Is it only a week since I mentioned that I’d signed up with Mozy? Well, apparently it is, which is as good a time as any to update the legions of Losing it[1] readers[1] on how it’s going. I decided to cancel that initial 100GB+ job on the grounds that
It would take an extremely long […]
Readers with long memories might recall me mentioning my first graphics tablet some time ago. I’ve made some use of it, and while it’s not something I use all the time, it’s not something I’d want to do without. And there lay the problem. At the time I bought it, it was (as these things […]
Now I’ve nicely sorted out my local backups, I decided to locate a tuit and sort out some kind of offsite backup. It’s all very well having a multi-generation backup on a separate physical disk (and it’s a solution I strongly recommend to anyone not backing up their files), but that wouldn’t help if all […]
After the fun I had with the last external hard drive I bought for the Mac Mini, I decided to get a different model rather than a replacement. While I could be persuaded that I’d just been unlucky and got a one-off dodgy drive with a tendency to sleep and never wake, I couldn’t really […]
Regular readers and stalkers[1] may be wondering why the infamous Lescam hasn’t been updated for a while. Well, it’s all to do with my Macification.[2] For the last *mumble* years, the Lescam, and indeed the Tiggercam ran using the quite excellent, if never updated Webcam32 software using a variety of USB cameras, mostly of the […]
One of the problems with having two computers on my desk is the tangle of cables involved. While I’ve managed to get the keyboards sorted out with a minimum of tangling, the meeces were a different matter altogether. I recently bought a basic but quite nice Microsoft mouse for the Windows box, but the addition […]
The fun bit of getting to grips with a new computer is working out where features live, how you do those routine tasks that have become pretty much automatic with your old system, and generally “getting it”. I’d done a fair bit of reading of magazines and websites before I got the Mac Mini, but […]
What’s this? Two screens on the Losing it[1] desk? And what’s that on the left? Could it be an Apple computer? Could it be a dinky little Mac Mini connected up to my older 17″ monitor? Well, yes. It could. Not only could it be, but it is!
Before anyone deluges me with either congratulations or […]
According to Bill Gates[1], IT skills are grossly underalued in business. BBC News reports that in a Microsoft survey, management types put computer skills in seventh place in their list of things that employees should be good at, well below such trivial matters as “teamwork”, “problem solving” and “flexibility”.
Now you might expect a notorious computer […]
Hard drives, that is. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the sad demise of my old external hard drive. Well, at the weekend, I finally got round to taking it apart to see how it worked, and if it could be salvaged. Interesting thing. inside the heavy metal case was a small circuit board […]
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