Any proper backup should include multiple distinct physical copies.
The Time Capsule makes it quite easy to plug an external USB drive into it and "clone" your backup image onto said drive.
So combining a Time Capsule and a of couple cheap external HDs into a multiple-rotating-offsite-backup-drives scheme is pretty easy.
One bonus is that your computer can be off/sleeping while the TC makes the clone - very handy if your main computer is a laptop which might not be present while the cloning is being done.
Well, the "consensus" appears to be quite wrong. It's not uncommon for there to be over 45,000 people logged on at the same time. Since not everyone is on all the time, I'm guessing the actual number of active residents is in the range of 150,000 to 500,000 depending on what factor you use to account for people being on anywhere from every day for 8 hours at a time to every other day or so for two hours at a time!
Now, I'll admit this is a far cry from the obviously inflated 4 million residents, but it's also much higher than your claim. (Yeah, I think LL is doing themselves no favors by claiming that bogus 4 million user number and wish they'd list a more reasonable "Number of unique users active within the last three days" or something.)
John Gruber's comments were pretty well though out. He was very careful not to claim knowledge of details he did not have (i.e. when he was speculating, he said he was speculating - unlike a lot of slashdot posters.)
John was presenting viewpoint, and doing it in a very clear fashion. While there are Mac fanatics that hurt the platform, John is not one of them.
Saying he is "to blame" is a bit extreme in my opinion.
Vaults actually take deleted master image files and place them into a "deleted" folder on the Vault's drive. I really like the Vault concept - it is simple and efficient, and matches the way the program is architected (i.e. your main library must fit onto a single volume). It's pure Apple philosophy, where the goal of the software is to let you do your thing (photography) and let the software manage the details. If you judge it based on what it is - a backup system - rather than what it is not (an offline archive scheme) it's pretty well done.
You can do != on keywords, you just have to do it via the ITPC keyword field. Clunky, yes. Impossible, no.
Bottom line: while it still needs some polish, it is quite useful in my opinion.
I had a Moxi box. After about a month of using it, and many discussions with the cable company reps (wow, there were some stupid conversations there!), I sent it back.
Anlog quality was *horrible*. HD did look wonderful, but our cable company does not have ABC in HD for some odd reason (the rep's responses were usually along the lines of "We don't? Well, I'm sure we will soon."). Discovery Channel etc also still analog. So, a few shows looked wonderful, and the majority were unwatchable. Flickering backgrounds, less resolution than TiVo and so on.
UI was really sad compared to TiVo. I'll check back with them in a few years, but until then my new Series2 Tivo will have to do.
This sounds like a dig at the perfectly legal use Mr. Ellison was making of his airplane when the city tried to violate federal law. Being obnoxious about something does not make a person wrong (and I can't argue that he handled that situation maturely, sigh).
Anything guys with that much money do to help stimulate any area of the economy are welcome in my book. Unless of course Larry decides to get the ball rolling on his hideous national ID idea by buying 100 million ID card blanks...
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Any proper backup should include multiple distinct physical copies.
The Time Capsule makes it quite easy to plug an external USB drive into it and "clone" your backup image onto said drive.
So combining a Time Capsule and a of couple cheap external HDs into a multiple-rotating-offsite-backup-drives scheme is pretty easy.
One bonus is that your computer can be off/sleeping while the TC makes the clone - very handy if your main computer is a laptop which might not be present while the cloning is being done.
The Apple Mighty Mouse is the best mouse I've ever used (and I've used an awful lot of mice).
The need to lift the "other" finger is real, but I honestly don't even notice it.
Well, the "consensus" appears to be quite wrong. It's not uncommon for there to be over 45,000 people logged on at the same time. Since not everyone is on all the time, I'm guessing the actual number of active residents is in the range of 150,000 to 500,000 depending on what factor you use to account for people being on anywhere from every day for 8 hours at a time to every other day or so for two hours at a time! Now, I'll admit this is a far cry from the obviously inflated 4 million residents, but it's also much higher than your claim. (Yeah, I think LL is doing themselves no favors by claiming that bogus 4 million user number and wish they'd list a more reasonable "Number of unique users active within the last three days" or something.)
John Gruber's comments were pretty well though out. He was very careful not to claim knowledge of details he did not have (i.e. when he was speculating, he said he was speculating - unlike a lot of slashdot posters.)
John was presenting viewpoint, and doing it in a very clear fashion. While there are Mac fanatics that hurt the platform, John is not one of them.
Saying he is "to blame" is a bit extreme in my opinion.
Don
A couple of minor corrections/additions:
Vaults actually take deleted master image files and place them into a "deleted" folder on the Vault's drive.
I really like the Vault concept - it is simple and efficient, and matches the way the program is architected (i.e. your main library must fit onto a single volume).
It's pure Apple philosophy, where the goal of the software is to let you do your thing (photography) and let the software manage the details.
If you judge it based on what it is - a backup system - rather than what it is not (an offline archive scheme) it's pretty well done.
You can do != on keywords, you just have to do it via the ITPC keyword field. Clunky, yes. Impossible, no.
Bottom line: while it still needs some polish, it is quite useful in my opinion.
I had a Moxi box. After about a month of using it, and many discussions with the cable company reps (wow, there were some stupid conversations there!), I sent it back.
Anlog quality was *horrible*. HD did look wonderful, but our cable company does not have ABC in HD for some odd reason (the rep's responses were usually along the lines of "We don't? Well, I'm sure we will soon."). Discovery Channel etc also still analog. So, a few shows looked wonderful, and the majority were unwatchable. Flickering backgrounds, less resolution than TiVo and so on.
UI was really sad compared to TiVo. I'll check back with them in a few years, but until then my new Series2 Tivo will have to do.
At least some of the technologies created thusfar do have features that verify that the item being presented is still, err.. attached.
Let's hope that little feature is not eliminated to "save costs"!
And what's wrong with that? :-)
This sounds like a dig at the perfectly legal use Mr. Ellison was making of his airplane when the city tried to violate federal law. Being obnoxious about something does not make a person wrong (and I can't argue that he handled that situation maturely, sigh).
Anything guys with that much money do to help stimulate any area of the economy are welcome in my book. Unless of course Larry decides to get the ball rolling on his hideous national ID idea by buying 100 million ID card blanks...