August 12th 2008
OK, I switched to Mac e-mail last summer on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger, or some other pussy cat). I tolerated the bumbling of the e-mail software since I knew version 10.5 would be out soon, and no doubt they’d fix the lame bits of the software by then.
But I was disappointed. Mail is just as lame in 10.5 as it was in 10.4. Continue Reading »
July 15th 2008
A site called “Live Science” has posted a “Top 10 Revolutionary Computers.” This was obviously written by someone who doesn’t know a lot about what makes a computer significant, beyond advertising.
The TRS-80 (aka the Trash 80)? The latest IBM parallel monster? Give me a break. These were all reruns of well-understood concepts. Nothing new. They listed the Alto, so why list the Macintosh?
May 15th 2008
I’m trying to upgrade to Leopard (or is it Blotched Tabby? I can never keep their kitty cats straight) a.k.a. OS-X 10.5.
When I first got my Mac Pro, I looked at the lovely array of hard drive bays and said, “RAID!”
So I decided to RAID my system drives. Now I’m trying to un-RAID them and use Time Machine, and OS-X is being a pain about it. Actually, the RAID system has been a pain all along (I wrote a bit about this before). Continue Reading »
January 11th 2008
This is the first of two postings that talk about using RAID with Mac OS X. The second post talks specifically about OS X. This post talks about RAID and how I use it.
Thanks to RAID, I’ve developed a fairly reliable way to store lots of data with minimal risk of losing it all. The RAID mechanism itself deals with the risk of hard drive crashes. I also keep a spare hard drive away from home to reduce the risk of losing everything. Continue Reading »