I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box

Panic stations.

The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.

You're basically running VNC or its ilk?

::clutches E61i tightly::

Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data

Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire.

The problem, can easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one. The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.

Users are reporting that the data is unrecoverable and cannot be found anywhere on the hard drive, and the only way to restore it is if the user has been performing backups on a separate hard-drive. Apparently the problem has been present since a few days after launch, as the forum post dates back to 12th September, but as of yet, Apple has been silent.

It seems the only work around at this stage is to disable the Guest account, or at least disable it and then re-enabling it so that it's a native Snow Leopard account. Another suggestion is to create a new account and enforce parental controls, if you really need a temporary account.

thanks for this. I'm disabling the guest accts on my computer ASAP.

OMG, the snark level of the comments on that site are at Biohazard Level.

I haven't installed Snow Leopard yet (or even bought it, really), but this is good to know.

However, I don't have a guest account on my Leopard computer. Just me.

I do because I have security software on my mac and they recommend a guest account. I'll disable and re-enable it.

Shiny! A portable media player right out of the 70s

The MyRacer Q10 is a portable media player that doesn't do too much more than any other PMP, but what makes it stand out to us is its stylings. Looking straight out of the 70s, it's got a great volume knob that sticks down below the rest of the device.

Despite its retro looks, it still supports all the major formats you'd expect, such as DivX, Xvid, MP3, AAC and WMA, and it has 4GB of storage and a 3-inch touchscreen. No word on price, but expect it to cost 2009 dollars, not 1970s dollars.

has anyone owned cd duplicators? It looks like we will doing more and more musicals here, and making 20 copies of a disc is time consuming, and probably not the best thing for my laptop's SuperDrive. I'm wondering if anyone has used a burner/printer, where you put in the original, and a stack of blanks, and it copies the original, and prints on the top side. Also thinking about the towers, with 1:3 or 1:5 duplicate ratio, where it's a bunch of CD-R's in a tower. I'm also debating spending the extra couple bucks to make it a DVD burner.

Anyhow, just wondering if anyone has any experience. It's a chunk of change.

omnis, what about an external cd drive? wouldn't that be cheaper and save wear and tear on your laptop?