Hey Apple, I live about 10 minutes from your headquarters. If I can't
figure this out and stop feeling like a complete moron by 11
tonight... you can expect a surprise visit in the morning. - Louis Gray via mail2ff
also the forums at www.screencastonline.com will always come to your rescue - fotographic
Louis I'm having a lot of trouble with Time Machine, too - in line with what Michael said, there are several known issues with TM but they just aren't a priority for Apple at the moment.... the discussion threads at Apple.com are buzzing with two or three consistent, known TM issues but no solves (other than going in and deleting backups and making it restart.) - Anthony Citrano
I've been using Retrospect since the late 80's when it was called DiskFit from Dantz Development. When it is setup properly and when it runs regularly, it will restore your HD perfectly to a new drive after a disk failure. I've seen this happen countless times. Retrospect is an expert tool for expert restoration. It just works. It's not easy to learn. Time Machine is beyond easy -- but let's see how it compares to Retrospect's record of successful restores in the next 20 years. - David Newman
I am having no problem with time machine, neener neener neener - anna
Neener neener yourself, anna. :-) So far, totally worthless. - Louis Gray
Louis, as soon as you can figure it out - set up is the worst part, you'll never have to touch it again. Mine just works like magic now that I have it set up. - Jesse Stay
OMG! You have caused a rip in space-time continuum! - Joni Moilanen
I dare you to take your time capsule on your bike and roll up to Infinity Drive. - anna
I've used Time Machine to restore my desktop twice: once using TM's automatic restore, and once manually. Saved my butt both times, though I'm seeing random errors from the drive that suggest I'll be reformatting it soon. Sorry you're having issues, Louis. If more people turned up in Apple's lobby with a box of hardware, maybe they'd pay more attention. ;-) - Chris Baskind
But Jesse the problem is that that's not true. I think that's Louis' point. Time Machine is plagued with issues. Thousands of users have set it up and found that it doesn't "just work like magic" at all. I am one of them, and as a fairly tech-savvy guy cannot get it working smoothly no matter what I do. Go over to Apple.com Discussions and see for yourself. - Anthony Citrano
Is there any chance that the prob is with your primary drive? i.e. the backup is failing because it can't copy corrupt data? Try a disk repair and permissions repair on your primary disk. Apologies if you have done this already. - Tom Raftery
I've been using the Time Capsule for about 6 months now. It's a piece of crap. You will not go one week without some problem occurring with the backups. Some tips: the name of the backup share and time capsule can't be more than like 20 or 30 characters: forget descriptive names. If you have a problem with it mounting, change the backup disk to none, then change it back to the backup share. If you like your sanity, don't bother with Time Capsule - Mark Trapp
@Tom, I'm repairing disk permissions right now. Before I go off on a rant, I'll try and see if this works. Hope so! Right now, Time Machine and Time Capsule are pretty useless. - Louis Gray
i gave up on "in home" backup and went to Mozy...so far so good. I don't care about my OS, as long as my media stay safe... - jeff
Sounds like maybe you got a dud? Exchange for a new one? - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Louis, repairing permissions may not be enough. If it is bad sectors on your primary drive, say, you will need to do a disk repair. Still, no harm trying the perms first and if that works, so much the better. - Tom Raftery via twhirl
Things like this suck since backup software shouldn't fail. - Daniel Schildt
Mark, is Time Capsule the problem, or Time machine? I've used Time Capsule to host media files for Sonos and as a general network drive. It seems to work fine. - Chris White
@nicerobot: Yeah, rsync is pretty good for backup, but I would prefer something with a GUI. Today, I actually found a GUI for rsync backups (http://code.google.com/p/flyba...). - possible248
Chris, it's the combination of both. Time Machine works great with a hard drive connected via Firewire or USB, and Time Capsule as a NAS is hard to screw up, but Time Machine accessing things over the network is an exercise in frustration. Time Machine sucks at reliably auto-mounting AFP shares and preserving permissions on those shares. Given how long it took for Apple to support hard drives attached to regular Airports, it's probably the AFP mounting part that's the root issue, but that more or less invalidates the utility and novelty of the Time Capsule. - Mark Trapp
