This little known app. I find it useful on MATE / XFCE
added to list..
That's actually a pretty nice tool, I'll add it to the list later.
Oddly, it being a github link reminded me of this gem:
Yea kind of wish it was on SolusOS. Its so handy when you swap between headphones / DAC etc.. Gnome and cinnamon have this baked in.
you should be able to change your DE to whatever you prefer
It's a Distro the packaging is different from Arch, ubuntu.
I have a separate 3.5' drive for backing up data (data being - everything that is not a program, pictures, music, installations, work projects...). I also use some SD cards and USBs for storage and backing up.
The smaller (let's call it "master") 2.5' drive is the one that came with the laptop. When I bought an SSD, I set up everything just the way I wanted, drivers, framework, programs, directory hierarchy; and cloned it to the SSD (inserted via caddy) using Samsung's Magician software. Once they're cloned, they are identical, including the registry. Later i just swap them and put the "master" drive away with the caddy, so I'm left with only the SSD. I can swap this SSD for that "master" drive at any time and everything would work. I would just be missing some data which I accumulate yearly as well as a dozen or so programs that I didn't put on it because they need regular updates. I just download the latest versions, instead.
The only "flaw" is that the "master" drive works exclusively on this laptop. Which is fine by me.
edit: I'm using Windows 7 and updates are turned off. I'm not sure how this would work on Linux.
Then just download and manually compile/install from source
i know, i should ;)
On *linux it would need a significant amount of scripting to accommodate for each users particular quirks, distro, and package management, but it should still be possible
This video (ignore the twangy guitar music)
Featuring this thing.
And despite appearances, it does actually appear to work.
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I've actually seen this before, and I'll definitely give it credit for being weird. it's too bad it has such a list of things that make it impractical, as the idea of just hooking up a powerhouse to my laptop when I want to run hashcat or something is pretty awesome
yeah, having a janky PSU setup and an HDMI franken-connector hooked up to the bottom of a laptop is kinda odd... I'll be trying this out with an old C2D tablet sometime down the road, hopefully, so it should be fun :D
Honestly I have at least 5 of the same level of jank PSUs set up in my room, but, yeah, it's the franken-cable running into the bottom that's a turn off to me.
I was thinking in terms of the cloning procedure and cloning software.
No scripting should be required to do this. Once you set up everything just the way you want it (user preferences, package managers and additional repositories) and make a clone, the drive that gets stored away is basically like a time capsule. All of the information is stored on the drives, the rest of the laptop is just an exo-suit.
Think of it as cloning the entire machine (PC or laptop). Except that one of the 2 machines is your daily driver which gets filled with yearly garbage, while the other gets turned on once a year. It should still work. The drives are connected to the exact same hardware.
Oh, I see, hell, in that case I can just dd it to an iso and shove it away.
That's why I mentioned Clonezilla, there's lots of ways of doing it on linux and you can use USB's or SD cards instead of an HDD.
Back on topic, another software gem that I like is Scrivener. For anything longer than 3 pages and anything that requires compiling and organizing research material, this thing is my MS Word substitute. It was originally designed for literature and creative writers, and maybe screenplays. I've used it for everything: freelance writing, uni projects, Honours thesis, and now Master's Thesis. It requires a lot of un-learning if you come from MS Word, but it's worth it.
It does look rather different than most word processors. A bummer that it's paid, but I'll add it to the list
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they have a handfull of cd's
http://www.megadriver.com.br/
sounds much nicer mastered
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