Archive for March, 2008
Wireless backups, finally!
by admin on Mar.31, 2008, under Computers, MacOSX, Technology
Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives – Mac Rumors
At last!
I’m finally able to use my USB Lacie disk attached to my Airport Extreme Base Station with Time Machine.
Although the first backup is a tad slow (obviously it depends on how big is the backup), subsequent backups seems to work very well.
I have to eat my hat for what I wrote some posts ago about Apple not fulfilling advertised features…
Well done Apple.
Put an Amiga on a CD…
by admin on Mar.03, 2008, under AmigaOS, Computers, Technology
No, I’m not talking about a software emulator like WinUAE or Cloanto’s AmigaForever…
At the beginning of February ACube Systems released the MiniMig, a small (12×12 cm) board that try to reproduce the mighty Amiga500. This is achieved thanks to the use of a Spartan FPGA and an onboard 68000 processor from Freescale.
The original idea and project came from Dennis van Weeren who kindly put his work under an opensource (openhardware?) licence.
ACube Systems then assembled all the pieces together, packaged them in a nice box with a brief user guide and started distributing the board.
You can see a review of the Minimig here.
There is also a page on Wikipedia about the Minimig.
(BTW, 12×12 cm is approx. the size of a CD-ROM, hence the title of this topic)
