dd on Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Hi All, I have a question that, personally, I find somewhat amusing... I have a user that needs a bigger hard drive in his laptop. Naturally, he is running Win2K (damn sales people...). But, he needs everything moved from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives,

Re: dd on Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Ken Ambrose
Yah; works like a charm. Honestly, though, I use cat (eg. cat /dev/source /dev/dest), -- works great, too, and you don't need to know your source's size, either -- it just ends when there's no more data. (Also the way I create/write floppy images.) As for your geometry, all will probably be

Re: dd on Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Ben Boulanger
On 1 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other. Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1)

Re: dd on Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I would think you could use dd (either from linux or cygwin utils under windows) to copy drives of the same geometry. With drives of different geometries you will most likely have more difficulty. I won't say it's not possible, but, I would guess that would be more steps involved and not having

Article

2002-08-01 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
As I was parusing Kero5hin, I came accross a great article. It is a public apology to the Linux world for getting RMS on the GNU/Linux kick. Funny read http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/8/1/04512/12614 C-Ya, Kenny --

Nahhh, we don't need to secure the *internal* network....

2002-08-01 Thread pll
We're behind a firewall. We're safe! http://online.securityfocus.com/news/558 Think again! (not that we haven't said *that* before either ;) -- Seeya, Paul * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

GNHLUG / Boston User Groups MegaMeeting III

2002-08-01 Thread Bruce Dawson
GNHLUG is pleased to announce that we are participating in this year's Boston User Groups' MegaMeeting III. All local, technical user groups are invitited to this meeting, which will be attended by 400-500 IT and computer-related professionals in the Boston area, including CEOs, CTOs,

Re: Nahhh, we don't need to secure the *internal* network....

2002-08-01 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
So, basically, be suspicious if anyone brings in a gaming console and sets it up in the breakroom. My favorite quote form this was: Most organizations focus on the perimeter, said Davis. Once you get through the outside, there's a soft chewy center. Not a bad read. A little light on the

Re: Article

2002-08-01 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Maybe we should call it: G/linl - Gnu/linux is not linux. That should clear up all the confusion ;) -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: As I was parusing Kero5hin, I came accross a great article. It is a public apology to the Linux world for getting RMS on the GNU/Linux kick. Funny

Re: Article

2002-08-01 Thread Jon Hall
Hi, When RMS started the campaign, I thought it was a big pain in the butt. On the other hand, I did agree that the work that the FSF and others (XFree86, KDE, etc.) was getting lost in the commotion about Linux. While I still tend to call the OS Linux, now I mention the FSF and the other

Re: Article

2002-08-01 Thread bscott
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, at 4:26pm, Jon Hall wrote: So his campaign worked, to a large extent. Unfortunately, his campaign also alienated a lot of (potential) supporters. I have to wonder if he didn't end up with a net loss. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this

Re: Nahhh, we don't need to secure the *internal* network....

2002-08-01 Thread Tom Buskey
I'd think an old 386 would be alot less noticable and more disposable. Heck, how about a floppy based system? Go up to an existing machine already running on a friday afternoon and boot. If it's a floppy, have it erase itself after it boots. It'd probably run undetected until monday morning.