Comments on: Thoughts on a Tuesday http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/ Deas Richardson is currently living as a JET and teaching English in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, a gorgeous part of Japan. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2956 Deas Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:04:38 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2956 Ha ha ha - why on earth would I back up my data on the same drive?? I saw the Time Capsule when I followed a link from the ultrathin <a href="http://www.apple.com/macbookair/" rel="nofollow">Apple Macbook Air</a> page. Firewire would be nice. I guess I'll start snooping around the market. I'd love a network drive too, though...hmmm. Ha ha ha – why on earth would I back up my data on the same drive?? I saw the Time Capsule when I followed a link from the ultrathin Apple Macbook Air page. Firewire would be nice. I guess I’ll start snooping around the market. I’d love a network drive too, though…hmmm.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2954 Aaron Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:33:44 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2954 I use Time Machine with an external Firewire drive. It works well enough, except that obviously it only makes backups when the drive is attached and turned on. My main machine is a laptop, so that's not all that often. I'm intrigued by the <a href="http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/" rel="nofollow">Time Capsule</a>, which would solve this problem. It's pretty pointless to use Time Machine on a partition of the same drive you're backing up. I'd definitely recommend getting some external storage. <em>Aaron's last blog post: </em><a href='http://www.amake.us/archives/2006/07/#e2006-07-01T10_36_22.txt' rel="nofollow">Block E is dead to me</a> I use Time Machine with an external Firewire drive. It works well enough, except that obviously it only makes backups when the drive is attached and turned on. My main machine is a laptop, so that’s not all that often. I’m intrigued by the Time Capsule, which would solve this problem.

It’s pretty pointless to use Time Machine on a partition of the same drive you’re backing up. I’d definitely recommend getting some external storage.

Aaron’s last blog post: Block E is dead to me

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2945 Deas Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:34:35 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2945 Alex - I have no idea man. But I think it's contagious. I think Japan's weather must have caught it's wacked-outness from Korea's. Should have worn a better quality paper mask. (It's funny to see people use Fahrenheit on this side of the world, by the way.) ;-) Alex – I have no idea man. But I think it’s contagious. I think Japan’s weather must have caught it’s wacked-outness from Korea’s. Should have worn a better quality paper mask. (It’s funny to see people use Fahrenheit on this side of the world, by the way.) ;-)

]]> By: Alex http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2944 Alex Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:27:26 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2944 It snowed here for New Year's, and then it was like an unseasonal 65 degrees here for a week and then BAM! The town is filled with snow again! What's with that? <em>Alex's last blog post: </em><a href='http://victorymanual.com/2008/01/13/sharing-the-wealth/' rel="nofollow">Sharing the wealth</a> It snowed here for New Year’s, and then it was like an unseasonal 65 degrees here for a week and then BAM! The town is filled with snow again! What’s with that?

Alex’s last blog post: Sharing the wealth

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2943 Deas Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:22:41 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2943 Aaron - thanks for the advice about OS X Leopard. I think I'll do as you've suggested. Have you any experience with the Time Machine feature, and do you recommend purchasing an external hard drive to use with it? Just wondering about that. I'll likely not use it until I have a dedicated disk for it...but I generally don't accidentally delete anything. Clay - Funny, I quit FF3 on the DS because it was hard as nails, too! Ha ha. That is funny. We have been taken in by similar tragically bad games lately. I'm in the middle of The Phantom Hourglass flavor of the windwaker-style animated Legend of Zelda on the DS. Fun, but it's not the Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess. :-) Aaron – thanks for the advice about OS X Leopard. I think I’ll do as you’ve suggested. Have you any experience with the Time Machine feature, and do you recommend purchasing an external hard drive to use with it? Just wondering about that. I’ll likely not use it until I have a dedicated disk for it…but I generally don’t accidentally delete anything.

