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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: ACube Systems, Cloanto, Dennis van Weeren, Minimig, wikipedia, WinUAE
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 [...]
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Tags: ACube Systems, AROS, Michal Schulz, Sam440ep
My little MacBook Pro review
As promised, this is my little review of my new MacBook Pro.
This is a CTO MacBook Pro: Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz, 200 GB 7200 RPM Hard Disk, 15.4 Widescreen display.
It took approximately 3 weeks to arrive at the Apple center were I bought it. It’s a very long time but it was ordered [...]
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Tags: Leopard, MacBook Pro

