Now that I've upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard (er...a few months ago), I'm getting around to setting up Time Machine. I'm backing up to an external HD that's plugged into my Airport Extreme base station. I've downloaded TimeMachineEditor to change the backup interval, because doing it hourly is crazy. Anyone have any other useful Time Machine suggestions?
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
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Una - Jul 26, 2010 11:39:09 am PDT #14534 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
DCJensen - Jul 26, 2010 5:01:26 pm PDT #14535 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
-- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.
All praise LOC, LOC is wise.
Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2010 4:22:41 am PDT #14536 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Apple has new iMacs, a 27" display, the Magic Trackpad, (which I will probably end up getting), and, finally, new Mac Pros (available in August).
Jessica - Jul 27, 2010 4:32:52 am PDT #14537 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the Magic Trackpad
Oh man, I want that for my work machine! Except it's an old G5 with no bluetooth. BOO.
DCJensen - Jul 27, 2010 6:00:02 am PDT #14538 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I wonder if you can use a bluetooth USB dongle?
Jessica - Jul 27, 2010 6:03:13 am PDT #14539 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wouldn't help - Snow Leopard only runs on Intel.
Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2010 6:43:33 am PDT #14540 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I didn't notice that Apple will be dropping both the 24" and 30" monitors, and will only be selling the 27" going forward.
omnis_audis - Jul 27, 2010 8:56:08 pm PDT #14541 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Magic TrackpadPretty sweet! Love the new trackpad on my new work MacBookPro. Dunno if it's worth $70 for a 'mouse'.
omnis_audis - Jul 28, 2010 8:55:27 am PDT #14542 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I am on my work computer trying to figure out how to get the neat feature in Thunderbird that my home computer has. For the life of me, I can't find where to turn on the Quick Filter option, and don't recall doing it on my home machine. After much research, I come to realize, that is a new feature to 3.1. Home is auto update the software, work, was not. All fixed. Thought I'd share the funny.
ION- It seems work has in a closet, a shiny cheese grater Apple G5 tower. Apparently missing some internal parts (at least the hard drives, and something to do with the processor). Not sure what is wrong with it, that caused them to partially gut it. It being so pretty, it pains me to see it just sitting in the closet. I was curious if anyone had any thoughts? Can I completely gut it and rebuild it as an Intel machine? Or is the architecture different? Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Since it is University property, we can't toss it. And since IT purchased it, I can't give it away. And apparently since it's old technology, IT doesn't want it back.
NoiseDesign - Jul 28, 2010 9:24:12 am PDT #14543 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
It's a bit of a doorstop. If youcan get it running you could use it for Qlab, but you'll probablyspend more than it is worth getting it running. I have a dual core G5 tower collecting dust in my office right now. It gets turned on about every 8 months to run a system update.