| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 2007/11/12-16 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:48607 Activity:high | 11/12 Server nerds, CCC for mac is totally awesome. is there somethng
as cool and friendly for PC or unix?
\_ Hi. "CCC" is a free mac program known as "Carbon Copy Cloner".
If you use a Mac, and have some sort of external usb or firewire
drive, I recommend you spend 15 minutes downloading it and
setting it up. You can easily make a backup set up your data,
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| 2007/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:48432 Activity:low | 10/24 What's the best way to transfer files from PC<->Mac?
\_ Firewire or USB2 drive?
\_ scp/sftp
\_ Put 'em on the same network and open File Sharing on the Mac.
\_ insert usb memory stick
\_ 1/2" tape.
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| 2007/10/17-19 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:48352 Activity:nil | 10/17 There is this magical device that lets me connect a 2.5"
laptop drive to my computer's USB port. the IT dude at work
had it. What is it called? I wanna buy one. Thank you.
\_ hard drive enclosure? they have ones that connect with
firewire and SATA also
\_ Did he use fairy dust or just the standard wand? Fairy dust is
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| 2006/8/25-27 [Computer/Networking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:44148 Activity:nil | 8/25 I have a portable USB HD (2.5") that I built myself with WD HD
and an enclosure. On some systems it won't power on via the
USB cable, it'll try to spin up, but does not successfully
spin up. Could it be those machines do not provide enough
power via the usb output? On one machine that fails to power
up, I tried the fire-wire cable, it powered up fine. It also
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| 2006/7/19-22 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43729 Activity:nil | 7/19 Is there any way to use smartmontools (software) on a SMART capable
drive in a firewire external enclosure? If so, which enclosure would
you recommend? I would like to be able to remoteley monitor an
external hard drive.
\_ I don't think so, but I believe you can do so with a Serial ATA
drive+enclosure.
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| 2006/7/5-7 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:43573 Activity:nil | 7/5 Is there a good way in OS X Tiger to create a directory on an
external (firewire) disk that is owned by root? When I try to
do this, it becomes owned by "unknown"..
\_ goto get info, uncheck "ignore permissions on this volume"
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| 2006/3/20-22 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:42327 Activity:nil | 3/20 You know how you can boot a mac with the system install
cd and make it pretend to be an external firewire drive?
Is there a way to do this with a PC? Maybe there
is a cd I can boot the PC with to do this?
\_ You don't need a system install cd to do this. You just hold down
the `T' key while booting. -dans
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| 2006/1/15-17 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:41378 Activity:moderate | 1/15 I've got a mac G4 laptop and a dell box that I want to play kernel
hacker with, but I don't want to keep a bulky monitor around. Is
it possible to get a terminal connection from the dell box to the
laptop? The dell has USB, serial, PS/2, and VGA (no firewire).
Any suggestions appreciate, thanks.
\_ VNC over ethernet.
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| 2005/11/21-23 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:40671 Activity:nil | 11/21 Need recommendation for a small form factor network file server
to connect a PC laptop and a MAC laptop at home. About 500 gigs
to 1 T. I'm looking at the Maxtor Shared storage series and also at
the "Buffalo terastation". Can somebody recommend other brand names?
This is for home use, performance is not critical but it has to be
reasonably priced. General purpose PC is out of the question because
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