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It’s a good thing, I backup on a Drobo, Crashplan and also do occasional backups to a Time Capsule, but anyway now the Drobo is failing in continual reboot and Crashplan shows files on the web but not my local client so I can’t restore.  Another reminder that you can’t…

I have a DroboPro and it has been working like a champ, but we’ve had two power failures and I’m reminded I should put the whole computer and Drobo on a UPS so it can safely shutdown (yikes! but I already ordered one for the phone system, so if that…

Hilarious! See it now.

Just had a power failure, so the mind turns to UPS and backups for all those hubs and routers in the house. Nice to plug in your router and access point as well as any other mission critical things (like computers or home alarms) in. You don’t need an industrial…

To prepare for this Call the Cascade Locks and get a camping area. Find a site with water and electricity. These are a little more, but more convenient. The area that is the overflow for the regatta is not near the toilets and so forth. Want to be in the…

If you have an old iPhone 2G (like Asa and Grace), then you can unlock them even with the latest firmware. Redmond Pie has a guide, but with the old bootrom, you basically Find a custom IPSW that you just use iTunes to install which is nice since it can be…

You can now transfer miles for free between the two programs, so you get to monitor twice as many promotions. And you can link them so you get rewards on both… see thepointsguy.com. The biggest one is to get a free Continental card and then you get 25k miles for…

Or breaks as it is plastic, then you have to get your audio out from the 30-pin Iphone connector. Here are the parts you need: A iPhone connector to 3.5mm plug. I can’t find one that is female So you need a female-to-female connector for 3.5mm like Monocable has for…

These routers do support logging, but you have to mutter strange incantations to the Mac OS X (revealing its Unix roots), then point the Airport Extreme with the Airport Utility to the IP address of your machine…according to Mintel: Change syslogd configuration   # echo “local0.notice /var/log/airport.log” >> /etc/syslog.conf  …