Archive for the ‘mac’ Category

The importance of good mackup strategy

Posted at 1:50pm on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by

First up, I have to apologise for the mactard thing.  I just liked the word….  Many of my good friends are mac users and many of them politely laughed but I could hear them muttering “wanker” as they pretended to cough…  So – sorry about that.  You can call me a freetard in return if you’d like :)

Anyhoo.  One of the things I really like about Apple is the seamlessness of everything.  The Time Machine particularly impresses me as one of the myriad of must have devices that Apple make.  I know that Tom has been having some awful trouble with backing up his Mac (while trying to get his Time Machine working, natch).  I was therefore pretty disturbed to read Simon Brunning’s problems with his Time Machine.

Is the seamlessness a myth? Is my back up strategy of rsyncing to a remote machine the only real way to ensure no data loss (at home at least)? Or are the economics of home back up still too skewed for anyone with ‘real’ amounts of data (photos, video, music)?

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Hi. I’m a Marvel, and I’m a DC

Posted at 10:07pm on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 by

#2, #3 and #4.

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More Mac bashing…

Posted at 4:44pm on Monday, February 5th, 2007 by

In an apparently longer than planned series of “Andy slagging off all things Apple”, here’s another piece by someone far more eloquent than I (Charlie Brooker, who used to write TVGoHome, but stopped. Boo):

But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.

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