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Clonezilla

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I’ve been asked several times about an alternative to Macrium Reflect Free since it is no longer free. I’ll be using it until it no longer works on my hardware.
The alternative I’ve always kept it my toolkit is Clonezilla, in fact I made a short video of Clonezilla in action over 6 years ago: Clonezilla Ain’t Hard.
Clonezilla runs off a “Live” cd or usb drive. There are 2 versions of that, alternative (dased on Debian) or alternative stable (based on Ubuntu). I recommend the alternative stable version, it probably has better hardware support.
There is also a GUI and enhanced version of Clonezilla called Rescuezilla.
Clonezilla was just updated (version 3.1.1-27/20231102).
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Clonezilla Live on USB flash drive or USB hard drive
How to Install Clonezilla on USB with YUMI

Friday Random Stuff…

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AMD Software Adrenalin 23.11.1 WHQL Drivers
Support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, The Invincible , JX3 Ultimate. Several fixes.
Download & Info

Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 546.01 WHQL
Support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Desynced, Jusant, and RoboCop: Rogue City. A handful of fixes.
Download | Release Notes
See also: GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 546.08

Intel Arc & Iris Xe Graphics 31.0.101.4952
A whole slew of game related support, improvements, and fixes.
Download & Info

dBpoweramp Music Converter R2023-11-01
“dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, Batch Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with essential codecs (mp3, wave, FLAC, m4a, Apple Lossless, AIFF), additional codecs can be installed from [Codec Central], as well as Utility Codecs which perform actions on audio files.”
Download & Info (update from within program) | Changes

Audacity 3.4
“the world’s most popular audio editing and recording app”
Several new features and fixes.
Download | Changelog, includes video on the “New Musical Features”.

A few more of my new favorite YouTube channels:
ATHLEAN-X
“This is where you can find all the latest FREE workouts, nutrition and training advice to get you on your way to a healthy, leaner, more muscular, athletic body by training like an athlete.”
Professor of Rock
“A channel celebrating the power of music – featuring stories of the greatest songs and artists of the Rock Era, as told by the artists themselves.”

We “Fall Back” Sunday
Here in the U.S.A., Daylight Saving Time ends at 0200hrs on Sunday, November 5th (except for Arizona and Hawaii). We set the clocks back 1 hour and go back to Standard Time.
NPR – Six things to know about the political debate around daylight saving time
“And pretty much everyone agrees that ending the time changes is generally a good idea. Our bodies can be very sensitive to disruptions to our circadian rhythms.
But the medical community has taken issue with how the bill proposes to make the change…”
I DGAF about how we get there but can we please just pick a time and leave it be?

Tuesday News

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EMDB 5.26
Freeware movie collection database software.2 new features and a few fixes.
Download | What’s New

PowerToys .75
“a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.”
Many fixes
Download, Info & Changes

VLC Media Player 3.0.20
“free and open source cross-platform multimedia player”
Addresses a security issue and a couple of fixes.
Download

Bike Ride: Back Bay to False Cape to NC

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Video of Bike Ride: Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, to False Cape State Park, down to North Carolina border, and back.
Total distance: 20.76 miles. Includes a few miles on the beach.
October 28th, 2023
Weather during ride: Mostly Sunny, lite winds, 70-82 degrees.
Due to the unusual, fantastic weather and the fact that Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge closes for the winter on Nov. 1st, the Back Bay portion was very busy. We didn’t see a soul the final few miles of the False Cape section.
The final stretch of 1.5 miles to the NC border involves walking/pushing your bike through sand. It ain’t easy.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/back-bay
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/false-cape
I recommend using the “Watch on YouTube” option.

Thursday News

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Google Chrome has gone to weekly releases and it feels like the posts here about it sound like a broken record. Done posting about it.

AMD Software Adrenalin 23.9.1 WHQL Drivers
Support for new hardware and some new features. See: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/software
Download & Info

HWiNFO 7.62
New hardware support and a few fixes/improvements.
Download ( I use portable) | Version History

CPU-Z 2.07
Support for the latest hardware and a single fix.
Download & Info