2 posts tagged “mac”

It's something we always kick ourselves after the fact. But when time is on our side, we never seem to do it.

At least, I don't.

So far, I've not crashed my computer (touch er, PLASTIC!)

Decided to do at least a half-yearly backup of my files to DVD. A backup of whatever that's on disk at that point in time.

A Digital Data Snapshot.

Half a year may seem like insufficient.

Probably is.

But it's a balance between spending money on storage (I have loads of DVDs, which I find relatively less expensive than buying secondary disks storage or USB drives... but maybe I'll change my mind later).

Anyway, mental note to self: Give myself at least 2 to 3 hours to do the backups.

'Cos it did take that long to archive the file, and burn to DVD.

What I did:

1. Selected the files to backup (normally in a folder)
2. Deleted redundant files and kept the rest (even if it's Work-in-progress)
3. Temporarily moved files I do not want to backup out of the folder
4. Created an archive copy of the folder (I'm using a Mac: see "Finder"). Repeat this for files I want to backup
5. Created a BURN folder. Moved the archived files to this folder.
6. Clicked on "burn" just to check what much storage space is required (I prefer to maximise my DVD since it's a -R, i.e. burn once only)

Ok, just did.

It worked.

Basically it's just a ZIP file.

1. Copy from DVD to harddisk
2. Double click on the ZIP file
3. OSX would automatically unarchive the files

Beautiful.

Macbook Pro

Argh... just six months after I crossed over to the Dark Side, Apple's Macbook Pro now comes in 2.16 GHz and 3GB RAM.

It's not just "Dual Core" but "Dual Core 2"!

Mine is 2GHz and upgradeable to max 2GB RAM. OK, so I wouldn't be able to tell the 0.16GHz difference in processing speed. And I'm not in any desperate need to upgrade my current 1GB RAM. Besides, if I'd waited I'd never have known how long.

Still, while my rationale side tries to placate my emotions, it's a Guy-Thing to want the meanest and baddest gadget around. Argh!