m2cw – my 2 cents worth

macs do well in a corporate environment

the results of my pulp fiction test:

You’re cautious, a bit paranoid. You left the scene for the suburban married life, but somehow, touble seems to follow you and piss on your mornings. You are quick to share your point of view, but have no problems with giving in to the requests of wives and wolves. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.

seems about right… 😉

A VC: What

VentureBlog: New Year’s Resolution: Meet Great Entrepreneurs

here is a story, why backing up your data makes A LOT OF SENSE:

not only did this entry remind me of it, but also the following episode: by mistake (stupid, stupid, stupid!), i deleted one of my mailboxes in the mail.app which resulted in the loss of all sent emails of the past year(s?), all in all 52mb.

now, why do i know how much (52mb) i lost, you will ask yourself? well, because i made a backup just prior to erasing it (well, actually two days ago) and i therefore was able to recover all of this loss without a problem! due to the nature of my setup, found here (don’t click, it’s not there yet!), i was even able to recover this within the hour!

thus my recommendation: backup, backup, backup! you don’t have to do it daily but every other day or at least once a week is the absolute minimum!

and it hasn’t been the first time, i’m glad i’m using a good backup system and setup!

as always john gruber gives an excellent opinion on Software Update Tips and Voodoo

his main steps and points:

1. wait at least one business day after the release of the update
2. run a full backup (if you don’t have an automated update process anyway)

personal note: when finished with the backup remove all external hard drives (if those are used for automated update processes you might want to keep them removed until your system is up and ok for a couple of days… – see step 6.)

3. log out. then log back in holding the “Shift” key
4. run the software update
5. restart
6. after working with your mac for a while without experiencing problems, run another full backup (or get your automated backup running again)

running Cocktail’s pilot (repair permissions, run cron scripts, prebind system and clean system, user and caches) is actually nothing but voodoo (it doesn’t really help, but it doesn’t really hurt either – in most cases)

excellent advice!

i have been doing most of this (including cocktail’s pilot step) anyway, but i have now a reference to go back to for every major update!

interesting piece of advice:Seth’s Blog: The top 1,000 things to know (the first entry has the first 20 things).

i will keep them in my mind when “teaching” jacob…

some useful knowledge about the mac from Tom Yager

the more i use an “all-in-one” pda-type mobile phone, the more i’m convinced: it just sucks! this article hits the nail on the head!

now it happened to our website as well: we have been officially “comment spammed”! yesterday evening some weirdo (probably some bot) left around 20 comments. nothing bad (weird quotes) but annoying! the links to the website didn’t even work!

why would anyone want to do that?

this is really stupid!