri, 1/17/2025 6:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    The right tool turned out to be: “use Linux”.

    The right tool turned out to be: "use a computer"

    The right answer turned out to be: “use a *real* computer”.

    Here’s a nickel, kid. Go get yourself a real computer.

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