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Time Capsule running hot

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve noticed that Time Capsules can really run hot. I haven’t figured it out, but it looks like something keeps accessing them. Speculation is that if you have the Time Capsule drives mounted on a Mac, then the hard disk stays spinning.
I’ve had mine stacked and that seems to be bad too. You want them [...]

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Terabyte Backup Drives

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be shopping for four terabyte drives just for backups. Amazing how things have changed. Even more amazing is that it is so easy to fill a terabyte server these days with music, videos and home movies. In any case, if you need a backup for these, [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-26

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

omg, overlake christian church is massive, they bus people in parking lot. Here for state chess tournament. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations it says in the huge amphitheater #
Tres hermanos in Kirkland is a good mexican restaurant. Nice chorizo burritos #
Home late. Norton Ghost 12 doesn’t like Time Capsules and will [...]

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Linksys WRT54GL to Apple Time Capsule Conversion

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Utility

Now that the Time Capsules have come in, we’ve upgraded our office to use this incredible Wifi+Router+1TB File Server+Backup Server and now I’m working on fixing all networks. Main issue is that I’ve got way too many static IP address devices, so here’s a list and how to get away from static IP addresses to [...]

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