[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 87, Issue 6

[James Sundquist]

What trusted sources do you go to for news?  I get Linux Questions,  
Linux Today and Lifehacker.  Lifehacker is the only consistent good  
source of RSS Linux news I read, but they only post one or two  
relevant articles per day.  Linux Today just reposts the same articles  
and most of them read as mere opinions aka "10 awesome ___ for  
Linux.". What am I missing outside of forums and podcasts?  Pps I'm  
running arch/crunchbang and have 3 yrs experience in Linux if it helps



On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:00, conspire-request at linuxmafia.com wrote:

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>   1. Why SSDs degrade (Nick Moffitt)
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> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:04:28 +0100
> From: Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net>
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: [conspire] Why SSDs degrade
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> Don Marti:
>> begin Nick Moffitt quotation of Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:37:15AM  
>> +0100:
>>> So they used the fast fixed-head ring-shaped disk for the most core
>>> OS files, and used the slower large-volume disk packs for everything
>>> else, mounting whole disk packs onto /home and /usr and /var and
>>> wherever else they were likely to need lots of space.
>>
>> Man, everything you need to know about new technology you can learn
>> from the Old School.  Today, on servers, it's fast-seeking SSDs and
>> high-capacity spinning drives.
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/3 is a typical trust-nothing tech
> article, with those "let's just pretend you're not blocking ads"
> keep-clicking-onward multi-page cliffhanger layouts, but it is an
> interesting summary of why the fragmentation curve is so steep on  
> SSDs,
> and supports Linus's opinion you really shouldn't trust anybody but
> Intel.
>
> I'd be interested to see this confirmed or refuted in a less  
> irritating
> medium.
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>                -- Alan Cox
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> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:57:57 -0700
> From: Margaret Wendall <mwendall at gmail.com>
> To: Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com>
> Cc: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Re: [conspire] How do I determine what I need to keep from my
>    internal hard drive and what is the recommend way to move things  
> to an
>    external hard drive
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> Darlene, when I back my hard drives up, I always include the drivers  
> for
> hardware that I've had to download for one reason or another. It  
> saves a lot
> of time and hair in an emergency. Margaret Wendall
>
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Darlene Wallach <freepalestin at dslextreme.com
>> wrote:
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>> Looks like my laptop has a loose connection and fixing it is cost
>> prohibitive so it makes more sense to buy a new laptop. So how do I
>> determine what to save off/keep/backup/image from my internal hard
>> drive? And what is the recommended way to save the stuff off?
>>
>> I have an external hard drive I can move things to.
>>
>> I already moved all the data files onto my external hard drive.
>>
>> Thank you for your attention, advice, and assistance
>>
>> Darlene Wallach
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