New Apple Lust Objects

I can access all my files fine on my computer (so far, at least - knock wood)

this is the concern. weird file system problems can be subtler than a mother fucker. time machine is likely the only thing your computer does that involves touching every file on the system, so it could easily be the first way you find out about a problem that is nothing to do with tm per se. (note: i do not know if this is your problem, and maybe your tm archive is just hosed.)

internal drives + firewire caddies are ridiculously cheap and worth infinity $ when things go wrong. if your mac is, say, 200gb i would get 2x500gb drives. partition both drives into 200 + 300gb partitions. super duper clone to the first partition on each drive. time machine to the other partitions. keep the drives in separate locations, and either keep them both up to date or physically swap them once per month or week depending on paranoia.

also rsync to data center on the moon for 2012

ah, but this is my macbook pro, with a single 500gb drive - could invest in some 1.5TB or 2T externals but those would likely be bigger and bulkier than the usb-powered, slim external drives I use now... I live a transient life so I would like to keep bulk at a minimum.

maybe I should just wipe the fucker and do a clean install of SL. and buy some space on the moon xp

you can get caddies for 2.5" drives. the drives themselves are a little more than 3.5", but still way cheaper than 2.5" drives that are designed to be toted around backpacks on the regular. i think the biggest 2.5" drive you can get is still 1TB which is probably good enough. (but if you macbooks drive is ~full then maybe exclude some of yr v. big files from the time machine if possible, otherwise the tm archive will quickly fill up and then it loses its point.)

i have a slim but hopefully tough 500gb for time machining to when i am on the road for weeks and accidentally delete stuff which i do surprisingly often.

if you are not running SL yet then yeah, maybe now is as good a time as any. in principle this problem should be fixable w/o wiping though.

If you guys are not familiar, this piece of software was amazing when I was replacing my MBP hard drive with a larger one:

http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

xp, tbh though, even if you move countries regularly and try to keep it light (me too), i know every lb counts, but the difference between 3.5" + 3.5" caddy and 2.5" + 2.5" caddie is probably the least of yr packing problems and the $/GB saving is not insignificant.

sorry, i'm monologuing about backups now.

G5 sold. Now to buy the mini...

So Gruber's been linking to the reviews, none of which I've really read yet:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/baig
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/ihnatko
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/mossberg
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/31/pogue
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/01/fry

and a special MacBreak Weekly ("MacBreak Weekly 188: iPad Revealed")

http://twit.tv/mbw188

with video . . . here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty6Hjs0NpDs

reviews of the iPad, obv

geometry wars confirmed for ipad :O

oh boy

grid wars 2 would be awesome for the ipad

oh nm - gw2=geo wars

Netflix app and ABC player already out.

I noticed on the engadget review that w/tabbed browsing, like the iphone, the ipad doesn't save the status of each of your tabs but instead reloads each each time the tab is selected

I meant to say, that's a bit disappointing but understandable I guess

posted form my revolutionary new apple brand ipad tablet computer device

That Andy Ihnatko 'review' above makes Pogue look like an Apple hater.

Think my favourite part is in that video where he states that the eight hour charge time is a plus.

Won't get our iPad until Monday because I had it shipped to my work instead of home. Didn't realize the launch date was on a Saturday :???///

word on battery time is pretty amazing. Haters are like "no way can you get 10 hrs out of an IPS screen, 3 hours best" and all reviews are like, actually we watched 12 hours of movies straight.

andy ihnatko is a pretty funny guy. I think he must live under steve jobs's bed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5I5t_e1vOI

So it's a remote desktop client with an on-screen keyboard, or did they just put it on another tablet?

Played with the one my parents got today. Pretty awesome overall, would be perfect for someone who travels a lot but doesn't need a full laptop.

Not sure how well it would work for reading text for long periods of time or doing much writing/typing.

My mailroom at work called me and said I could pick it up. So we have one now! It's fantastic.

impressions!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/icade_main_zoom.jpg

i know that was a hoax, but I'd totally buy it. Especially if they could design it in a way that the joystick didn't block the screen.

adorable!

ice cram are you gonna order 25 of em if they start producing them

yah prob

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=K4GMAi-3QYg

ipad internet threads are the worst

anyway rumours apple announcing the uk date and pricing today

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/04/06/ipad.wifi.problems/index.html?hpt=T2

part of me wonders if these people ever used wifi before, while part of me just laughs at early-adopters

My coworker just brought his iPad over to my desk and I was wowed. It's so... nice.

Even as the iPad breaks all sales records, something deeply disturbing is happening at Foxconn, the China-based company that manufactures the gadget for Apple.

Yesterday, an 18-year-old female worker at Foxconn became the fourth person in as many weeks to attempt suicide by jumping from one of the factory buildings.

The girl, only known by her surname, Rao, had only been working at Foxconn’s Longhua plant for a month. Fortunately a tree broke her fall, but she was severely injured.

The iPad isn't a big iPod touch—an iPod touch is a miniature iPad that restricts the full multitouch experience in exchange for offering greater portability. With the iPad, in contrast, you get multitouch the way it was meant to be done.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/04/ipad-review.ars

no siracusa no cred

4 suicides per 300,000 people - is that higher than normal? same thing's happening at cornell too.

They all start out as iPod touches but a wave of male sex hormones during early development turns about half of them into iPads.

lol

http://www.macworld.com/article/150449/2010/04/liveupdate.html

do not want iAids

New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward