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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-31

Posted at May 31, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Working in Avon. #
• Completely uninstalling the Adobe products and trying out PDFpen and Pixelmator as light weight alternatives #
• Car shopping with Jena and Mike - Jena wants a silver Jeep Liberty LE #
• C&C #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-29

Posted at May 29, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Top secret internal memo from the boss: “Feel free to do it over beers. I will even buy them.” <3 #
• Updated my post about using RoadRunner dial-access on OS X Leopard. Check it out: http://is.gd/nF8 #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-28

Posted at May 28, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Crossing my fingers that Time Machine works #
• Conclusion: Time Machine works. Lesson: Learned. #
• @mmcmahill Grats! Where are you going to be working? #

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My Experience With Time Machine

Posted at 3:56 pm | In Software | By Ben Woodruff

Tags: Apple/Mac, Research, Software, Technology

Last night I ended up having to do a full restore of my MacBook Pro using Time Machine. I was trying to uninstall libusb, SANE, and some other utilities that do not have proper uninstallers. I wrote a shell script that got a list of all the files added by the installer (using the lsbom command line utility) and deleted them. Unfortunately it somehow also deleted my entire /Applications folder, and who knows what else. My bad.

Luckily for me, Time Machine had just finished a backup before I started. I didn’t have much confidence / hope that it would do a good job of doing the restore, but it did much better than I expected.

I booted from the OS X Leopard install DVD and chose Restore System from Time Machine Backup from the Utilities menu. It found my My Book hard drive that is attached to my AirPort Extreme (and has my Time Machine backup on it). Logging into the drive and starting the restore was very easy and straight forward.

The restore took about 3 - 4 hours (over 100Mb ethernet). Everything looked good when I started the laptop. I logged in as usual and everything seemed to be OK. I only ran into a couple of issues. (more…)

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-27

Posted at May 27, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Back from Mike’s… I really wish I had a steady place to stay in Rochester. Getting up at 7AM to get to work because of drive times sucks. #
• Bored at work #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-26

Posted at May 26, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• @mmcmahill thanks, it’s a caricature by Nitrozac (http://tinyurl.com/3dfdm8). Jordan got one too, but he’s too cool for Twitter. #
• Hanging out in Avon - waiting to hear from Mike and Jena #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-25

Posted at May 25, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• @mmcmahill imo, the one you’ve got right now is awesome #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-24

Posted at May 24, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Working in Avon. Do NOT use freecreditreport.com - they may have a catchy jingle but they charge you $15 / mo if you don’t cancel #
• Playing WoW again. At Diggle’s house, we’re probably heading to Bill’s soon… #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-23

Posted at May 23, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Getting my hair cut then meeting with Jordan in Geneseo #
• Barber is running a bit behind - going to have even less time in Geneseo. Waiting to hear from Spence about Crittenden. #
• Don’t have to drive to Rochester today #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-22

Posted at May 22, 2008 11:59 pm | In Twitter | By Ben Woodruff

• Back home - good night. About to finish watching an episode of Weeds then hit the hay. #
• Checking out of the dorm - kind of depressing #
• Angio was SLOW today, everyone take the day off? Back home now. Hopefully putting a deposit down at Crittenden tomorrow with Spencer. #

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