Monthly Archives: April 2007

Mozy Mac Beta Software Update

April 23, 2007 – 8:21 pm

Mozy has released an update to their Mac client software which is still an early beta. The version gets bumped from 0.4.0.8 to 0.4.0.9.
I’ve been having a problem with the software lately where files vanish from the server. Although it appears they actually get removed by the client since I see delete messages in the [...]

Popularity: 16% [?]

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Ubuntu 7.04 First Look

April 22, 2007 – 9:43 pm

It’s finally time to take the new Ubuntu release out for a spin. As background - it’s been about 2 years since I’ve run any version of Linux except for a brief attempt to run Ubuntu 6 on my laptop. That doesn’t count since I spent all my time trying to get wireless working and [...]

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Windows Vista on Parallels

April 22, 2007 – 1:46 pm

After my (eventually) successful Ubuntu install on Parallels I decided to try and continue my streak and install Vista. I had licenses for Ultimate and Business. Parallels doesn’t support the 3D Graphics needed for the Aero interface and Bitlocker disk encryption isn’t supported in a virtual environment so I won’t be able to see these [...]

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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) On Parallels

April 21, 2007 – 2:01 am

I had downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) last night in preparation for installing it tonight. I figured I’d get home and knock out the installation in short order. So I got home put on a pot of coffee and got to it. The good news is that by the second pot of coffee the install [...]

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Azureus Bit Torrent Client for the Mac

April 20, 2007 – 8:19 pm

Ubuntu 7.04 was released and I decided to download it so I could install it under Parallels over the weekend. I didn’t have a BitTorrent client on this Mac, not needing one since I got the Mac at the beginning of the year. While I could download the ISO I figured the Ubuntu servers might [...]

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Mac Mozy: Files Gone - They’ll Be Back [Updated]

April 20, 2007 – 3:05 pm

See an update at the end of this post.
I ran into another hiccup with the Mac Mozy client today. I had about 1.1GB from my iMac backed up to Mozy but after doing a manual backup today that was down to 175MB. In checking the server there were a bunch of files missing from the [...]

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