When developing a Web Application, many times you need to test how will it react then operating over a slow internet connection, like 56k modem, GPRS or any other situation where the bandwidth is tight. This is important not only to test how long will those funky pictures take to load, but as AJAX gets […]
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Given that Retrospect 8 is essentially a piece of crap, I’ve been searching for an alternative I can use when Time Machine is not an option for backing up Macs. The main two points I’m focused on is reliability and speed. I want a backup system I can trust that won’t take the age of
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In my previous article, I presented Amanda, its basic concepts, and how does it compare to Time Machine. Now, I’ll give you an example of how to install and configure a Mac OS X machine to be an Amanda client. The next post will explain how to properly recover after a catastrophic failure. As with
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More than Lion, iLife or the new awesome MacBook Air, the one thing I liked best about today’s Apple event was that sentence, pronounced by Steve Jobs during the iLife presentation: “That’s why we do what we do”. Why? Today I left a meeting a few minutes after the beginning of the Back to my
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