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iTunes 8

In tech on 25 August 2008 tagged itunes, mac, server with Comments Off

My predictions (wishlist?) for iTunes 8:
Given multiple computers in households, additional devices such as AppleTV and iPhone, etc., iTunes needs to either move to or have an optional capability to run as a server. I want an iTunes Library to act as one central repository for all my media. It should be able to have [...]

Stuff of Late

In family, tech on 16 March 2006 tagged cooper, erin, fletcher, health, mac with Comments Off

OK, so a bit too much time without updating.
Erin and Cooper had birthdays. Cooper is now 3 and had a big party at JW Tumbles which is like a kids gym. It was a hit, lots of his friends were there (pics are up on adventures) and everybody slept well that night.
Fletcher got tubes in [...]

Over One Terabyte

In tech on 6 October 2005 tagged mac, pc, storage with Comments Off

Holy, um, crap. Yeah, so I just got the backup drive set up, and decided to count through the storage at my house. Here’s the breakdown (only drives over 10 GB counted)
Mac Desktop (80 GB Main and 160 GB iLife and Games) 240 GB
PC Desktop 30 GB
Mac Laptop 40 GB
PC HTPC 40 GB
FreeBSD Dev Server [...]

Final piece of the Backup Puzzle

In tech on 6 October 2005 tagged backup, mac with Comments Off

Just got the 320 GB WD drive in (the largest single drive I’ve owned), and hooked it up. Right now, here’s what’s being backed up to it:
Desktop home folder daily
Server home folder daily
Sites folder daily
iTunes and iPhoto libraries weekly
Quicken files weekly
Misc file server files monthly

More Home Network Overload

In tech on 14 April 2005 tagged mac, network, pc with 1 comment

OK, so the new plan:
Cardhu the Mac mini as the web server, maybe running off an external firewire drive (probably the 160 GB) for size plus longevity (?).
Oban the 1 Ghz Athlon with FreeBSD 5.X as fileserver with 2 200 GB drives in software RAID-0 (gvinum).
Springbank the old fileserver goes away/becomes new testbed.
Knockando the 867 [...]