Next up you need a bog-standard 3.5″ hard disk, and an external disk enclosure. Easy enough to buy the two separate and assemble yourself; all you need is a small phillips screwdriver for the job.

The Knoppix CD can be used to boot the PC, and the new hard disk can then be plugged into the USB port of the PC, and a complete backup of data made from the old PC disk to the one in the USB enclosure. After that, please yourself when you replace the disk since you’ve got a backup.

Knoppix CDs also have memtest-86 on them; useful for diagnosing knackered memory on PCs.

Its become a facet of our age typified by the yellow police incident signs. No perpetrator description means only one thing. Do the people who do this think that Londoners are going to form flash lynch mobs like the villagers in Frankenstein moves?

@StefZ

Yep, the differences between the UK and the rest of the world are narrowing at an alarming pace but those causes are a complex web running over decades. What uncontrolled migration does mean is that it becomes harder for ethnically indigenously British people who want to fight the rot to group and campaign. I think you’re wrong in your assertion that migrants will be scapegoated, they have a different attraction in that they have well established tribal self-interests and a predilection towards bribery maintaining the status-quo inherited from their homelands. They serve a purpose in the “cold conflict” in that they bog down dissent by force of number at the cohesive end of society, education, transport, health care and housing. I expect more immigrant internecine conflict as things get difficult; but that’s the plan.

@City

I think my wife falls into the category “foreign totty” so I understand the sentiment, I hope your wife does too.

@Xoggoth

Agreed. However without restrictions on immigration that prison population will continue to grow indefinitely.

I think there is a good case for a progressive increase in sentence for those repeatedly convicted. Maybe a formula that adds all or part of their last remission onto current sentence according to how long they stay out of trouble.

Still some of the foreign totty is superb so we have to look on the bright side too.

the migration ‘debate’ is following a perfectly predictable arc

a glance at even the totally crooked official migration statistics shows that inward migration leaped up in 1997 as soon as Nu Labour came to power

and now, the same government which permitted/ abetted that unprecedented inflow is, little by little, starting to demonise migrants

my concern about the focus on migrants is not derived from some idealised, fluffy ideals but from the fact that I believe migrants are going to be used as scapegoats for a worsening economic situation and heaps of repressive legislation and authoritarian government

variations of this kind misdirection have happened too frequently in the past for me to believe that it is the result of an accident or ignorance

I’m closer to your point of view than you might think and I’m not blind to the differences you refer to. I also believe that the differences between those other parts of the world and the UK are narrowing. What I don’t believe is that mass inward migration is the key driver for this convergence. We’d be heading that way regardless

Even Macs have disks die on them.

Look at this I pulled of the Seagate community forum :

I’ve received four, one after the other from suppliers, of this 7200.11 drive. Each have had similar issues: before even getting to format them they fail and the BIOS can no longer recognize them.
 
From one of the suppliers, out 29 drives, 17 were essentially DOAs and returned to that supplier. That was from the first supplier I used. The last one requires me to send the drive back to Seagate under warranty which I haven’t done yet, or even tried.
 
What is the re-call status of this drive, the 320-Gigabyte, single platter drive? Are others have similar problems?
 
frank
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I bought two of the ST3320613AS drives and they both had the same problem. I was unable to format the disks. I have of course contacted Seagate but their support is helpless! Returning the drives back to the shop where I originally got them from. Let the retailer deal with Seagate while I get my money back!
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Thanks for the info… I was hoping Seagate would be more helpful… I’ll start with them on Monday. I’m not sure the last dealer I bought my drive from will accept the return.
 
The first supplier I bought three from, in their forum, of 29 customers only 12 said they received good drives… the rest were essentially DOA.

Outsourced manufacturing in the Far East on the cheap with chronic quality control is slowing destroying the world economy. Can people learn before the wheels come off the proverbial cart? I hope so.

Not that I\’m claiming that should be any consolation

I don\’t think anyone here needs reminding but migrants are people same as you and me and have the potential to be as law-abiding, or as criminal, as the indigenous population

Problems will arise, of course, if you make a cack-handed mess of your national immigration policy and stick in too many people, too quickly and create such an inconsistent policy that it positively favours the dodgiest characters

What\’s especially rich about the current situation is that the governing political party which until recently was quick to denounce anyone expressing concerns as being racist now seems to have moved sharply across the political spectrum and is fighting a turf war with the BNP

As an example, Tamsin Dunwoody\’s campaign page for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election is worth a quick peek before it gets taken down in shame next week after Labour gets the stuffing it so richly deserves…

http://www.creweandnantwichlabour.org.uk/dont_be_conned_by_tory_boy