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From: Przemek Klosowski on 10 Mar 2010 22:39 On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:58:07 -0700, D Yuniskis wrote: > But, then I started thinking about it more. In particular, the fact > that I *only* use it in this word! And, have *never* used it in other > places where it "should" be used. > > (of course, no one *still* uses it at all, so this is a moot point) Pardon me, New Yorker always adds dieresis (pre:existing, co:operate, etc). I assume it's the New Yorker style guide, because the authors who also publish elsewhere do not show this in their other work (e.g. Malcolm Gladwell).
From: Dorsai on 10 Mar 2010 23:28 On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:39:05 +0000, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:58:07 -0700, D Yuniskis wrote: > >> But, then I started thinking about it more. In particular, the fact >> that I *only* use it in this word! And, have *never* used it in other >> places where it "should" be used. >> >> (of course, no one *still* uses it at all, so this is a moot point) > > Pardon me, New Yorker always adds dieresis (pre:existing, co:operate, > etc). I assume it's the New Yorker style guide, because the authors who > also publish elsewhere do not show this in their other work (e.g. > Malcolm Gladwell). Now if y'all could just move this to alt.anal-retentive, the newsgroup would be good again. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dorsai - Author of Erotic Fiction http://www.asstr.org/~Dorsai Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money.
From: D Yuniskis on 11 Mar 2010 10:53
Fred Abse wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:48:34 -0800, JosephKK wrote: > >> I use parted as needed. Not so skillful with dd yet. "cp -R *" and the >> like serve me pretty well. > > cp -R * won't transfer the boot sector, partition table, etc. > > Just use "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc" with the target drive on the second > IDE. Then go to bed. It'll be finished in the morning :-) bs= is often a worthwhile speedup. > Don't do it with mounted drives. Boot with a startup floppy or CD with a > copy of dd and parted on it. Don't worry about BIOS settings. Linux > doesn't use them for I/O. I've actually run a 40 gig HDD on a machine with > an 8 gig BIOS limit, (with a 1024 cylinder boot partition to fool it). Clonezilla is your friend. > You'll find all your original partitions recreated on your new drive, with > empty space left if it's bigger. It'll boot, too. > > Then use parted to stretch the created partition to the size of the new > (bigger) HDD. Go for breakfast whilst that's running. > > Thanks for the offer of the monitors. I have quite a few spare already. |