Home Page Tributes to Steve Jobs

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:11:00 -0600

I thought it was pretty cool big sites (and in some cases competitors) like Google.com and Amazon.com posted tributes to Steve Jobs on their home page. I looked around to see which other sites were doing this and have posted some screenshots after the break. If you know of others please let me know in the comments.

Apple tribute to Steve Jobs

Amazon tribute to Steve Jobs

Aaron Answers: Time Machine Backups Taking Forever

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:20:00 -0500

I received an e-mail this morning from Seth, who was having difficulty getting his initial Time Machine backup completed. Seth graciously agreed to having his question posted here in another edition of Aaron Answers. Below is his question and after the break is my response.

Hi Aaron,

I really appreciate your blog, and wonder if you’d be willing to answer a Time Machine question i’ve run into. My old backup HD failed, so I bought a new 2T Iomega eGo desktop HD. Partitioned it into 3 partitions, including a 1.1T partition for my time machine backup. All seems to be working fine, except that the backup is too slow to get done unless I leave the computer running for 3-4 days, which I can’t do as it’s a laptop and I use it all the time. After the first night (8 hours of so) it had only done 20 Gb (out of my 400 Gb). After the second night, it did about 120 Gb. i don’t know if I just need to find a 4-day window when I can leave my laptop backing up or if something is wrong with the software. I’m using the new USB2 cord, and it works nice and fast for manually backing up video files etc to other partitions in the drive. The drive seems to work quite fast. If you’re able to offer any advice, that would be greatly appreciated!

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Home Page Tributes to Steve Jobs

Aaron Answers: Time Machine Backups Taking Forever