Clay – Funny, I quit FF3 on the DS because it was hard as nails, too! Ha ha. That is funny. We have been taken in by similar tragically bad games lately. I’m in the middle of The Phantom Hourglass flavor of the windwaker-style animated Legend of Zelda on the DS. Fun, but it’s not the Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess. :-)

]]> By: claytonian http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2940 claytonian Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:09:01 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2940 Ha ha I quit around the time it was making me look for fruit. I also quit ff3 ds after fighting the boss and dying a few times. Too old for bad games. <em>claytonian's last blog post: </em><a href='http://surrealu.blogspot.com/2008/01/tokyo.html' rel="nofollow">Tokyo...</a> Ha ha I quit around the time it was making me look for fruit. I also quit ff3 ds after fighting the boss and dying a few times. Too old for bad games.

claytonian’s last blog post: Tokyo…

]]> By: Aaron http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2939 Aaron Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:56:24 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2939 You don't need to do a clean install. Just do an Archive & Install, which will move the old system files out of the way and put the new ones in place, leaving your personal data untouched. Also, BootCamp will not be affected by any of this at all, as BootCamp is just the utility that lets you live-partition your drive and burn a disc of Windows drivers. Once you have a working Windows install, you no longer need to care whether BootCamp is the expired public beta or not. And partitioning your internal hard drive is generally not necessary or advised on OS X. <em>Aaron's last blog post: </em><a href='http://www.amake.us/archives/2006/07/#e2006-07-01T10_36_22.txt' rel="nofollow">Block E is dead to me</a> You don’t need to do a clean install. Just do an Archive & Install, which will move the old system files out of the way and put the new ones in place, leaving your personal data untouched. Also, BootCamp will not be affected by any of this at all, as BootCamp is just the utility that lets you live-partition your drive and burn a disc of Windows drivers. Once you have a working Windows install, you no longer need to care whether BootCamp is the expired public beta or not.

And partitioning your internal hard drive is generally not necessary or advised on OS X.

Aaron’s last blog post: Block E is dead to me

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2938 Deas Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:45:32 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2938 Clay - I've done it before, as well, actually. It's just digging up the IP addresses of Yahoo BB's DNS servers and manually routing the Wii through the gateway here that is annoying. The DS is probably pretty similar. Once I get one up and running again it should go fairly quickly for the other. Also - MAN are you right about Paper Mario. I bought it and hated it from day one. And I continued to play until I realized how much I hated it. You shouldn't want a video game to end. You know? I quit it. Trade it in and get whatever minimal amount the offer. Use it to knock the tax off of Galaxy. It is worth it. Loads of juvenile, goomba-stomping fun. And the gravity puzzles rock. Clay – I’ve done it before, as well, actually. It’s just digging up the IP addresses of Yahoo BB’s DNS servers and manually routing the Wii through the gateway here that is annoying. The DS is probably pretty similar. Once I get one up and running again it should go fairly quickly for the other.

Also – MAN are you right about Paper Mario. I bought it and hated it from day one. And I continued to play until I realized how much I hated it. You shouldn’t want a video game to end. You know? I quit it. Trade it in and get whatever minimal amount the offer. Use it to knock the tax off of Galaxy. It is worth it. Loads of juvenile, goomba-stomping fun. And the gravity puzzles rock.

]]> By: claytonian http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/comment-page-1/#comment-2937 claytonian Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:49:17 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/01/15/327/#comment-2937 I guess I will break down and get Mario then. I really need to sell paper mario though; what a dud that was. As for the mac-wii thing: In my archives somewhere you can find a link on how to do it. However, I've never gotten the DS to do anything internet at home <em>claytonian's last blog post: </em><a href='http://surrealu.blogspot.com/2008/01/tokyo.html' rel="nofollow">Tokyo...</a> I guess I will break down and get Mario then. I really need to sell paper mario though; what a dud that was.

As for the mac-wii thing: In my archives somewhere you can find a link on how to do it. However, I’ve never gotten the DS to do anything internet at home

claytonian’s last blog post: Tokyo…

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