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thefightinglibrarian
Running after the 'Bus
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Sweet.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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if I didn't like it already, the fact he has a combination of Chocolate Rain mp3 and a picture of a platypus convinced me. :D
Posted 4 years ago # -
vestanpance
Harrison West/at work OSU
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that looks kick ass
Posted 4 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Very nice interface. I could see it being handy for a number of things.
Although I'll probably just wait until it's built into the OS in 10.6. ;)
I just upgraded to 10.5 and I'm loving the hell out of Time Machine (amongst other new Leopard features). Total set up time was like 10 minutes and now our two laptops wirelessly backup all of our files every hour that we're at home. I love it.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Daz
Tweeting about some totally unimportant event
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Walker wrote Very nice interface. I could see it being handy for a number of things.
Although I'll probably just wait until it's built into the OS in 10.6. ;)
I just upgraded to 10.5 and I'm loving the hell out of Time Machine (amongst other new Leopard features). Total set up time was like 10 minutes and now our two laptops wirelessly backup all of our files every hour that we're at home. I love it.
Did it say it was going to be built into 10.6? I would've never guessed Apple would put something in that would directly affect their making money (as it would completely destroy .mac). Meanwhile, I really enjoy Leopard, but haven't done anything with Time Machine yet. I need somewhere to back my stuff up first.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Daz wrote Did it say it was going to be built into 10.6?
No. I'm just saying that any third party app worth having eventually finds it's way into the OS. ;)
Daz wrote Meanwhile, I really enjoy Leopard, but haven't done anything with Time Machine yet. I need somewhere to back my stuff up first.
If you have an spare hard drives laying around, go pick up an enclosure for cheap and get it running. Or you can get a new unit fairly cheaply. I picked up a 500GB Maxtor drive from Microcenter that can do both USB or FireWire400 for $160.
It's pretty nifty.
Posted 4 years ago # -
turnedNOTburned
Grandview/Columbus, Ohio
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Hrmmm,
Its handy, but, I think the direction the technology is going might make http://www.google.com/apps/business/index.html more logical for computers staying connected to the internet. I think we're going to be relying less on local (PC based) file stores, and more on online storage given better security, backup, and portability. Laptops and other "loosely connected" devices might be better serviced by dropbox (collaboration and synchronization is a PAIN for loosely connected PC's - online/realtime collaboration is SO much easier in real life)
I've been using the Google business portal for about 3 months now to run my turning business (http://www.turnedandburnedonline.com) and use the Google apps (doc, spreadsheet and calendar) which makes it available on a mac or a PC - totally platform independent - even accessible from my smartphone.
With Microsofts .net, java, etc..., and other web based applications (read: services), we'll be "renting" or leasing access to a lot of these products within the next 10 years - even operating systems for internet connected computers. Distribution, support, broader client base, will make it better/cheaper/faster. Google is way ahead of MS on this (and a major reason why MS wants Yahoo).
For backups, I HIGHLY recommend http://www.mozy.com $5 bucks a month, unlimited storage. Unless you house your backup harddrive in an independent, fire/disaster safe location and back it up regularly (all of which would be a PAIN), this is the way to go. Its safe, backed up, runs overnight when you're not using your computer, and allows you to recover previous version. Its not as "Apple-easy" as timemachine, but, its MUCH safer, and IMHO more cost effective than any local drive solution.
- Devo
Posted 4 years ago # -
th0m
Beechwold
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Subscription services are literally nickel & diming ponzi schemes, I dunno ... what are you really getting? I think Amazon's S3 is cool and modular and scalable on-demand and all, but if you really knew what you wanted to begin with, I think going with someone else would be cheaper.
Google apps is pretty cool, especially in the non-business arena... I saw a workflow on the web mentioned yesterday of using Google Notebook (w/ firefox addon) -> Docs -> Blogger API ... this seems like the great annotate-and-republish thing that the W3C always intended with their Annotea and Amaya browser, but is effectively the workflow that people have when they post to del.icio.us or digg, or make link blogs or forum posts. I'd like to see a Google Docs -> PHPBB interconnect! A true read-write web.
So, it could be said that the old thing that IBM said "I can only see a market for maybe 4 computers" was off by three... the net is a single distributed cluster supercomputer and we are all merely nodes on it.
Which makes me laugh when I read about Google Gears or Adobe Air offering "offline applications" and someone on /. said "oh, you mean, *applications*" ? hehehe... to be fair being able to cue up auctions for ebay offline using Air is interesting, but old news to die hard ebayers, and auctions have jumped the shark anyway... so I haven't really seen any killer app for an "offline web application" ... and having all of your documents online just means that while you can get them from anywhere or any device, those devices are now chronically out of sync unless they're online..... so what's the benefit here? I think it just sweeps the mess into a different room, honestly.
Posted 4 years ago # -
michaelcoyote
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turnedNOTburned wrote For backups, I HIGHLY recommend http://www.mozy.com $5 bucks a month, unlimited storage. Unless you house your backup harddrive in an independent, fire/disaster safe location and back it up regularly (all of which would be a PAIN), this is the way to go. Its safe, backed up, runs overnight when you're not using your computer, and allows you to recover previous version. Its not as "Apple-easy" as timemachine, but, its MUCH safer, and IMHO more cost effective than any local drive solution.
As someone In the backup business, Mozy is what I recommend to clients and friends when they ask about home and personal computers. I like it well enough to use it on my windows machines. They also have a client for Mac. I should also point out that if you use less that 2 GB of aggregate storage on Mozy the service is free.
The only warning I have about Mozy is that if you delete a file on you computer it will expire off the site in 30 days. While this shouldn't affect most people, but users should be aware that Mozy isn't an archiving solution where the files stay around forever.
Posted 3 years ago # -
BrianG
Victorian Village
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michaelcoyote wrote
turnedNOTburned wrote For backups, I HIGHLY recommend http://www.mozy.com $5 bucks a month, unlimited storage. Unless you house your backup harddrive in an independent, fire/disaster safe location and back it up regularly (all of which would be a PAIN), this is the way to go. Its safe, backed up, runs overnight when you're not using your computer, and allows you to recover previous version. Its not as "Apple-easy" as timemachine, but, its MUCH safer, and IMHO more cost effective than any local drive solution.
As someone In the backup business, Mozy is what I recommend to clients and friends when they ask about home and personal computers. I like it well enough to use it on my windows machines. They also have a client for Mac. I should also point out that if you use less that 2 GB of aggregate storage on Mozy the service is free.
The only warning I have about Mozy is that if you delete a file on you computer it will expire off the site in 30 days. While this shouldn't affect most people, but users should be aware that Mozy isn't an archiving solution where the files stay around forever.
I've been using Mozy since the start of the year. I haven't needed to do a large restore, but tests have worked well. All of my data is stored on a RAID5 file server and critical data is replicated between a few PCs I have and backed up to Mozy.
That said, DropBox looks like a decent choice for sharing files.
Posted 3 years ago #
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