I solved my own "problem" of wanting to carry with me not only my entire digital library of documents, photos, music, etc., but the same boot volume as well. I have two Seagate 100GB 2.5" drives configured as a FireWire RAID yielding a single 200GB volume that is my boot volume and contains my (encrypted) home directory under Mac OSX 10.4. My motivation was to avoid carrying a laptop to/from work on my bike for 26 miles each day. I find the ability of Mac OSX to not only boot from an external FireWire RAID, but also having the same install boot on any contemporary Mac hardware (PowerBook at home, G5 tower at work) to be very convienent.
Note that the often-quoted problem with cable modems sharing bandwidth with neighbors is not so much because it is a "cable mode" (vs. DSL), but rather how the ISP divides things up. All of the neighborhood DSL lines still share the same pipe at some point. I've had a cable modem connection for nearly 5 years, through enormous local deployment growth, and still get over 3.2Mbps downloads routinely. If one's cable modem connection is degraded I'd blame the ISP first, and the technology second.
Regards,
Bill.
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I solved my own "problem" of wanting to carry with me not only my entire digital library of documents, photos, music, etc., but the same boot volume as well. I have two Seagate 100GB 2.5" drives configured as a FireWire RAID yielding a single 200GB volume that is my boot volume and contains my (encrypted) home directory under Mac OSX 10.4. My motivation was to avoid carrying a laptop to/from work on my bike for 26 miles each day. I find the ability of Mac OSX to not only boot from an external FireWire RAID, but also having the same install boot on any contemporary Mac hardware (PowerBook at home, G5 tower at work) to be very convienent.
Note that the often-quoted problem with cable modems sharing bandwidth with neighbors is not so much because it is a "cable mode" (vs. DSL), but rather how the ISP divides things up. All of the neighborhood DSL lines still share the same pipe at some point. I've had a cable modem connection for nearly 5 years, through enormous local deployment growth, and still get over 3.2Mbps downloads routinely. If one's cable modem connection is degraded I'd blame the ISP first, and the technology second. Regards, Bill.