Wireless backups, finally!
Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives – Mac Rumors
At last!
I’m finally able to use my USB Lacie disk attached to my Airport Extreme Base Station with Time Machine.
Although the first backup is a tad slow (obviously it depends on how big is the backup), subsequent backups seems to work very well.
I have to eat my hat for what I wrote some posts ago about Apple not fulfilling advertised features…
Well done Apple.
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Put an Amiga on a CD…
No, I’m not talking about a software emulator like WinUAE or Cloanto’s AmigaForever…
At the beginning of February ACube Systems released the MiniMig, a small (12×12 cm) board that try to reproduce the mighty Amiga500. This is achieved thanks to the use of a Spartan FPGA and an onboard 68000 processor from Freescale.
The original idea and project came from Dennis van Weeren who kindly put his work under an opensource (openhardware?) licence.
ACube Systems then assembled all the pieces together, packaged them in a nice box with a brief user guide and started distributing the board.
You can see a review of the Minimig here.
There is also a page on Wikipedia about the Minimig.
(BTW, 12×12 cm is approx. the size of a CD-ROM, hence the title of this topic)
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Tags: ACube Systems, Cloanto, Dennis van Weeren, Minimig, wikipedia, WinUAE
Leopard Update
Yesterday Apple released update 10.5.2 and other updated components for Leopard.
The update is huge, more than 341MB of download.
With this update Apple fixes a big number of bug and introduces some new features. Mail, Finder, Spaces, Time Machine, Airport… the list is very long, you can read the full description here.
The update process went on smoothly, my MacBookPro rebooted a couple of times and then all was finished. I can notice a speed improvement on the overall system responsiveness and many of the bugs of Leopard are gone (or so it seems).
All good then?
No, unfortunately not.
I was waiting for an update that would enable the use of my external Lacie 500MB disk connected to the Airport Extreme Base Station to be used together with Time Machine. Before the update, fiddling on the terminal, I was able to use the external HD with time machine but the speed was awful sloooow… Now, after the update there is no way to use the HD… every time I start the backup process I get an error telling me that an error creating the disk image occurred.
I begin to suspect that uncle Steve is forcing us to buy its new toy… Time Capsule… but I’m a bit disappointed about that.
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Tags: Airport, External Disk, Leopard, Time Machine, Update
AROS meet Sam
Dr. Michal Schulz published on his blog the first screenshots of the Open Source reimplementation of SLB. This is the first step for booting AROS on Sam440ep.
Michal picked up the Bounty for porting AROS on ACube Systems‘ Sam440ep platform. Judging by the continuos progress report we can read on his blog it seems that Michal is very skilled and that a working AROS port will be ready very soon.
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Tags: ACube Systems, AROS, Michal Schulz, Sam440ep
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