one word...superduper!...that is all...over. - Bob Blunk
Boom! It just works! Everyone's suggestions sound like you're troubleshooting a PC... :p - Johan Lieu
you blame the software but do you ever think that maybe your hardrive is killed? i use time machine all the time no problems - orionstarr
Orion, it's highly possible there's an issue with the drive. I don't know that I made a distinction with the software. Something between Time Capsule and Time Machine is borked. - Louis Gray
It sounds very much like a broken drive. My time capsule was very easy to set up. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Now starting to work. I erased the disk and restarted the process (again), Fingers crossed - Louis Gray
uh, did this tool even read the mojaveexperiment.com? they used an hp pavilion dv 2000, which amazon sells for $949 -- hardly requiring anyone to "shell out thousands of dollars for a high-end machine". I don't think this guy quite has a handle on reality. - Alan Cheslow
I'm not the biggest Vista fan, but jeez, this guy is an idiot. If you want to criticize methodology, you should at least understand it. - steplow is Steve
someone tell Veronica it's just a viral monster. - Richard Walker
This is a preview of what happens to swimmers when offshore oil drilling begins. :) - Jody C
That's what happens when you genetically engineer corn a little too much. - Evan Sims
how cute, when can I get one at a pet store? - nick carrasco
reminds me of the critter from the tv show Surface. I think Nimrod was the name. - Alan Ashley
www.rubelsgonetoenquirer.com, Man! I had to hide this. It's giving me the creeps. - Vince Green
Saw Veronica's tweet this morning ... funny. I was hanging out on the beach in Montauk during the so-called 'conspiracy period'. Complete explains my current 'state of mind'. - Charlie Anzman
OH C'MON! It's a turtle without its shell! - Michael Forian
Sadly, that's totally a dog that had its front legs tied and left for dead in the ocean. Look closely. It's snout is just a bit deformed at this point in the decaying process. - Brian Ries
one of my favorite videos of all time. inch by inch. i've played it so many times that i have had to promise not to play it anymore though. ;-) - Jeff Sandquist
My friend and I had this part on replay for over an hour. Awesome speech. - Colby Olson
funny, it doesn't seem real, in the editing, the acting, pacino is good, but the direction, the emotion is stagey, no dirt on the uniforms ... hokey - Gregory Lent
@Gregory I see what you're saying. I'm there for the speech. Pacino buries the past failures and shines the light on the NOW. It can play to any team, regardless of the goal. It's all about the sublimation of the integral self for the progress of the whole. - Christopher Harley
Darnit, here I am at 2:30am in the morning, rewatching this... - Colby Olson
Aww, so timely, it's our 4th wedding anniversary today. This is the song we played at our reception when our flower girls & ring bearer were announced at their entrance to the reception. Thanks for posting a good memory for me :) - TheMacMommy via twhirl
I assumed that ".me" was not yet a domain base (there's a name for it), though it might have been assigned to a country. It could be if Apple wants to shell out money for it, sometime next year. In the meantime, Apple grabbed "me.com". Have I heard wrong? - Rick Wolff
Aaaah, Montenegro! In the former Yugoslavia. Apple will have to buy the whole country. And ".me" is its ccLTD. - Rick Wolff
LOL, wow, that just made my day. If only I was 2 ft tall, then all the toys would be mine! - Chris via twhirl
my first instinct would be to drop a quarter in and try my hand at the claw game to get her out! - Matt Musgrave
I have been laughing at that video all weekend. I love how the big sister tries to point out that the girl is in there and the mom doesn't believe him. Too good. - Sacca
She just went right in. She didn't even think about it. Too cute. - Lise
that's awesome. those are skills you can use at any age - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl
I'm suprised she didn't throw a bunch of toys down the chute before she came back out! Too funny!! :) - kbourke
I left a Disqus comment... your fear of mob rule is exactly why I don't prescribe to many of your ideas. Micro-Management is the wave of the future. We are interested in a Niche market and not the PC world of the Democratic Party. I vote for the people that benefit the local population, not outside of the borders. - Noah David Simon
well I think it's the only way to come to definitive results on certain debates... the term might be just a neologism, but it effectively communicates the concept of the "wisdom of crowds" in a single word. - Nathan Chase
