Author: david

Carina Round

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We went to see Annie Lennox when she played here in October and I was absolutely blown away by her opening act. Carina Round played a solo accoustic set that gave me shivers. It was one of those tightrope, on the edge, balls out performances that you just don’t forget.

You can hear her stuff here, on her myspace page, and a good minimalist performance video here (Check out Ready to Confess for a glimpse of what we saw live).

Unfortunately none of her albums are available on iTunes in Canada so I had to order actual CDs from Amazon (shudder).

SuperDuper! update

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Dave Nanian from Shirt Pocket Software blogs about the trials and tribulations of getting SuperDuper! updated for Leopard. The post includes some interesting details, for instance: The funky new directory hard links that Time Machine uses are available to other applications (I did not know that!)

  1. I’m glad they are taking this much care to get SD! right.
  2. I’m glad I don’t have anything that relies on the OS X internals to that degree.

Time Machine and a new motherboard

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It looks like its backup week here at rebelog headquarters…

Apparently TimeMachine uses the MAC (MAC as in “Media Access Control” not Mac as in “Macintosh”) address of your ethernet port to identify its backups. If you change your motherboard (like I just did with my MBP) then your MAC address changes and Time Machine will no longer associate your backup with your machine (because as far as TM is concerned it’s a new machine).

You can browse the backup, but if you wish to continue backing up, TM will tell you it cannot find the volume. Opening the TM preferences and pointing at the backup drive will fix that, but TM will create a new backup set from scratch.

Annoying.