I’ve found lots of places to turn on TimeMachine backing up to a NAS (Network Storage Drive), but I couldn’t find any that told me how to restore after using the hack. Until Now! I haven’t tried these but the poster says they work:

If you are trying to do a full restore back onto your mac after the hd
failed, you use the Time Machine backup in concert with your Leopard
Install Disk.

1) Boot the Leopard Install Disk
2) Select Terminal from Utilities
3) ping your NAS box to make sure you have connectivity
4) Create a mount point for your NAS box, i.e “mkdir /Volumes/nas”
5) Mount your backup drive manually
For AFP, use “mount_afp afp://username:password@NAS_IP_ADDRESS/NAS_volume_name /Volumes/nas”
Presumably if you use Samba, you could mount with mount_smbfs instead. I use AFP and the above syntax worked.
6) Make sure the sparsebundle file mentioned above is in the root directory: “ls /Volumes/nas”
7) Exit terminal, “exit”
Select “Restore from Backup disk” from the Utilities (?) menu and you should see your backup listed

Credit: Mac Forums – View Single Post – Cannot see NAS from Time Machine

Johnny 5 is Alive – Short Circuit Being Remade! « FirstShowing.net

Wow, They are REALLY out of ideas now!

Man Caught Having Sex with a Picnic Table

WTF!

Sony’s “Fresh Start” getting a wide release soon? – Engadget

Yes this is good news I guess but the bigger new here is that it appears their own editors don’t read their own site (or perhaps the 100 other blogs that posted the news).  What’s the “news” you ask?  Well the fact that Sony has decided not to charge anyone for fresh start, yet in this very post the super smart Joshua Topolsky says “Sony’s recently introduced “Fresh Start” — the crapware-killing do-over it’s charging $50 for on VAIO TZ2000 setups — will be making its way to all of the company’s Windows devices very soon.” Even linking to the one post about the $50 fee.  Then he continues to complain about it, “It sounds like a lovefest, certainly, but wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to pay a premium for our systems to be free of mucky bloatware and storage-hogging garbage? You listening Sony?” . Yes, Josh Sony is listening, in fact, your very own site posted the news of them listening here. So in the future lets try and read our own site first. Engadget still hasn’t recovered from last years apple fiasco.

Update: LOL looks like they’ve deleted the post! hahahaha

-D

Tags: lol, engadget, stupid, read

Local News | Man scammed by Craigslist ad | Seattle Times Newspaper

Wow this sucks.  Interesting prank indeed, but still it really went to far.

-D

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?

Pretty interesting read..

-D

iPO Reports – Gartner: Second Round of 10M 3G iPhones Possible

So while this is an interesting report the key words in here are “This is in addition to the ten million first generation iPhones that Apple has said it will sell by the end of 2008.” So I don’t think we’ll be seeing the 3G iPhone until Apple meet the first 10 million goal.

-Dave

Tags: apple, iphone, 3g

A good read with links to a few peoples experiences with the Google interview process.  I wish we had catered lunch everyday. Damn Googlers!

-D