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crashplan is having a sale until tuesday, after that their regular prices will go up. http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl

i chose crashplan over mozy, after reading some bad mozy reviews (http://wonko.com/post/it_turns_out_mozy_isnt_so_hot_after_al... for instance) . I have the family plan and uploaded 200gb so far, their upload speeds are pretty good.

The only feature I'm still waiting for, is so you can specify different backup sets to archive to your local HD and to their online sevice, but that feature should be realeased with their next update. Other than that I love crashplan, especially the eature that you cannot disable it for longer than 24 hours.

You can also seed your initial backup, that way you don't have long upload times.

i use filevault on osx. just remember that timemachine & filevault don't play along well. you will have to log out of your account to backup your home directory, defeating the whole timemachine purpose. i'd recommend crashplan.com in this case.

late 2007 mbp?

If i didn't have the three year warranty i could have thrown mine away:

1. the NVIDIA chip died > screen goes black: known issuse: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

basically if you have one of those macbooks, it will most likely die sooner or later, if it dies within the first three years you're lucky.

2. the trackpad stops working > known issue: the topcase needs to be replaced.

3. cd drive stopped working... well.

bad quality basically. but i would probably buy one again, because there are no slim pc-notebooks.

yeah i saw that, but still. how much is my minimum share? i scanned their site and couldn't find any hardware info, perhaps i'm missing it - maybe it's not really that important since i get to use more than the minimum if the CPU isn't maxed out.

i bet you can find some small idea somewhere and create your own project, it will be a lot more fun and that way you'll learn easier too.

the best time saver if you don't have a dishwasher: use throw away cutlery & plates. saved me a lot of time.

people that don't hate doing chores, simply look at them like a game. It does make them feel good, to have everything under control, a clean house, all bills paid...and i think you can train yourself that you will also feel that way and you will want to have everything neatly done. It's like going to the gym, if you go for a while, you will miss it when you stop going.

But i don't want to train myself to give annoying, boring things a meaning.

i guess it all changes when you have kids, then you have to do that stuff.