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Submission + - Best Backup Solution For OS X?

Submitted by SpartanVII on Thursday December 07, 2006 @11:59PM

SpartanVII writes: I purchased a Mac roughly two years ago and have made the switch with a fair amount of ease. However, one thing that has troubled me is how best to backup my important data to an external hard drive. Right now I have rigged up an Automator workflow that runs every night, but I have also seen software options like SuperDuper and Knox. Since the Automator workflow lacks much of the flexibility and features available with these apps, I am ready to try something else. What app have you come across that provides the best backup solution?

Journal Journal: Inside AMD's New Energy-Efficient Athlon 64

Journal by OSTG Marketing on Thursday December 07, 2006 @11:49PM

AMD's 65 nm Athlon 64 X2 processors are making headlines this week - and it's just the beginning. AMD has also started manufacturing new 65-nm chips for its Sempron line. In keeping with Moore's law, the chips continue to get smaller and more powerful . "The first PCs will ship this month, in time for the holidays. AMD expects to gradually move all its chip lines from the 90-nm to the 65-nm process in the first half

Submission + - Universal and MySpace Square Off Over DMCA

Submitted by

moore.dustin

on Monday December 04, 2006 @08:40PM

moore.dustin writes: "The two companies look to be a collision course that could have far reaching effects that shape of Internet over the years. Will Web 2.0 also have its important legal battles like the Napster case years ago?

From the article:
Yet, as lawyers prepare for battle, they do so on uncertain legal ground. The legislation at the heart of the debate, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, was written years before social networking sites such as MySpace even existed.

That fact has injected considerable uncertainty into the matter, according to copyright experts, and helps explain why lawyers from both sides are proclaiming that the DMCA, as it is known, is on their side."

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