Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.

'Destiny'


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le nubian - Mar 12, 2010 1:09:47 pm PST #13274 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Steph, how much space are you talking about?


Steph L. - Mar 12, 2010 1:23:09 pm PST #13275 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism

About 60 GB.


le nubian - Mar 12, 2010 1:40:29 pm PST #13276 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I agree with the external hard drive backup and store in a fireproof safe or something. It likely will be the cheapest for that amount of space.

Here is a review of some services though:

[link]

Don't use Carbonite.


NoiseDesign - Mar 12, 2010 2:54:09 pm PST #13277 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I'm on the fence between the 3G and non 3G iPad. I have a Verizon MiFi that I've got a two year contract on, so I'm kinda leaning towards doing the non 3G version.


Glamcookie - Mar 12, 2010 2:55:43 pm PST #13278 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

No 3G for me. I don't want the monthly outlay. Hell, I still have a first gen iPhone and it suits my needs just fine.


tommyrot - Mar 12, 2010 3:33:35 pm PST #13279 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

GC, I just read your tag as "Jesus had 2 cats."


Mala - Mar 14, 2010 10:23:28 am PDT #13280 of 25501

I'm considering getting the 3G and just not getting a contract right away. The flexibility of having it available when I want it but not being locked in is pretty sweet.


NoiseDesign - Mar 14, 2010 10:46:57 am PDT #13281 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I ended up preordering the non 3G 64 GB model.

Now I'm just waiting until April. Of course I will be out of town the day it delivers.


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2010 4:26:02 pm PDT #13282 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a PHP app that outputs an RSS feed. When I have it with the extension .rss and use

t Files index.rss
ForceType php5-cgi
t /Files

to override it and run as PHP, I get one result (RSS feeds for one subdomain).

When I name the same file .rss.php I get RSS feeds for multiple sites.

Any ideas what I should be even looking at to troubleshoot this? All I can think is that the ForceType is doing something slightly wacky.


Una - Mar 15, 2010 10:27:39 am PDT #13283 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.

iPad question for the Hive Mind:

Any ideas on whether it's going to be absolutely required to have OS 10.5.blah? I'm currently running 10.4.something, and really don't want to spend nearly $200 to upgrade it if I don't have to, since the only way I see to get Leopard (in the online Apple Store) is also bundled with iLife and iWork, which I have NO use for.

What I'm wondering is if I'm OK in my assumption that the iPad is kind of an oversized iPod Touch with internet access. I mostly want to use it for internet and email, and have no big desire to sync with my Mac Mini (as long as I can get files onto the iPad via internet/email, though obviously I'd like to be able to plug a thumb drive into it). I don't use an iPod, though, so I don't know if not syncing is even possible. And maybe I'm misunderstanding the functionality of the dock-USB cable....

(I just want a Mac netbook! wahhh!)