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Cordless Drills and Screwdrivers

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hey I need one now that I’ve got a boat to mangle.
Some to look at are:
Panasonic EY6432GZKW $200 and the Ryobi P813 at $170 are really godo if expensive. The Makita BDF452HW $200 is only 3.5 pounds.
If you want to be really manly, then the Hitachi DS18DMR at $200 and 6 pounds is [...]

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Time Machine Slow Initial Backup

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. Macrumors.com has some advice about what to do:

Turn off Time Machine
If you aren’t using a Time [...]

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