waybackmachine.org rocks! It’s a site opperated by archive.org that shows old versions of websites. Check out these photos I just found on it!

Woo Hoo… Welcome to my new server. The site should be much faster now.

Well after many hours of messing round with various tools to clone a hard disk I went back to basics. I found the easiest way to do it was to wack both HDs in the same machine and boot a knoppix live cd. Then simply enter the following:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32522 &

Then you can monitor the status of dd using a kill signal as follows:

kill -n USR1 <pid>

Where <pid> is the process id of the dd command.

Takes about an hour to clone an 80 Gig drive. It is important to remember that the hard drives need to be the same size. Anyway, worked a treat for what I needed.

I may not be the biggest subscriber to Microsoft products. In fact I reckon I use Linux 90% of the time. But this is something that has two benefits. Firstly it takes some revenue that Microsoft from those adverts they display to us in Messenger, and secondly it gives that money website to charity. Can’t be all that bad. Just click the link below to join in.