Three Wise Men

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Your Ubuntu Linux installation is getting bigger and bigger and you are running out of space on your hard disk. You got your new hard drive and now you need to clone your old drive to the new one. The dreaded cloning is actually quite easy and relatively simple to do. The only thing you will need is a little patience and some typing skills. No special software just your already installed Ubuntu Linux.

The regular obligatory disclaimer: This procedure worked for me several times, I use it almost on a daily basis and I had no problems with it. Your mileage my vary. Make sure you double check all the commands that you type and that you do not format your data drive. You will end up with two empty disks. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

While preparing my new workstation I stumbled upon a problem on how to boot VirtualBox machine from a USB fash drive. Pretty soon I discovered that VirtualBox has no support for booting from USB devices. Something with their BIOS not supporting it and that implementing this wouldn’t bring a lot to the whole package.

Read on if you want to know more.

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Every now and then people lose or forget their passwords. Sometimes you’ll have this need to hack into someone’s computer. Well, this is a basic tutorial on how to change your password even if you can’t login in the system since you forgot your password.

We’ll need:

• Running computer with Ubuntu and no known passwords
• Ubuntu 8.10 Bootable Live CD
• Dumb user like me who forgot his own password