ISPs: I pay you to put a cable in my house, and let me send things up and down it; no more.
September 25, 2011
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External hard drive manufacturers. I still have no idea what the software that came with my back up drives does.
Oh, don’t even get me started on the one I bought where someone worked extra hard to write software that specifically prevented you from backing up anything other than file types they decided were important – pictures, music, docs. No email, nothing from the system… No “here’s the easy stuff, and here’s the ‘advanced’ button if you dare”…
Hardware Engineers. Ooops! Did I say that in public?
my new apple laptop, and its time machine backup/wifi support system…just worked…just saying