there is little wisdom in the mob and the crowd. our founders knew this. it is why we don't have a direct democracy and rather an electorate representative vote. the whole idea of web 2.0 is to fragment the mob... I would say it failed. Obama is the end result. - Noah David Simon
The backformation of the word from 'outsourcing' (itself quite orwellian) sort of tips one off about the bias of the word towards those 'using' the crowds in question. IMO It's a pretty accurate term once you acknowledge the bias. - Madsimian
The original "wisdom of the crowd," anecdote I heard had to do with a group of people each guessing how many beans were in a jar. No individual's guess came as close as did the average of all the guesses. One of the keys to this experiment in my mind is the fact that there was no information shared between individuals making guesses. It's a sort of proof that collaboration can lead to better results than cavaliering. It's only when communication enters the picture, you start to get this mob mentality. That's why the concept of a representative democracy is important: "there is no greater tyranny than the tyranny of the majority." - Kurtiss Hare via twhirl
@Kurtiss - Hard to believe NO individual came as close as the average. Especially since the average (assuming this is defined as "arithmetic mean") is skewed by wild outliers. - James Joyner
@James: Yeah, it was an anecdote--no idea how truthful it is. - Kurtiss Hare
lol... that made no sense Kurtiss Hare and neither does accepting the UN's decisions over our own local administrations. I'm so glad Reagan wouldn't sign any treaty that would cater to internationalist tyranny - Noah David Simon
My RogersBlackberry is humming along fine too ;-) - AJ Batac
My updated iPhone (old school) is humming along just fine (I updated it yesterday and had no problems). - Jennifer Dittrich
Right...but its Rogers...and its Blackberry. See? - Kamath
hey steve if your phone is down, i can let you borrow my samsung ace - it works great, super fast speeds, and an awesome opera mobile browser :) - Allen Stern
Hang out for a while. It finally comes on. I was down for 3 hours trying to update this AM, though - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
I am a committed late adopter to expensive change... vote McCain - Noah David Simon
Wow. First time I've seen an item with triple digit likes. - Mark Krynsky
me thinks it will go higher by days end ,, as the problems continue , flickr exposure + friendfeed = TRAFFIC ( Viewed 2,049 times ) on flickr - fotographic
Jason - bad day to announce. You'll get lost in the iPhone launch - Dave Hodson
"Starting today all of my thoughts will be reserved for a new medium. Something smaller, something more intimate, and something very personal: an email list. ............I'm going to try and build a deeper relationship with fewer people--try to get back to my roots." Sounds more like you're trying to get back to 1994! You should add a fax newsletter subscription too! ;) - Adam Turetzky
Joke or serious comment? I find it hard to believe that will be able to stop unless the sale of Mahalo is true. - Andrew Forde via twhirl
"Today the email list has about 600 members, I'm going to cut it off when it reaches 750. Frankly, that's enough more than enough people to have a conversation with." - a nice problem to have, being forced to pare down your circle of friends to 750! Enjoy your "freedom". :) - Lindsay Donaghe
may i suggest western union- would be great for us all to return to telegrams. or: -... ..- .-.. .-.. .-.. -.. --- --. ... .-. --- -.-. -.- - Nice Fish Films
Jason, I enjoyed reading your blog and learned a lot about building mine by observing some of your design/etc. successes. Proud to be on your e-mail list, though! - Andy DeSoto
I am going to missing your writing. But you will probably come back to your pen for it's likely you'll miss your blog in time. So I guess this is just an au revoir! - Eric Sausse
too bad, man. i hope my subscription to your list goes through and i am one of the people that gets to carry on the conversation with you. - Adam Bullied via twhirl
Wow. The Henry Ford of blogging retires from the medium. Best of luck in your other endeavors! - Doug via twhirl
I'm really surprised, I think you blogging is a very important part of you and I dont think you'll be able to last long without it/ - Andrew Fielding via twhirl
that whole 1938 media technigga thing scaring ya off eh? - Dan Rockwell via twhirl
Will you be asking for an unconditional release from Mahalo tomorrow a la Favre? - William Reveal via twhirl
Blogging is so 2007. FF is the blogging of the future? I think, maybe, ... are you really going to retire? - Sean Simkins via twhirl
are you retiring so you can sign with another team? - Ryan Cates
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