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March 21st, 2008 at 2:52 am
You said you thought of Time Machine to be a security issue. Well, nice thing is that you can delete all backups of a file and/or folder through Time Machine very easily. You can also set Time Machine to not backup a specified folder too.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:27 am
Love the brief. However today the extra large h264 download on both the site and the rss is a wmv.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:28 am
to Neal and Cali; What is this “rainbow team” that you’ve been twittering about?
and yeah, as Sam said, the “Extra Large” link and rss point to a wmv
March 21st, 2008 at 7:31 am
Sorry about the Extra Large feed! Fixing now.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:40 am
hi Neil & Cali,
I notice the change of the ExtraLarge version to wmv… Personnally i don’t bother (ever if i prefer mp4 format) to have wmv file BUT look at the compression at 1:11min…
I don’t know if it’s a choice of PodShow to switch to wmv (since file is waaaay smaller 46 than 150 in mp4) but they could at least do the compression right.
Personnally, i jump from my sofa when i saw bad compression bug like this in my living room.
Keep on the good work, you guys are the perfect team !
regards
March 21st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Cali,
I use Vista (and XP) everyday for many hours. I did the SP1 upgrade to Vista and I don’t notice a difference either. Maybe that’s a good thing – like adding the rest of the missing lug nuts to your tires under the hub caps…
Mark
March 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Try copying a file across the network or USB and you’ll see the difference after SP1. They fixed bugs and did fix other “behind-the-scene” issues.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:33 pm
You may not see the purpose of time machine … but, it has one. Two years ago I had a hard drive fail in PowerBook G4. I lost 1 week of e-mail, photos, documents, etc…. Two months ago I had a hard drive fail in my 1 year old MacBook. I use it for work and when I got back to my desk from lunch nothing worked. I overnighted a new drive and was working with the new hard drive in by 11 AM the next day with NOTHING lost. NOTHING because it did a backup between the time I left for lunch and the time that the drive failed during lunch. Now, I realize that if the hard drive were to fail on the weekend I would lose more since the backup drive is at work; however, I wouldn’t lose anything more than when I left on friday.
So … Time Machine is awesome.
Leonard
March 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
SP1 is only 400+ megabytes if you download the standalone SP1 installer. If you download via Windows Update, it will be much smaller as you will have many of the patches SP1 provides as well as you will only download the language you need (as opposed to all the languages in SP1 standalone installer).
March 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Ok, so I noticed that the episodes are appearing as TV Shows on my iPod. This is VERY annoying. It clutters everything up and it messes up my sync options for new episodes of podcasts and tv shows.
Love the show though; keep up the good work.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I’d like to reemphasize what Leonard says about Time Machine. The point is to catch those files you deleted by accident, or have become corrupted somehow, or as Leonard points out the near worst case scenario (worst case for me is house blows up and no off site backup).
If you’re paranoid about security, as stated, you can exclude things. I’m not sure how well it works, as I use chronosync (I have very specific backup needs, time machine doesn’t work for me).
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hey Cali!
You said the N810 could stream image and video right to an LCD screen. What do you need for this to work and does it also work with plasma TV?
(I know it’s a stupid question…)
Keep up the good work!
Nick
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I’m a scuba instructor who teaches Enriched Air (higher than normal concentrations of O2 used for diving). I’m also a first air instructor who teaches Oxygen administration. I still don’t know what all the fuss is about O2 bars – when I and my students breath pure O2 (using a demand regulator we actually get 100% O2), we don’t notice anything “special”. Also, if you breath high concentrations of O2 for an extended period of time (many hours), you can have a toxic reaction. So, I would be extremely skeptical of the claims made by anyone pushing O2.
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 am
I’m only a medical student but as far as I know breathing more O2 is a terrible idea if you don’t need it and if not under supervision. Who knows how long will people breathe that thing thinking it helps their eyesight or appearance (from their Amazon page).
If they wanted to avoid any long term problems to their customers, then I’m almost certain that the effects are only placebo. But if the quantities of O2 that saturates blood are high enough to produce an actual system response than the effects, depending on the health status of the person, could be very negative. A reduction in hematocrit level and systemic vasodilatation are first that come to mind. But also production of many more O2 free radicals and that definitely does not keep you younger.
March 24th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I am using HSDPA on a daily base in Europe. If you pay more than €20 (€20) a month (includes 3GB) than you are paying too much.
I love the show. It’s a fun way to “discover with Cali” and I especially downloading it on he road via HSDPA :)
March 24th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I am using HSDPA on a daily base in Europe. If you pay more than €20 ($30) a month (includes 3GB) than you are paying too much.
I love the show. It’s a fun way to “discover with Cali” and I especially downloading it on he road via HSDPA :)
March 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I’m just catching up on some geekbriefs, so sorry for the delay in this comment.
As far as TimeMachine goes, there is another aspect that you should consider beyond recovery if your hard drive dies, or deleted files. TimeMachine backs up files every time they *change*, not just if they are deleted. This means you can use to it go back to older versions of your files, reverting changes if you want. You might think that might not be useful at first, but it doesn’t take too long to think of some times that might be useful.
You could use it as a simple “source code repository” for web sites created with iWeb or some other tool, so that you can go back to old versions look at or restore old content. Same thing as documents or spreadsheets you might use over a long period of time. (Resumes, home budgeting, etc..)
Also, a more advanced use could be to restore the state of any application data… kind of like Windows system restore – if you know what executable and data files an application uses (which is generally pretty easy on a mac, they are normally grouped together), you could go back after a bad patch, for example.
One more thing, Cali – you bring up a very valid point about a security risk for sensative files that you really do want deleted. As previous commenters mentioned, you can exclude a folder, but, you can *also* tell time machine to delete all versions of a file if it has already backed it up. It is one of the options in the “Gears” drop down when you are in time machine.