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All good things must come to an end.

Neil Peart is ‘no longer physically capable’ of playing live | Gigwise

Source: Rush’s Alex Lifeson confirms that the band won’t tour again | Gigwise

Got a 6TB hdd from tigerdirect.ca on sale, and finally put it in my new machine. Guess what? Windows didn’t want anything to do with it. It only saw the first 2TB, and wouldn’t let me address the rest of it. After hours of googling, I found the following tip.

I assume it is a new drive, and not an existing drive that has stopped working? I believe the drive needs to be initialised as GPT.

open an elevated command prompt (right click ‘Command prompt’ in start menu and select ‘Run as Administrator’, or type in CMD in search and do the same).

Type the following followed by enter:
diskpart
list disk
select disk # (where # is the 6 TB drive)
clean
convert GPT
create partition primary
assign
format quick
exit

Do NOT get the disk wrong when you select the disk! Only do this if there is no data on the 6 TB drive.

It should now show in Windows. keep in mind that it may or may not be bootable depending on you motherboard, it should be though. However, it won’t be bootable from Windows 7. In any case, I’m guessing it is just for storage?

Now I did a few other things that didn’t help on their own but may be part of the solution.

The price of the security state in Canada just went up. $160 for a passport, and the form is full of questions that are beyond invasion of privacy. Welcome to the global security state Canada.

Save the Gardiner Expressway! Who knew things would come to this! Log in below to their site and help save it!

Coalition in Support of the East Gardiner Hybrid Renewal

Source: Thank you! | Don’t cut-off the Gardiner: Keep Toronto Moving

The new media is really lost when it comes to how to make money. Paid subs can and will never work, at least for now.

We are announcing the cancellation of Digital Access, our paid digital subscription program for readers of our website, thestar.com, effective April 1, 2015.

via Note to Readers: Star to end paid digital subscriptions on April 1 | Toronto Star.

I was no big fan of Sears, but once the wolves get a hold of a public stock (when it’s in play), they tend to destroy the company and sell off its parts.

The Canadian business, which was perfectly healthy and profitable when I left, has been a victim of Lampert’s intent to essentially liquidate the business,” Mr. Cohen said. “It’s a tragedy.”

via Sears Canada ‘tragedy’ seen as victim of overreach by U.S. hedge fund tycoon Edward Lampert | Financial Post.

Who does most of the dirty jobs that native born Canadians won’t or don’t do?

New immigrants.  I am a witness to some of the hardest working blue collar workers around.  The men from Punjab are hard working, 
peaceful,  and not afraid to get dirty. 

Remember this the next time you decide to bash a brown person’s good name.

Below: is this a picture from the third world? No it’s a scene from Canada where workers (temps) work hard separating recycling material for further processing.

I’ve always enjoyed John Downing ‘ writings. Here’s why.

Just another town in Ontario but special in my memory.
The homes may have changed with porches and alterations but inside are friends whose faces haven’t changed since school.

http://blog.johndowning.ca/2014/06/you-can-go-back-to-that-small-town.html