OSX Time Machine – Brilliant or Bust?

Aren’t backups a wonderful thing? As an IT professional, I can tell you that most people never backup their computers. Organizations are a bit different. Most recognize the need for backing up, but fewer actually test their backups. In OSX Leopard, Apple recognized that people don’t backup their computers. Further, they recognized that, increasingly, our … Read more

Another MacBook problem

Here’s one thing I hate: Starting blog posts with the sentence, “I love my MacBook, but…” Sadly, this is another of those posts. My MacBook is a early serial number, first revision MacBook. It’s only a Core Duo and it doesn’t have 802.11n wireless, but it’s been a good computer – when it’s working. It’s … Read more

Mac Mini – Cable Maxi

I mentioned that I got my new Mac Mini to replace my antique G4, but what I failed to mention was that I still had an older Cinema Display that’s still gorgeous (if not wide screen aspect) but it uses the older, proprietary ADC connection – which not only supplied power to the monitor, but … Read more