So I’ve been out of town for a bit, in Northern Wisconsin with family. And while I was there, I ran into a fellow named Cliff Lisp, a naturalist filming an episode of the show “Balance of Nature.” The guy thought he discovered a tribe of juvenile blueberry eaters…
Metro’s escalator repairmen had the entire handrail snaking across the floor.
Turns out Time Machine is not just for accidentally deleted files — it works great for restoring a Mac from bare metal, too. Even over the network.
James Duncan Davidson’s instructions for using the OSX Leopard install DVD to boot and restore from a Time Machine backup work great if you back up to a USB or FireWire drive.
But I use Time Machine over the network, so my backup set wasn’t available. Nedospasov had the secret for mounting the network backup share first.
Here’s the whole process…
Our office is going Web 2.0. We are all using a bunch of commercial web services out there, and we’ll be adding users to our internal ones soon.
Logins are a problem, of course. So is identity. We want folks to use their workplace name, email addresses, etc — they are representing the office in using these services. And it would be great if we didn’t have to remember 37 different passwords?
And it wouldn’t it be even better that, once someone leaves, we could turn off all of those identities — so that folks ex-employees can’t misrepresent themselves?
All of this can be done with OpenID.
Here’s how to persuade your CIO to implement it.
The folks at JungleDisk released version 2.0 Monday. This is a major — and welcome — upgrade.
Of course the Linux command line tools are still there for all of you rsync fans.
We’ll be updating our command-line configurations in the coming days. In the meantime, you can download the update from JungleDisk. It’s free for registered users.
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