I am way more likely to do timely backups on the USB-powered drive. It's that one more bit of simple. I just drag it over to wherever I am and let Time Machine whirl.
That is 100% me.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
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Steph L. - May 24, 2011 5:27:32 pm PDT #16810 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Sue - May 24, 2011 6:14:49 pm PDT #16811 of 25501
hip deep in pie
Is one prong wider than the other? Do your outlets have one slot wider than the other so that the plug can only go in one way? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you've got nothing to worry about. Everything is correctly grounded.
Um...both prongs are the same size. I think I'll be returning this baby.
Liese S. - May 24, 2011 6:52:54 pm PDT #16812 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My backup drive is EVEN EASIER. It just sits there. And I walk in the house with the laptop, and it goes, oh, hey, you've been working. Here, let me grab all those files that have changed or are new for you. I will keep them safely here on my mini RAID arrayed self, two copies of them.
Typo Boy - May 27, 2011 11:08:03 am PDT #16813 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Question: what is a decent print to TIFF program for the PC. Normally when I ask this kind of question the problem is too few. This time google gives me thousands of hits, most which are actual print2Tiff programs. So of the many many choices I want to pick one that lets me choose resolution, is not buggy and is free of malware.
le nubian - May 27, 2011 11:52:26 am PDT #16814 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Typo Boy - May 28, 2011 12:37:12 pm PDT #16815 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
As soon as I stick a writable DVD drive it says it is a CD drive. Happens with an old DVD drive that works on other computers so I suspect it is the computer not the drive. Specifically since it is a netbook that has no native DVD I suspect there is a missing driver but google is so fucking spammed that a google search won't find the driver for me.
DCJensen - May 28, 2011 12:47:35 pm PDT #16816 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Is the external drive cobbled or a brand name?
Typo Boy - May 28, 2011 4:28:46 pm PDT #16817 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Asus which is not a good brand name. But it works on other computers.
And the documentation says there is no custom driver. It is specifically designed to run off the standard USB mass storage driver.
With no DVD in the drive it says that it is a DVD Ram drive. AS soon as a DVD is in the drive XP sees it as a CD drive.
DCJensen - May 28, 2011 6:29:16 pm PDT #16818 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I was just wondering if either the netbook or the drive manufacturer had some extra utils.
Yeah, I'm sure you checked, but I was hoping to have an "Oh! I heard that..." response, but hmmm...
Typo Boy - May 28, 2011 6:31:58 pm PDT #16819 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
They might but I have yet to get to any ASUS drivers. Keep ending up with sites trying to sell driver dective. Google has been search ended spammed to the point of useless for certain things. You just can't get anything but spam in the first 1000 results. Maybe I'll try bing or yahoo.