When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
Windows version of Unix dd command. Safe, effort-free backup for FAT, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 partitions. used to copy regions of raw device files, e.g. backing up the boot sector of a hard disk, or to read fixed amounts of data from special file
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