[07:07] schestowitz[07:08] schestowitzSystem imaging is a nerdy topic. But it is an important topic. If and when you introduce big changes to your operating system baseline, you want to have the ability to roll those changes back in case of an error or some odd incompatibility. Different operating systems - and filesystems - resolve this quandary in various ways. The most prevalent, common among them is system imaging - you grab a time snapshot [07:07] schestowitz of your system state, and later on, restore it if you need to.
[07:07] schestowitzIn Linux, the quintessential tool for the job is the powerful CloneZilla, an awesome, versatile tool about which I wrote a complete tutorial back in 2011. It works great, but it has one caveat. It's nerdy even for nerds, and requires a far deal of expertise to use with confidence. Enter RescueZilla, a open-source disk management suite designed to provide the full CloneZilla functionality with a convenient [07:07] schestowitz GUI on top of it. Well, let's explore.
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[07:08] schestowitz[07:08] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | Valve Interviewed with Another Japanese Outlet: SteamOS To Expand Portable Gaming Market to Other Devices - Boiling Steam [07:08] schestowitzA few days after the previous interview of Valve representatives in Japan from Nikkei that we covered, heres another interview from the Japanese publication Automaton-Media this time with Ricky Uy, President of KOMODO, the distributor in Japan, Lawrence Yang, UX designer at Valve, and Erik Peterson, Steam business manager. If you use the below translation please link to Boiling Steam.
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[07:37] schestowitz[07:37] schestowitzTwo weeks ago, some of us were in Paris, France, to celebrate ten years of Guix! The event included 22 talks and 12 lightning talks, covering topics ranging from reproducible research on Friday and Guix hacking on Saturday and Sunday.
[07:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-guix.gnu.org | Wrapping up Ten Years of Guix in Paris 2022 Blog GNUGuix [07:37] schestowitz
[07:39] schestowitz[07:39] schestowitzI've also had several people ask me how I'm voting myself, as I started this GR in the first place. I'm happy to oblige! Here's my vote, sorted into preference order: [...]
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[07:39] schestowitz[07:39] schestowitzWhenever I browse through the web, I find many tips and tricks from various blog writers, YouTubers and others who recommend users to take steps that either they arent supposed to, or have better alternatives. In this article, I will go over some of those steps you should not be taking and explain why.
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[07:40] schestowitz[07:40] schestowitzIf youre more than 30 years old, then there is a good chance that BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was the first programming language you used. Many early computers shipped with a BASIC interpreter in firmware, so it was the first thing users saw when they booted up their computer. While other languages are more useful for most tasks today, BASIC still has benefits. To take [07:40] schestowitz advantage of it, Stefan Lenz used a Nano RP2040 Connect to build a standalone computer that runs BASIC for Internet of Things applications.
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[07:48] schestowitz[07:48] schestowitzPeople who are not already in a predicament like this should avoid getting caught in Microsofts tar pit.
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[08:18] schestowitz[08:18] schestowitzIn a related development, earlier this week Apple announced that it would be manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India as well.
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