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University of Michigan unveils 1,500-pound Rubik's Cube[^]
This is insanity. Pure Insanity.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Exercise for the body and mind - bro, do you even twist? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Solved in 7 seconds 
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Imagine how big it would be if it included equipment to solve it like this one[^] (from an earlier news item, if I'm remembering correctly). (At those speeds, the centripetal forces would probably explode the cube at that size, without a heck of a lot more engineering!)
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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As I recall, they had to create a low-friction cube for the robot, so I guess the university students have to roll their mega cube back to the lab for a couple more years 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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To get those same speeds, a LOT more than just low-friction will need to be achieved! Spinning up a 3x3 grid that weighs 1500 / 3 = 500 lbs (as an approximation) at 6' across will require MANY horsepower for sub-tenths of a second response! And the material will have to be strong, to counter centripetal force.
Feel free to send funding my way, and I promise I'll maybe look into it more! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Well, if it ain't got a machine gun, I ain't calling it "Sir"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it:
c: OS, application sw, etc
d: main development SSD, project files
e: virtual machines
The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will:
(1) allow me to image an OS drive
(2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub.
thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive for all but code and movies.
Dropbox for code.
(This due to not having enough space on either for all of it. I prefer OneDrive, so might spring for an Office 360 subscription.)
I periodically xcopy/robocopy stuff to an external drive (which also holds my video collection as MP4s.)
Years ago, I did backups using a program. Upgraded everything and suddenly couldn't read my backups, so I reverted to xcopy/robocopy. For long term compressible stuff, I 7-Zip it.
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I'm going to ignore the others. It's Friday, and they are clearly drinking. Somehow I have to image my OS drive. The other stuff I can handle, but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Yeah, but by the time it truly dies, your backup may already be polluted.
BTW, I've briefly used a bundled version of Acronis, and it worked okay, but didn't see the point for my home system. Haven't used any others in years.
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clonezilla. Ugly interface, but it works.
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp
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this is very attractive to me. I will try it.
diligent hands rule....
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...waiting for Griff to answer this one. Can anybody guess?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Seriously? How much data can you get into a sheep? One mega-baa-yte. 
Sorry - it sounded funny in my head.
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Oh oh oh... you need to go to confession... so bad
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Before Griff gets his bit about AOMEI in, I am going to shout: "I use Macrium's Reflect!"
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Backup are for Girls
No, to be honest: I misuse Subversion as backup Software for all of my data I really are interesting in. And OS is not a realy important part of it
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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where is your repo?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Whatever came with the tape drive.
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Acronis True Image for the workstations, Windows server backup for the Servers. We have been scoffed at for using Windows Server Backup but I don't honestly know why. It's just plain bitchin. Does bare metal restore of everything - even exchange and file by file if you just need one back. Same as Acronis. What's more, Acronis can and will restore a Windows Server Backup VXD to dissimilar hardware, where Windows Server Backup does not.
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Ah yes, "bare metal" is what I need. I've used ATI in the past, went to disk imaging as it was much, much faster. Of course, it helped that I could pop out the hard drive on my Dell Precision in 20 seconds.
Thx Ron
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive seems pretty good.
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For bare metal or just dev areas? I can copy files with the best of them. Just curious as to your procedure.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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