Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
I'll try not to be too nostalgic here, but I can't help mentioning that my first PC, a 12-MHz 286 I bought in college, was equipped with a spacious 32-MB hard drive. I could fill that drive today with just a few photos from my Canon G9. In contrast, the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Earlier in the month I posted about the strategy I've been employing to back up my 24" home computer. Using SuperDuper! and a 500-GB external drive attached to my Airport Extreme works great, but it doesn't really solve the my-house-burned-down-and-now-I-lost-all-of-the-embarrassing-pictures-of-my-kids problem. To address that glaring deficiency I needed a way ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
We got our first family computer last fall, a 24" Apple iMac. It had been running like a champ until a strange hardware problem popped up a few weeks ago. It didn't boot properly a few times, and when I investigated further I found that the system was reporting that ...
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