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“A guy breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he’s in there, the husband tells his wife: “Listen, this guy’s an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn’t seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don’t resist, don’t complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he’ll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you.” To which his wife responds: “He wasn’t kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!!”

Some questions that the EFF wants to ask the industry reps:

• Major entertainment companies have repeatedly brought lawsuits to block new technologies, including the VCR, Digital Audio Tape recorders, the first MP3 player, the ReplayTV PVR, and now P2P software. Why is your industry so hostile to new technologies?
• DRM has clearly failed to stop songs from getting on file sharing networks, but it does prevent me from moving lawfully purchased music onto my iPod and other portable devices. Unlike the major record labels, many popular indie labels offer mp3 downloads through sites like eMusic. Why won’t you let fans purchase mp3s as well?
• The major movie studios have been enjoying some of their most profitable years in history over the past five years. Can you cite to any specific studies that prove noncommercial file sharing among fans, as opposed to commercial DVD piracy, has hurt the studios’ bottom line in any significant way?
• Is it legal for me to bypass CSS DVD encryption in order to skip the “unskippable” previews at the beginning of so many DVDs? Why should I have to be forced to watch these ads when I already bought the DVD?

Good luck.

source: ars.tech

A detailed write-up is here.
Use Knoppix LiveCD and/or GParted for resizing.

cloning ntfs partitions:

ntfsclone --save-image --output ntfs-backup.img /dev/hda1
ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda1 ntfs-backup.img

cloning mbr:

dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1

If MBR is not copied, try this (an equivalent to fdisk /mbr):

install-mbr

If the original partition needs to be resized, run chkdsk before cloning.

sources:
http://www.mckeay.net/secure/2004/10/using_dd_to_clone_a_hd.html http://www.justlinux.com/forum/printthread.php?t=134457

I was having difficulty getting the RSS feed redirected to the new location after the move. But I figured it out — it was actually right in my admin toolkit. Just used the .htaccess wrapper program to create a permanent redirect (all on one line):

RedirectMatch permanent ^/index.rdf$ http://tintedpane.com/wp/index.php/feed

I did try that before, but without the character matching ^ and $. And instead of using a javascript or meta redirect such as this in a blank index.html file:

< script type="text/javascript" / >
location.replace(’wp/index.php’);
< meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=wp/index.php" / >

I put in another redirect for the main page:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://tintedpane.com/wp/index.php

This is an old draft I stumbled upon. Don’t know why I didn’t publish it earlier (2003-05-02).

Linky
Here’s a taste:

sorry, the original was already poorly resized.

• Comcast - tech sleeping on couch
• RIAA
• Clear Channel

A bit of a rehash. Raced/Paced a Ford GT today down the toll. For a couple grand, being able to keep up with a supercar is pretty good. The driver probably wasn’t that experienced as he braked a lot for the turns, but it was a good fun minute or so of mostly WOT. The bike really likes to keep going in a straight line at speed so a lot of leaning and pulling on the handlebars was necessary.